In 2005 the ATW completed work on Forest Noise, designed by Ian Woo, in preparation for an exhibition to be held at Singapore Tyler Print Institute entitled The Art of Collaboration: Masterpieces of Modern Tapestry.

Singapore-based Woo’s abstract paintings are characterized by both their visual complexity, and also paradoxically by their simple thoughtfulness. Woo frequently alludes to the everyday, visually depicting gestures, transient moments and thoughts.

Speaking of the design, Woo noted that it “is a kaleidoscopic work informed by fractured compositions of paint and text activities that simulate disturbances in the midst of the painting’s horizontal suspensions.”

The design for Forest Noise incorporates fractured sections of text juxtaposed against more organic imagery. It seems that it is the ‘clash’ or opposition of forms that conveys Woo’s investigation of the “memory and essence of the forest… and the city,or the differing sounds, memories and sensations of urban and natural space.”

Ian Woo’s work has been exhibited and collected widely by Australian and international galleries and museums.