Singapore Arts Club

04/01/2023

Congratulations Tiffany Loy for the opening of your show . Congratulations Art Outreach on your renewal via a new space in the barracks. Happy Art Week folks.

28/10/2022

Opening tomorrow at but also a Halloween Art Day about at the district.

The Tales of the Metamorphosis of the Unnamed is an exhibition that brings an overview to the breadth of Geraldine Lim’s budding practice, spanning from drawings to sculpture, as well as early experiments into an NFT artwork of animation and video. A series of recent drawings and paintings are on view, which continue to reflect her characteristic style and motifs of creatures that seem to form a discontinuous chain of enigmatic tales. Her narratives take inspiration from everyday life that innocuously weave together ordinary scenarios with the imagined, expressing a somewhat fantastical and uncanny world of her own. The Tales of the Metamorphosis of the Unnamed evokes a wide-eyed innocence that hints at something grotesque, yet paradoxically strives towards a sense of solace in her peculiar and fabled world.

21/04/2022

The Sovereign Art Foundation (SAF) today announces names of the shortlisted finalists for The 2022 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, the 18th edition of Asia’s most prestigious prize for contemporary artists.
Finalists in the running for this year’s Prize hail from 16 countries and regions across Asia-Pacific. Amongst the finalists, 27 artists have been shortlisted for the first time.

Congratulations to the following incredible artists from Singapore:

1. Alvin Ong - Staycation, oil on canvas, 151 x 120 cm
2. Boo Sze Yang - We Didn’t Start the Fire, oil on linen, 155 x 125 cm
3. Robert Zhao - And A Great Sign Appeared (Things from the Heat), archival pigment print, 101 x 123 cm
4. Sarah Choo Jing - 156 Emerald Hill, disc print, 150 x 85 cm

The showcase will run from 26 - 29 May 2022 at Art Central Hong Kong.

09/04/2022

Aki Hassan is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose practice shifts between drawing, printed matter, sculpture and installation. They are invested in how forms, materialities and objects encounter one another in both concrete and metaphorical terms. Through carefully placed forms and object installations, Aki observes their interrelations and interdependence through a play in balance and proximity. The activities and vocabularies revealed in this process continues to fuel and ground Aki’s practice. They see their art practice as a process and tool to reflect on existing support systems (or lack thereof); to locate strength, shifts and imbalances in exchange.

Picture above is a glimpse of Aki Hassan showing their recent research and developments at their studio residency in Singapore Art Museum (ft. Californian artist who happened to be in town that day) - it is always a treat to see their sculptures in person!

Thank you for having us!

02/04/2022

Pallavi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Singapore. Pallavi is also the thematic line of a song in Carnatic music, consisting of: ‘pa’ - phrase; ‘lla’ - tempo; ‘vi’ - variation. She is currently showcasing new works at her studio, displaying a recent breakthrough in her 2D practice. Tomorrow is the last day, so come through! Information below 👇🏽

Baring Teeth
Selected drawings by Pallavi
Curated by Hilary Yeo
On till this Sunday, 3 April, 6pm
DM for the address

19/03/2022

“You have to push the doors to discover a bit more about Singapore.”
Marie Dailey on her photographers. Marie has been in 16 years and loves the richness and rituals of Singapore and is full of content for her photography. She has two lovely books 2020 and 2021 available and bookstore.

17/03/2022

Clarice Ng () is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the intimacy that exists within the artist-audience relationship by producing interactive installations, books and ceramics. She is interested in facilitating experiences centred around vulnerability, solitude and human connection through manipulating text, sound, social and spatial elements into visual forms. Considering the audience as a central part of her practice, she prioritises participation, engagement and sees the audience as a co-author in fully realising her works.

Her latest work “Tender Observations of the Self” is now on view at - tomorrow 18 March is the last day to view the show, so don’t miss it!

Suspended in an aural space, not bound by physical preconceptions of the other – TOTS is an interactive sound piece that invites the listener to engage in a moment of attentiveness to their own bodies. In gazing inward to our instinctive physical sensations, expressions and reactions, we are able to nurture a deeper connection and understanding of our subconscious state of mind. Participants are invited to engage in conversation by listening to the pre-recorded audio on the cassette tape, to which they can record their own voice notes in response.

08/03/2022

Happy International Women’s Day! In honor of today and in the spirit of , we want to share a few illustrations by Singapore-based artist Cassandra Sim (), experimental digital collages of brilliant female figures, past and present, that celebrate their accomplishments in history.

The works shown here, in order of appearance, are portraits of: Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer; Fatima al-Fihri, Arab scholar and founder of the oldest university in the world; Fe Del Mundo, a pediatrician who shaped the modern child healthcare system in Philippines; and Katie Bouman, who led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes in 2019. Cassie hopes to revive this series starting this year, this time focusing on women from Southeast Asia now that she has come back home.

More about the artist: Cassie Sim is a gallery associate and illustrator who loves to tell stories, whether in the form of humorous comics or epic drawings. After graduating with a BFA in Illustration and History of Art in the United States, she worked in Boston as an arts writer and teacher for a while before returning home and joining a contemporary art gallery that focuses on elevating Southeast Asian artists.

23/02/2022

Calvin Tay at his exhibition “Taking Routes” set in Singapore’s oldest HDB estate Queenstown and where his grandparents lived, where he interviews and then traces the routes residents take and repeat daily. These steps now memorialized by Tay with his sculptures aptly made in his signature glue or adhesive as the estate is now “enbloc” to pave the way for the new. Show is open for one more week. See art, visit old estate before bye bye - calendly sign up here -> http://www.clvnty.com/taking-routes/.

02/02/2022

Fyerool Darma L♠nd$¢♠pΞ$: Exhibition Programmes - https://mailchi.mp/yeoworkshop/fyerool-darma-lndp-exhibition-programmes-5754136

05/01/2022

S.E.A Focus - Showcase of Art from Southeast Asia -

Venue: Tanjong Pagar Distripark, 39 Keppel Road Tickets are S$10 each (for multiple entries) and available for purchase here.  *We are able to invite a selected number of VIPs to attend preview and programmes. If you would like to be nominated, kindly email us here.

24/11/2021

This Saturday "Reimagining the Body Politic in Southeast Asia" - https://mailchi.mp/yeoworkshop/this-saturday-reimagining-the-body-politic-in-southeast-asia-5689148