The work of 11 artists in a single show

Cheng Yen Pheng’s ‘No Colour’ has children’s drawings presented in colourful stitching contrasting with black and white figures. Photos: The Star/Sam Tham

It was 30 years ago when Ivan Lam first held the quilt his grandmother made in his hands. In his family, this was a rite of passage of sorts, with each child in the family getting a quilt when they turned 12 years old, painstakingly made from scraps of cloth left over from her night job as a seamstress.

When Lam outgrew his quilt – “it couldn’t cover my legs anymore,” he relates – it was carefully vacuum-packed and placed in storage where it waited...until the day serendipity struck.