Patrick Ng Kah Onn Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1932 - d. 1989

Patrick Ng Kah Onn was a prodigy of the Wednesday Art Group founded by Peter Harris, and held the post of secretary. He held his first solo at the British Council in Kuala Lumpur in March 1963 and in 1966, his work was selected for the Arts of Malaysia exhibition at the Commonwealth Institute in London. At that time, he was already in London where he studied first at the Chelsea College of Art and Design (now the Hammersmith College) in 1964-65, and then the Wimbledon and Southlands College of Education in 1966-68. He stayed put in London and taught at Hammersmith before he died of liver cancer in 1989. In Malaysia, Patrick Ng had a brief teaching spell at the Methodist Girls School in Kuala Lumpur and his alma mater, Victoria Institution. His brother-in-law, Peter Cocquerel in an interview with Ooi Kok Chuen, revealed that Patrick had only returned once in 1970, for a short visit. He added that Patrick Ng later became more interested in music, opera and films.