From 23 October 2019 – 20 January 2020, visit established British sculptor, Emma Rodgers, first exhibition in Singapore.

Rodgers’ works are one of the most sought after and highly collectable in Britain today. She has also worked with Marvel Studios to design and create sculptures for the sets of Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Rodgers has exhibited worldwide, including Victoria & Albert Museum UK, Stricoff Fine Art Gallery New York, Royal Academy of Art UK, Collect at Saatchi Gallery UK, SOFA Chicago & New York, Wei Ling Gallery Kuala Lumpur & Singapore, Art Paris at Grande Palais Paris and Alice Mogabgab Gallery Beirut. She has also exhibited her works and lectured at Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University to share her passion and knowledge.

Get an exclusive look at Spiritus — a bronze horse sculpture specially created by Rodgers’ first Singapore exhibition, and is inspired by the horse’s inner strength and its ability to overcome obstacles in life and pursue goals. The horse gave people freedom and to express this, the series of horses are designed to charge by, with glimmers of riders, some with full capes billowing in the wind and others just a grasp of the reign.

Each horse is hand-sculpted, casted in bronze and embellished with gold details. This masterpiece is the only one in the world.

Other limited edition sculptures on display at Royal Plaza on Scotts’ lobby include Raging Bull (last available piece of the series), Mother & Child (bronze monkeys sculpture) and Bear.

Rodgers is dedicating 30% of the sales from the exhibition to Sing’theatre’s “Sing Me A Story @ NUH”, a community outreach programme and site-specific project that brings songs, music and storytelling straight to the beds at the paediatric wards at National University Hospital (NUH). The Cultural Matching Fund (CMF), established by Singapore’s Ministry of Culture, Community, and Youth will provide dollar-for-dollar matching grants for the contributions.

For high res images of the sculptures, please click here
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A Review for Emma Rodgers
By David Whiting, Art Critic and Writer
Emma Rodgers’ art gets straight to the core of her subject. She really inhabits the spirit of her creatures, just as they inhabit hers. It is about the flesh and bone beneath the skin, pulsing visceral forms that express the physicality and raw energy of the animal world. There is something dark about this vision too – nature at its most untamed. Her creative process involves not only great technical skill and acute observation, but powerful intuition and imagination. This is what makes Emma’s work so fresh and alive.

Emma has pioneered new boundaries for age-old mediums of clay and bronze pushing them to the edge of their elasticity to create powerful, challenging, delicate, tender, disturbing and yet ethereally beautiful statuary. She has deliberately abandoned the solidity of form traditionally associated with both classical and modern sculptural movements enabling her to move into original realms of statement by omission.

Her work, whilst solid, has at times a gossamer lightness that can make it appear sketched rather than cast or moulded.
And the constant genius of her exoskeletal forms is that they always depict what can’t be seen but is transversely present: the life force that may be called soul, chi, spirit or chakra.

About Royal Plaza on Scotts
Royal Plaza on Scotts Singapore (RP), an award-winning business hotel located in Orchard area, unveils its new look after an extensive renovation. Watch out for the pops of colours and accents of local heritage around the hotel. Wall pieces of Singapore’s old shophouses add a nostalgic yet contemporary graphic element to the scheme. RP is the first hotel in Singapore to provide free mobile data with pocket WIFI for guests to surf on-the-go. Guests can also pop in to the Internet lounge and well-equipped gymnasium at any time of the day with 24-hour access.
http://www.royalplaza.com.sg

About Sing’theatre
Sing’theatre is recognised in the Singapore scene as a musical theatre specialist. Beyond the traditional stage, Sing’theatre brings music to the community through its various outreach programmes at hospitals and provides training to musical theatre lovers from all walks of life through its academy, upholding its mission to perform for a better society. Sing’theatre is a registered charity.