Goh Silk’s inspiration for this piece began when she found old photos of her Dad, a taboo topic in her household. At that time, Goh was working on the topic of avoidance and isolation. Struck with a need that she had avoided for over seven years, she attempted to find ways to de-isolate this topic […]
Read more "The words (Un)spoken"As a full-time working mother to two young children, with the experience of disturbed rest for the past four years, it has been quite a challenge for Grace Cheng to find time for herself. But on weekends when her children are asleep, she chooses to stay awake and get lost in art-making, as it is […]
Read more "Moonrise"The 3 of a Kind collective is inspired to work on an installation centred on growth and self-reflection. They want to evoke the elements of retrospection and introspection, getting the audience to engage with the artwork by looking within, reflecting on the past and thinking about the future. by 3 of a Kind collective (Ruhernie Binte Abu Yamin, […]
Read more "Retrospection x Introspection"You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. This was the quote Shen Jiaqi used as her muse for this series of work. In The color of apathy 忘物的颜色, she surfaces the weight of emotional weariness and mental toll experienced by teachers throughout the years of selfless contributions. Contrasting the visuals of bright […]
Read more "The color of apathy 忘物的色彩"While most of us have spent more than fifteen years in school, many of our memories have dwindled to a brief moment in time, akin to the fleeting nature of shadows and light. In Schools.Shadows.Stories, Arion Harper Lai and Mohammad Zabid Jabar use abstract photography to capture the distinct moments of school life. Abstraction allows them […]
Read more "School.Shadows.Stories"Feel free to leave your answers in the comments below, or on the STAR Facebook page. Check back on 1 March 2019 to have some sneak peeks at the works of aedge 2019’s teacher-artists!
Read more "MOMENT"“The fascinating thing about both HCI’s high school and college fine art studios is that their layouts are exact reflections of each other.” Transiting from Junior College to High School in Hwa Chong Institution, the College studio became increasingly unfamiliar to Ong Xi Wei Grace over the course of 2018. Simultaneously, as she began spending […]
Read more "|reflect"There are two distinct words for time in Greek: kairos and chronos. Kairos refers to a subjective time that is made sense of by the individual, whereas chronos refers to an objective time measured in hours, minutes and seconds. As we become better at counting minutes (through increasingly accurate clocks) are we getting better at […]
Read more "Time — Timing"There are many types of spaces in this world: physical, virtual, and perhaps even dimensional. However, all shapes and sizes do not matter except the ones which are dear to us. Spaces which make us real, spaces which inspire us, spaces which lift us up. In Home, The Neo Generation wants to present their personal […]
Read more "Home"In A Long Shot, Lim Mui Hoon Amanda explores the concept of waiting. Waiting — waiting for raw food to be cooked, for clothes to be washed, for her body to travel from one place to another. As a test of Lim’s patience and endurance, she decided to use a long shot to capture this mundane […]
Read more "A Long Shot"Time and tide wait for no one. As time passes, moments are gone forever. Past. If you were not present, you will not be able to relive that exact moment in time. This collaborative performative art piece will build upon and across moments in time, driven by both the collective’s intentional choices and unintentional coincidences. […]
Read more "The im|perfect misadventure"A place is just a place, but we ascribe different, often opposing meanings to it. Lim Jia Ning Michelle wants to express the tensions that occur between place and person that tend to exist in our minds, when we find ourselves inhabiting a place that we may or may not want to be in. Perhaps […]
Read more "Untitled (Anywhere / Nowhere Else But Here)"Students are required to ‘bun up’ their hair whenever they enter any special rooms especially the Art Studios. Inspired by the way the students personalise this ‘hair bun’ and how they interpret this guideline, Buns & Tables explores the relationships of how students ‘bun up’ their hair in accordance with their personalities. by Muhammad Nasiruddin Bin Abdul Razak […]
Read more "Buns & Tables"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ― Arthur Koestler Click here to sign up for the Visual Journaling Sharing Session. Click here to sign up for the Experimental Techniques in Watercolour Portraits workshop. Click here to sign up for the Panel Discussion […]
Read more "Fringe Activities Signups"Feel free to leave your answers in the comments below, or on the STAR Facebook page. Check back on 21 February 2019 to have some sneak peeks at the works of aedge 2019’s teacher-artists!
Read more "MINUTE"Chances deals with Ng Siew Kuan’s contemplation of the falling leaves that she encountered on her evening walks along Jalan Pelikat Park Connector. Its premise is based on the game of chance. In making the prints, Ng was not too bogged down with making accurate registration or inking, choosing instead to accept any imperfections. Ng believes […]
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