work on the 115-year-old national monument, which was completed in September 2000 at a cost of $12 million. In 2002, Chong was commissioned by the city of Penticton to create a piece of public art, The Romp, a bronze statue of children playing. In 2011, Chong was commissioned by Asia-Pacific Breweries, in celebration of their 80th anniversary, to create a bronze sculpture, Chang Kuda, featuring six boys riding piggy-back. The $200,000 piece was unveiled in 2011 at the Swan Lake in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. The Bamboo Garden at the National Library building featured nine of Chong's bronze and marble figures of readers and fantastical creatures. The garden was opened for public use in April 2012. In 2014, Chong was awarded the Cultural Medallion. Eighteen sculture pieces from Chong are part of Singapore's National Collection of art and displayed in the National Art Gallery when it opens in 2015. Personal life Chong married to Pang Guek Cheng, a journalist, in 1972 and have 2 children together. In 1989, Chong moved his family to Merritt, British Columbia, Canada for a slower pace of life and his children are not coping well with Chinese classes in school. Gallery Major exhibitions References External links Official Website of Sculptor Chong Fah Cheong 1946 births Living people Singaporean people of Chinese descent Singaporean artists Singaporean sculptors Recipients of the Cultural Medallion