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English Calligraphy Competition
An Exclusive Interview with the Q: What made you join the
competition?
Champion
A: Well, I am a member of the

Western Calligraphy Club, so I got
Reported by:
JR2Z(2) Ong Chen Xi to know about this competition
pretty early on. I joined mainly

because I thought it was a fun
From the 7th to 15th of July, the Western Calligraphy Club organized little opportunity to put my skills

a calligraphy competition held over Google Forms. Its goal was to get to the test.
people interested in the art, and was open to both club members and
non-members alike. Among other instructions, participants could only I also value other people’s

use watercolour or brush pens to make pieces in the brush lettering style. opinions and use them to

improve. While calligraphy does
The competition instructions have its general rules (like how

As seen above, the Junior category participants could choose from upstrokes are written with less
the sentences “Thank you to the healthcare workers at the frontline” pressure and downstrokes are

and “Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you”. Meanwhile the Senior written with more), it’s also a

category could choose from the sentences “We are not living in fear, we form of art, and art is subjective.
are living in faith” and “We are stronger in the places we have been broken”. For my own piece, I would love to
hear people’s opinions on what I
The Junior category winner’s piece could’ve done to improve it, like

The competition was divided into the Junior and Senior categories, suggestions on how to fill in the

and its results came out on the 26th. weird little space between the

words “we have” at the bottom,
To learn more about the inner workings of calligraphy, we interviewed or how they would’ve decorated

the first-place winner of the Senior category, Chelsea Chua Si Yu from the other empty spaces in the
Sr2ScD. piece.

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