Executed on a grand scale, and painted with a nuanced monochromatic palette, Eric Chan renders a figure looking out at paper boats, reminiscent of a film still. This work is from the Wanted: Possession And Rejection Series created in 2011. The works from this series are based on the artist’s observations on issues of open-ness, freedom, resilience and tenacity, with compositions informed by photographic, video-graphic and filmic aesthetics. Eric Chan graduated with a MFA at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2000 after his BFA and studies at the Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore in 1996. He won the Juror’s Choice award in the Asean Art Awards in 2002, and a Highly Commended mention in the UOB Painting of the Year 2003. He inaugurated the BMW corporate art series with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute in 2007. His auction record was set in The Edge 2013 auction for a work, Ingres, which sold for a premium of RM33,000, while another work, It’s There, It’s Still There, sold at the Henry Butcher November 2013 auction for a premium of RM25,300. His solos include in-Definite Defiance, Chan Hampe Galleries, Singapore (2016), Flaunting (2000), Out-Sight (Hong Kong, 2002), Balik Kampung (Kuala Lumpur, 2012), Nightfalls (2006), Another Place Another Time (2007), Fine Displacement (Hong Kong, 2008), The Romantics Of Betrayal (2010), Wanted: Possession And Rejection (2011).