About

Christabel Png (b. 1993, Singapore) is a London-based artist working across photography, installation, and sound. Her practice examines how reality is structured, and how it shifts through perception, behaviour, and interaction.

Trained in user experience design and informed by behavioural psychology, she previously developed socio-technical systems for the Singapore Government, where her work was recognised with the Global Service Design Award (Helsinki, 2024). This background continues to shape her artistic approach, where systems are not depicted, but reconfigured through material and process.

Working with photographic fragments drawn from lived environments, Png constructs visual fields that exist between states. Her images extend beyond the limits of photography, approaching painterly abstraction without fully resolving into it. This unresolved condition reflects a broader concern with how identity, meaning, and structure are continuously negotiated rather than fixed.

Her work considers how small perceptual shifts propagate through larger systems, revealing that what appears stable is often constructed, and therefore open to transformation.

Png’s practice positions the viewer within this instability, not as an observer, but as a participant in systems already in motion. Her work has been exhibited in Singapore and London, including a work currently on loan to the Republic of Singapore Air Force.