The obvious question following the title is, Why green? Green can be jealousy, sickly and conversely, healthy, but in Gan Tee Sheng’s early works playing on an absurd comic-tragedy, the characters with their masks need help. There seems to be a tolerated perversity in the disengaged human forms. The quandary is perhaps reflected by the off-white apparition staring vacuously in space not only figuring out what to make of it, but what to do. These are the little dramas running the emotional gamut of fear, repression and desire. This work was first shown in a group exhibition at HOM Art Trans in August 2013, before it made a reprise appearance in the Young Contempo Showcase II exhibition organised by Curate Henry Butcher at Galeri Prima, Kuala Lumpur, in December 2017. The year, 2011, was a banner year for Gan Tee Sheng for he won two of the most highly coveted awards, UOB Painting of the Year and the Malaysian Emerging Artists award, and catapulted him to the cream of young artists. To show that it was no fluke, Gan made history when he clinched the UOB Top Award again in 2013, this time in the Established Artists category. He was a Fukuoka Asian Art Museum artist-in-resident in 2014 besides a six-month residency at HOM Art Trans. He took part in Art Stage Singapore and Art Busan both in 2016, Art Gwangju 2015, Art Kaoshiung (2015, 2016), and the Art Expo Malaysia from 2013 to 2017. He is a graduate of the Dasein Academy of Art in 2008. In the Henry Butcher (April 2017) Art Auction, his oil on canvas, Family, sold for a premium of RM31,360.