CORE contemporary art

Specimen Garden

Pamela’s sculptural work signals a fresh and vital voice in Malaysia’s ultra-contemporary sculpture movement — one that fuses art, design, and spatial emotion into a unified language. With a background in architecture, Pamela was trained not just to design buildings, but to reimagine how humans might live, feel, and experience space in the future. This forward-thinking approach — taught to her during her architectural studies — continues to shape her entire creative career, including her well-known commissioned works. Her first solo exhibition makes this influence unmistakable: here, artistic expression and architectural thinking converge seamlessly.

Deeply inspired by her underwater experiences while snorkeling, Pamela transforms the sensory immersion of coral reefs into sculpture. She recreates this feeling of being surrounded — enveloped by form, light, and texture — through laser-cut metal structures softened by sand coatings and luminous bead-like elements. The results are both fluid and precise, natural and fabricated, echoing coral forms through a post-digital lens. These works don’t simply depict nature; they embody it, offering viewers an emotional architecture that can be felt with the body as much as seen with the eyes.

In bridging the disciplines of sculpture, ecological memory, and speculative design, Pamela’s work embodies a new direction for Malaysian sculpture — one where material innovation, emotional depth, and future-living concepts are intertwined. Her sculptures are not just static objects, but spatial experiences — bold proposals for how contemporary art can build feeling, not just form.