CLINTON NG

Instinctual Movements

MICHAEL YOUNG

For the past sixteen years, Clinton Ng has been recognized as one of Australia’s leading gastroenterologists. He is usually found consulting in one of Sydney’s several hospitals. So it is somehow hard to imagine him sweeping dust off an Eko Nugroho sculpture in his off-duty hours at home, which was the scene I came across when I met him in late November of last year. The work by Indonesian artist Nugroho is Kepala&Tubuhku Telah Berbunga Untukmu (2009), which Ng purchased in 2013 from Arario Gallery in Seoul; his translation is “I Sprout Flowers for You.” It is a life-size sculpture of a man on all fours leaning over a skull, which is in turn connected to tubes and a leafy diadem sprouting from the man’s head. “I think he is…

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