Samantha Lo, also known as the Sticker Lady, is going places.

Last year, she was sentenced to 240 hours of community service within 12 months and a day reporting order for three months.

Her crime? Slogans she spray-painted and pasted on roads and traffic lights were considered vandalism.

However, she gained prominence because her case started a dialogue as to what constituted art and she went on to collaborate with organisations such as the Singapore Zoo and Sentosa as her works were in demand.

At one point, she even received a $9,000 art commission.

In other words, that's like getting convicted for wrong-doing and still get paid for it, nonetheless.

"Affordable" Art Fair

At the Affordable Art Fair at the F1 Pit Building that opened on Nov. 20 this year, she is selling her new series of five paintings featuring bottles of cultured milk for $8,000 (top picture).

The paintings of cultured milk bottles are marked with her wry, ironic humour. The labels read: "More cultured than you will ever be!"

These works on canvas mark Lo's debut as a visual artist and her move off the streets.

Sticker Lady was previously selling something similar -- 3D cultured milk bottles at $50 each, which on hindsight, seem like a steal comparatively.

The message of this series is meant to poke fun at art as high culture, and people like artists and art-buyers who associate with art as a status symbol.

So, Lo's cultured milk pieces are making a statement -- precisely because two of the five sets of $8,000 paintings already have buyers.

Irony is a commodity that only some can afford. At an "Affordable" Art Fair.

Great.

Details

The Affordable Art Fair

When: From today till Sunday

Tickets: $12 for adults (if booked via Sistic); $8 for students and senior citizens; $15 (at the door).

Where: F1 Pit Building, 1 Republic Building, Singapore 038975

Samantha Lo's photo from here

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