The timed auction ends Thursday April 16th at 8:00pm. Whoever holds the highest bid at the auction closing time wins.
Ah Min Leong
Cat on the Roof, 2026
Oil on canvas
Height 67 cm x Width 51 cm
Artwork is stretched and ready to hang & comes with a certificate of authenticity
Starting Bid: $1,100
Only in Kuching would you find a bicycle parked on top of a shop awning as though it were the most natural thing in the world. There it sat — balanced on that narrow flat roof, its dark frame silhouetted against the upper storey windows of the old shophouse behind it, creepers trailing down through the air around it with unhurried ease. Working in oils, I was drawn to the layered quality of the scene: the graphic black of the bicycle against the pale awning edge, and then that luminous bank of glass behind — the green-framed windows catching reflections of sky and courtyard and leaf in shifting blues and teals, a kind of accidental painting within the painting. The whole composition sits in a quiet Kuching afternoon where nothing is especially urgent, things end up where they end up, and the city's particular genius for improvised, unself-conscious life is simply there to be seen — if you happen to look up.
Artist Bio: Min Leong is a painter born in Kuching, Malaysia and based in Sydney. His work centres on landscape from Malaysian forests to Australian coastlines. His paintings demonstrate a confident, expressive approach to colour — often pushing beyond naturalistic palettes into saturated purples, pinks, and oranges that capture the intense light of the Australian environment.
Leong gravitates toward subjects that emphasise the vertical and the immersive: towering eucalypts seen from below, dense rainforest canopies, and expansive vistas from elevated viewpoints. His work conveys a direct engagement with place and an interest in how light transforms the familiar into something vivid and heightened.