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About the
selected artists
Andree Weschler
was formerly a French language teacher who has pursued studies of
ine Arts at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Curtin University of
Technology of Western Australia, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de
Paris. She studied Western painting and Chinese painting but in her
practice Andree Weschler has refused to limit herself to any
particular media. Any media is possible, but she concedes that much
of the approach of an artist towards the media can be repetitive. It
represents what she calls ¡°the bad habits¡± of an artist. She
therefore typically works and combines:
Drawing-Installation-Video-Photography-Sound-Performance.
Andree Weschler is
interested in the idea of a body socially cleaned and purified, a
body treated as a wax that is shaped up, modeled and finally molded
into a social form. Andree Weschler has mainly exhibited in Asia,
notably in Singapore, Japan and Korea.
Louise Dahl-Lindvall
was born in
Sweden in 1983. She has always had an interest in art, but it took
until the year after my high school graduation for her to realize
this was not just another hobby to engage myself and my spare time
in. She started out in printmaking and then moved on to painting and
photography. During my one year in Kyrkeruds folkhögskola (Sweden),
she experienced breakthrough in her practice, and also discovered
her true devotion to creativity. She was accepted into LaSalle SIA
level one painting this year, and hopes to advance further so she
can become the self supporting, independent artist she wishes to be.
Georgiana Phua
began drawing on walls as a toddler to her parents¡¯ dismay. Good for
them that she progressed to colouring and drawing on paper, leading
to the possession of her first camera, which was a prize from a
colouring competition. She delights in richness of colour, focused
details of monochromes, simplicity of everyday sightings, complex
layers of human emotions and the aging urban environment. She
graduated with a Distinction from Lasalle College of the arts in
2005 and has exhibited in many shows like ' New Wave One-Moving in
Time' at Yaddo Gallery and Eye ¨¦ City- A Visual Account of the Last
24 hours of 2003' at MICA.
Tang Ling Nah
has a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) with Distinction from Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University. In 2002, she
held her first solo exhibition, activated C, showcasing her charcoal
drawings of urban spaces in Singapore. Through her works, Tang seeks
to reflect and address the conditions of the modern city,
particularly the lack of interpersonal intimacy in urban life. In
June 2003, she travelled to Western Sydney with nine other Singapore
artists for an artists exchange project which culminated in a
collaborated exhibition titled Potluck. Besides her own art
practice, she has also coordinated several exhibitions, including
10:10, the artists exchange project co-hosted by The Substation Ltd
and Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore, and Deriving Spaces, an
affiliate project of Nokia Singapore Art 2001¨C2. Most recently, she
curated Cinepolitans: Inhabitants of a Filmic City, a visual arts
exhibition at Jendela, Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay. She is a
part-time lecturer at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore,
where she conducts the Foundation Drawing Workshop and Art History
tutorials, and Life Drawing at Diploma level. She has just recently
been selected as a finalist for the Singapore-ASEAN Art Awards 2003.
She is a winner of the Della Butcher Award 2000, and received an
Honourable Mention at the Philip Morris Singapore Art Awards 2001/2.
Two of her works were also highly commended at the 20th UOB Painting
of the Year 2001.
Marienne Yang
recently graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts (High Distinction)
from University of Tasmania, majoring in Electronic Media in 2004.
She has exhibited widely in Australia and Singapore. She is a member
of The Artist Village since 2005. Her recent show includes
'Ring around the
rosy, pocketful of posies¡' at Your Mother Gallery.
Shih Yun's
fascination for the abstract medium surfaced during her time at
Lasalle, when she first experimented with the fusion of fine arts
and contemporary design. One of her early experimental works
received acclaim as a highly commended entry for the UOB Painting of
the Year competition in 1999, which spurred her to further explore
fine arts and the abstract form. After graduating from Lasalle,
Shih Yun attended the one-year Post Baccalaureate Program (Painting)
at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Shih Yun has collaborated with artists from America and UK for the
past four years and has held numerous exhibitions in Singapore and
Australia. Some of her recent exhibitions include ¡°exit¡± in
Melbourne, Australia and ¡°NewFinds 2003" at MITA ARTrium. In
addition, she was awarded the Emerging Artist Grant from the
National Arts Council to hold her first solo exhibition titled,
¡°log:one03¡± at Block 43 Studio Gallery in 2003.
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About instinc
instinc is located
at the attic of a conservation townhouse that has been carefully
restored, originally built in the 1800s. Creating an inspirational
environment to work in, instinc has a pointed roof with high ceiling
and a large patio natural lighting, adding to the character of the
space.
Started in
November 2004, instinc is an artist-run space that aims to foster
friendships and collaborations with other artists. instinc is a
dynamic space in continuous process of creation and is committed in
exhibiting all forms of contemporary art.
The objectives of
instinct are:
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To
provide an exhibition space managed by an artist in order to
establish a vibrant environment for creative practice and dialogue.
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To
provide a space to exchange ideas and interaction for artists in the
community.
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