Portfolio

Desmond Mah

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Still Living Rent-Free, 2025, acrylic and mixed media on canvas with accompanying AI voice via QR code
(H) 126 × (W) 95 × (D) 7 cm
Voice: Philomena Cunk (text-to-audio) with free licensed use of Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie
Duration: 1 min 31 sec

Still living rent-free

The Swamp and Its Spectre, 2025
oil and mixed media on canvas with accompanying AI voice via QR code
(H) 81 x (W) 121 cm

The swamp & its spectre audio

Regalis Gemmiferus, 2024, acrylic paint on xuan paper with accompanying AI voice via QR code (H) 90 x (W) 90 cm

Regalis Gemmiferus AI Voice

Labourer No. 38, 2024, mixed media on xuan paper and bamboo accompanied by AI voice in Javanese (from Rudi Hendriatno’s text translation of Mah's poem) via QR code Open-source Gamelan music (H) 65 x (W) 26 x (D) 15 cm

Labourer No.38 AI Audio

I Secure My Place Whilst Disregarding Others (Capt. J. Cook), 2024,
acrylic paint, gold foil and mixed media on board,
(H) 90 x (W) 60 cm, Private collection NSW

Empire Builder (Private John Sainsbury), 2024
acrylic paint and mixed media on canvas
(H) 75 x (W) 50 cm

Dear Right Honourable Lord Hastings, 2024
oil and mixed media on board
(H) 60 x (W) 90 cm

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Canvas-less Paintings

Rooted resolve, no. 1, 2023 acrylic paint, mixed media, xuan paper (H) 36 x (W) 20 x (D) 15 cm

Forever enthralled, 2023 acrylic, chinese ink, mixed media, xuan paper, bamboo (H) 93 x (W) 40 x (D) 17 cm

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Automated Painting

I exist because you exist, 2022, 
synthetic polymer, wire, motorised, pir sensor, arduino
(H) 37 x (W) 19 x (D) 25 cm, cable: 2m

Currently exhibiting: Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum