April 20, 2021
Wilfred Cheah is proof that art is all in the details - and that Singapore has really got talent.
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If there s anyone who should be the poster boy for lifelong learning, it ought to be 55-year-old Wilfred Cheah.
The former commando regular, who left the Singapore Armed Forces in 1993, had a second career in interior design for almost three decades.
And now, he s in his own Phase 3 - as a miniature artist who s made the headlines (he even got the attention of PM Lee for one of his recent works, okay!) and whose works, which are primarily made of cardboard, have made us go from oh my to wow to OMFG .
February 20, 2021
They say you can take a man out of the army, but you can t take the army out of a man.
Former commando Wilfred Cheah creates intricate three-dimensional miniatures so detailed that some Facebook followers have been fooled, thinking it is the real thing.
His artwork includes the demolished National Theatre, his nostalgic two-room HDB rental home and his father-in-law s provision shop, which Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted on social media. If the thing doesn t pass (my standards), I will throw away and re-do, the 55-year-old miniature artist said, crediting the high standards and discipline to his army days.