About Sabotage (SBTG)

Mark Ong and Sue-Anne Lim are Mr and Mrs Sabotage – the dynamic husband-and-wife team behind SBTG. With an amalgamation of influences, SBTG’s works is a bricolage of punk rock and metal music, skateboarding, 80s America, military motifs, and B-grade horror movies that resonates with those growing up immersed in the subcultures of the 1980s. The appropriation of military motifs in particular, like nose art, tigerstripe camouflage, and the American flag, harks to punk’s subversion of the establishment. Yet, such delineation is complicated by Mark’s own dedicated service with the Singapore Armed Forces where he developed an interest in texture, camouflage and the masculine persona. SBTG’s artistic practice is one infused with moral courage; living by the punk and skateboarding tenet of having the freedom to be what they want, they pursued a path in visual arts independently, relying on discipline, hard work, and DIY entrepreneurialism.