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Anisah Bte Salim // Coral Primary School // Newspaper Weaving // 150cm by 150cm The art of weaving is one of the oldest suviving crafts in the world. The tradition of weaving traces back to approximately 12,000 years ago. I have been using recycled materials in my art-making and teaching. When I saw the work […]

Land Art Presentation Belize Chan, Innova Primary School // Nur Jannah,  Macpherson Primary School // Pang Chiaw Yong, Damai Secondary School // Installation // 300cm by 300cm Altering the space/environment interaction between humans/environment and work; repurposing the detritus of the place. the soul of the space could be seen/understood/contacted in the debris of the lives […]

Beryl Kwok Liwen // Victoria Junior College // Watercolour //  ‘Boat’ is a series of work depicting the loneliness of an individual in the vastness and extensiveness of life. The series experiments with how we perceive water and the state of the boat in the various changing conditions of the sea. While the conditions are […]

Brian Lee // Dunman High School // Cyanotype Installation // 22cm by 22cm by35cm The work questions the situation of the conserving heritage shophouses in Singapore and how conservation is generally seen as a reinterpretation or keeping of the actual structure and facade without efforts at conserving interior spaces and humanistic elements related to the […]

Cheong Sze-Yenn, Peicai Secondary School // Keith Ang, Jurong Secondary School // Md Nasiruddin, St Antony’s Canossian Secondary School // Video // 4 mins This work attempts to envelope the viewer in sensory manifestations of doubt by punctuating seemingly mundane episodes with questionable realities. While it spawns from diverse individual influences such as pop culture, […]

Ching Yuk Ling // Fairfield Methodist Primary School // Oil Painting // 102cm by 76cm The cyber world, fronted by social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, is eating away our human spirit rapidly. The cyber world, a non-physical space, has eroded human warmth. The physical human touch and expressions such as a smile, handshake, […]

Chua Jing Tong Catherine, Zhang Shu Hui Candy // Damai Secondary School // Colour Pencil and Watercolour// 45.7cm by 61cm This series of works is conceived out of the artists’ attempt to replace mundane motivational posters in the art studio. Inspired by the seven deadly sins, the idea is to adopt a humorous take on […]

Chun Wee San // Singapore Teachers’ Academy For The Arts // Digital Media // A series of images measuring 3cm by 3 cm “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. […]

Dawn Sim Ee Szu, Poi Ching School // Dexter Sim Yu Min, Westwood Secondary School // Grace Lee Wee Chin, Bukit View Secondary School // Tia Amelia Abdullah, Pasir Ris Primary School  // Land Art // 15cm by 15cm Our collaborative land art is made from a variety of plant materials inter-woven into shapes of […]

Diana Ghazali // Northbrooks Secondary School // Charcoal on Paper with Nails // 206cm by 270cm The homogeneous, modular designs of Housing Development Board (HDB) public housing are prominent aspects of Singapore’s topography. The orderly and regulative lifestyle of our fast-paced urban city is transposed into an aesthetic treatment: the grid-like pattern of individual units […]

Ellen Tay Wee Ling, Yishun Junior College // Er Kia Hui, Millenia Institute // Quek Jia Liang, Boon Lay Secondary School // Video // 30secs on loop This video collaboration is between three friends who had known each other since their Junior College days, sharing a similar passion for art. Created in the year before […]

Erman Abu Bakar, Swiss Cottage Secondary School // Koh Weiling, Serangoon Garden Secondary School // Tan Kway Yong, Jurongville Secondary School // Photography // 21cm by 30cm The artwork is inspired by the destruction of our natural world to make way for man-made buildings. We captured moments, in various environments, where constructions inscribe and develop […]

Fahmy Bin Said // Yishun Secondary School // Painting // 78.5cm by 155cm – 90cm by 120cm This series invites the viewer to conjure their own images. Though abstract, the artist has included subtle figurations, imposing the artist’s point of view of what he sees in the chaotic, riot of colours. Lesson Idea

Hazel Lim // Loyang Secondary School // Digital Manipulation // 30cm by 42cm My work explores my relationship with places. I am trying to express a sense of melancholy and longing for home. Influenced by Surrealism, I was interested in how memories and past feelings juxtaposed with how I experience a new place. Digital manipulations […]

Hew Soo Hun // Nanyang Junior College // Installation // 100cm by 100cm Creases, carefully ironed onto a baby’s napkin, form a radial pattern suggesting the sun. Instead of taking out the creases, the iron is used to perform the exact opposite to create an image of the sun to pay tribute the homemaker’s labour […]