Dimension: 29.7 (w) x 42.0 (h) cm | 11.7" x 16.5"
4 colour Risograph
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered
Printed on 220gsm uncoated acid-free paper
Subtle imperfections may vary
Knuckles & Notch (2025)
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Nobody quite knows how the sport of boxing came to be, but some say its prehistoric roots lie in Nubia, in what is now Ethiopia during the 6th millennium BC. Much much later when the Egyptians invaded Nubia, they adopted boxing from the locals and brought it back to Egypt, where the sport proliferated to various parts of the region such as Greece, Mesopotamia and even Rome! However the boxing we know today has evolved from 16th and 18th century prize fights from the UK.

In Singapore, boxing emerged during the inter-war period of the 1920s, with SABA, the Singapore Amateur Boxing Association, being founded in 1927. It was during this period that our first local boxing hero arose: Battling Key. Born in 1898, Tan Teng Kee was the son of a ‘sinseh’ (traditional Chinese physician), who had risen to fame very quickly after getting started, thus setting the stage for boxing in Singapore.

These days our Battling Key's can be found throwing practice punches for Asian Games, Youth Games and even the Olympics! Danisha Mathialagan for one, has become the first Singaporean boxer to qualify for the Asian Games since 1976! Let's wrap our fists, and don our gloves to give a bag thumping applause for our boxing icons.
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When most people think of sports, it’s often just an activity — motion, movement, engagement of both body and mind. But as visual artists, we see sports as much more than just that. Sports is a form of expression, a performance that utilises our strengths in ways that are fundamentally human and that cannot be replicated by machines. Every athletic moment is a voluntary decision we make to engage our body in a unified act of expression.

Echoes of the Wave presents our exploration of sports in a new light. Through our art director Djohan, who has spent much of his life participating in competitive games such as floor ball, hockey and skateboarding, we are able to approach this project with an understanding of sports. For him, staying active is an essential part of his holistic artistic practice, by granting him a deeper understanding of the human body.

Creativity, culture and leisure shape the way that we experience the world and ourselves, while sports concurrently engage the body and mind on a physical and metaphysical level. Integrating the two illustrates that art is more than just an aesthetic. It's a core expression of life itself, and serves to deepen our understanding and layers of meaning to these moments of athletic performance.

Our exhibition seeks to capture this synergy through a series of illustrations that reflect the intensity and impact of sports. By freezing a moment in time, we weave together the contrast of light and shadow, evoking a sense of tremendous movement, while the rich textures and neutral tones ground the palette in reality. These artworks speak to the way iconic sporting moments ripple outwards, creating lasting impressions that live on well after the moment has passed.

We aim through our art, to reflect the profound connection between sports and culture, and how they inspire each other by sparking dialogue, uniting communities, and transcending cultural boundaries.
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