Dawn Ng’s work across a wide range of contemporary media is unified by subtle gradations of colour, which function as a way of exploring the passage and experience of time. Since 2018, Ng has filmed and photographed stages in the disintegration of frozen blocks of coloured pigment. The Earth is an Hourglass, 2024 documents the time-adjusted melting of one such block of ice with the hypnotic effect. Her video compresses the entire 20-hour process of decomposition into a mesmerising 20 minutes.

Dawn Ng is a multi-hyphenate visual artist, who has worked across a breadth of mediums, motives and scale, including sculpture, photography, light, film, collage, painting and large-scale installations. Her practice deals with time, memory and the ephemeral.