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Ira Wati Sukaimi, Nurulhuda Mustafa // Mayflower Secondary School // Interactive Installation  This collaborative artwork is developed from a dialogue between the artists, Nurulhuda and Ira Wati, a beginning teacher of 7 months and an experienced teacher of 20 years respectively. As the dialogue flourished, both teacher-artists reconciled their differences and discovered common struggles when […]

Jasmine Tan Jia Min, BA (Arts) National Institute Of Education // Juraimy Abu Bakar, CHIJ Katong Convent // Painting // 21cm by 29cm Two artists. Two ideas. Two different generations. Two approaches. But, one artistic endeavour to symbolically represent the transition process we’re interrogating. This transition process represent our quest to navigate our way between […]

Joseph Ng Swee Seng // CHIJ Toa Payoh secondary School //Photography // 21cm by 29cm Photography as an art form in its nascent years, had been exclusive to few people due to cost and accessibility. An engineer, Steven Sasson, from Eastman Kodak invented and produced the first digital camera in 1975. Since then, the technology […]

Kanade Pooja Pramod // Hong Kah Secondary School // Mixed Media // 30cm by 30cm This artwork questions the activities going on in one’s mind when the fear of privation kicks in. The experience can be excruxiating. Glue in this work symbolises a fear of being trapped in a situation and not being able to […]

Karen Yeh // Arts Education Branch // Digital Print // 30cm by 30cm The artist wrote letters to different individuals, asking them for their personal concept of an everyday memento mori – a reminder of the transient state of our lives – in the form of an image, a text or a thing. The variety […]

Karmilah Khamis, Marie-Elena Louisa Soliano, Michelle Han Shu Qing, Md Lokman, Zaki Zulfakar // Si Ling Secondary School // Mixed Media // 100cm by 100cm by 200cm This series of five individual artworks aims to portray how individuals can co-exists and give meaning to each of our existence. Each musical receptacle serves as an orchestrated […]

Lim Hui Chi // Bukit View Secondary School //  Charcoal and Pastel // A2 ( 42cm by 59.4cm) “Cher, can I just paste a sticker on my forehead and send myself to SEAB? I am a piece of art!” What is art? Often, teachers find it difficult to define what art is to students, when […]

  Low Sok Hui // Hwa Chong Instituition // Mixed Media // 300cm by 150cm Ichigo Ichie, a term derived from Zen Buddhism and Japanese tea, captures the poetic elegance of transience. It emphasises the uniqueness of the encounters I have every day and further reminds me of the need to grasp at every opportunity […]

Lydia Lee Wei En // Northview Secondary School // Mixed Media // 45cm by 60cm In this world that we live in, natural disasters, epidemics and wars are events that are constantly heard and seen in the news. While we are the fortunate ones, there are others that suffer in pain and agony. How long […]

Nurhafizah Husin // Yuying Secondary School // Mixed Media // 84cm by 59.5cm This exploratory work explores the relationship between physical marks, sounds and journeys. I combine my memories and observations of my everyday surroundings to tell a story through abstract wondering marks. The story – and marks – continues to grow as I rely […]

Nurmasnita Md Dena // Dunman Secondary School // Mixed Media // 102cm by 76cm – 122cm by 61cm – 92cm by 92cm The word ‘Pause’ provides the conceptual frame for this artwork. As human beings, we often rush through time. In ‘Pause’, the artist creates an opportunity for viewers to suspend their own daily lives […]

Sally Hong // Yusoff Ishak Secondary School // Digital Print // 21cm by 30cm – 42cm by 60cm This work questions the value and meaning of play to our children. How much do they play? Do they play freely without any inhibitions of time, purpose and calculated outcomes? This video invites viewers to step into the […]

Shen Jia Qi // Pierce Secondary School // Oil On Canvas // 92cm By 92cm As a student, the lingering sense of uncertainty hung over every lesson together with the hopeful promise of a satisfying future. This series of work questions the exchange of compliance for prestige, and the lost of one’s imagination. Through the […]

Tay Zhiyong // Coral Secondary School // Watercolour // 80cm by 42cm North Bridge Road in 1975. The days when life was simpler, more organic and arguably better. A long line of buses fill the left lane, led by a super sports car…? What do we carry from our pasts to move ourselves forward? Lesson […]