Ju Ming's fluid forms in stone

TAIWANESE Ju Ming's sculptures are Asian art icons, thanks to his giant stone sculptures in taichi poses that he began making in the late 1970s.

Now on show at the Botanic Gardens are 15 of his works made in the 1990s to 2000, and they are much more abstract than his older works - a testament of how the 77-year-old artist continues to capture and re-interpret the human spirit and energy embodied in taichi.

"In the beginning, I was perhaps a bit more fixated with the details of the poses, but even then, the human was always in the centre of my practice," he says.