Jiang Miao & Deborah McKellar: Between Realms

This season, Whitestone Gallery Singapore introduces between realms, a captivating duo solo exhibition featuring Chinese artist Jiang Miao and Singapore-based artist Deborah McKellar. Opening on 8 November 2025, the exhibition invites audiences to step into layered worlds where the tangible and the transcendental meet.

between realms explores how spirituality and the physical presence can be inspired, intertwined, and expressed through visual art. The exhibition will explore how the intangible—our subconscious, emotions, beliefs, and natural energies—be transformed into visible form, and suggest the possibilities of the material world becoming a medium for spiritual reflection and enlightenment.

For Jiang Miao, this duality between the spiritual and the physical unfolds through her distinctive practice of layering and carving. Each layer she applies is a sensory record of her environment—the sun, wind, air, and temperature—in the moment of her creation. The choices of colour and form are intuitive, rooted in the artist’s subconscious. She then introduces carving, a technique that diverges from the traditional act of painting with brushstrokes. Instead of adding, she removes, creating depth with a carving knife on her panel. This absence of paint becomes a striking visual translation of energy, revealing the unseen yet ever-present vitality of her surroundings.