The Magic Bird by Malavika PC from Tamil Nadu
PUBLISHED March 10th, 2015 07:15 am | UPDATED June 17th, 2020 06:07 pm
Albert Einstein is believed to have said, ‘Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.’ Regardless if one is an adult or a child, that ticket to everywhere is often found stuck between the pages of a good book, but a new series of three exhibitions to be held at SPRMRKT from 26 March to 18 August will focus on the unsung heroes of the imagination – book illustrators.
The exhibitions will be held in conjunction with the Singapore launch of non-profit children’s book publisher Magicbird Publishing and organised by SPRMRKT and Galerie Steph. The series will coincide with the Asian Festival of Children’s Content happening from 30 May to 6 June.
‘Depending on where you are in the CBD, the fast and furious pace can get in the way of imagination and creativity. We hope that by showing these works – many of which are amazingly illustrated – people will be inspired,’ said SPRMRKT co-owner Quek Sue-Shan.
The series will begin with Malaysian artist and Magicbird co-founder C. K. Koh whose illustrations are influenced by manga, pop culture and Western fairy tales. C.K. has illustrated two picture books which feature his signature box-head characters. He will be followed by Malavika PC from Tamil Nadu whose illustrations are in a book by Ken Spillman, one of Australia’s most prolificwriters of children’s books. The final exhibition will be by multiple-award-winning Malaysian artist Khairul Azmir Shoib whose works have been exhibited around the world.
The exhibitions will feature a mix of the artists’ personal works and those created for Magicbird’s books. Pop-up book sales will be held at SPRMRKT on the opening weekend of each exhibition. A reading of The Magic Bird, written by Ken Spillman and illustrated by Malavika, will also be held. Under its Wisdom Club Programme, Magicbird Publishing channels its profits towards literary and reading projects.
About Malavika PC:
Malavika PC is an artist, an illustrator and a performer. Her medium in the field of fine art has always been drawing, from before she received her BFA in Ceramics from the College of Arts, Chennai in 2004, till after. She began training in drawing once again in a design studio and over the years went on to establish herself as a Children’s Book Illustrator. Driven by detail, improvisation and play, her instrument of drawing is her 0.1 Isograph Pen and colour inks that she mixes. Malavika currently lives and works from her studio near Auroville, Tamil Nadu.
This event is running from Friday, 29 May to Tuesday, 7 July at SPRMRKT.
For more information, please click [here](http://www.sprmrkt.com.sg/).
