Singapore Artists' BioUrich Lau
Born in 1975, Singaporean visual artist Urich Lau Wai-Yuen holds a Master of Fine Art degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) and is currently working as an art lecturer in Singapore. He works with the media of photography, print-media, video and installation, and has worked and exhibited in Singapore and abroad, including Thailand, Indonesia Australia. He has also shown in Japan (Fashion Drawing Biennale 2004, Wakita Museum Of Art), China (Scratch: China-Singapore Digital Image Art Exhibition, 798 Factory Beijing), and Yugoslavia (Real Presence 03, Museum of May 25th). He also extends his art practice in working and collaborating with other artists in exhibitions and projects.
Haman Hussin
Harman Hussin (born 1973) is a Singaporean who graduated with honours from Bachelor of Arts Degree program of Central England University conducted at LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts. He is an active member of APAD (Association of Artist of Various Resources)
In 2005, Harman was one of the 10 selected Singaporean artists who participated in the LabCulture Singapore programme. Based on a successful residency model from the UK, developed by artists for artists, the programme is presented in Singapore for the very first time by The Substation and PVA MediaLab.
Having majored in Multimedia Art as an undergraduate makes him as a multimedia artist and essentially as an artist who has a hat-on as a filmmaker.
Ella Magee
I grew up on the Isle of Man and left at the age of 18yrs to study at Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus. I received my B.A Hons in Visual and Performance Arts from the University Gloucestershire, England. During my B.A, I received a scholarship to study 2 semesters of Art History at McPherson College, Kansas, U.S. Since completing my B.A, I have worked in the film industry. I hope that my deceptively simple artwork reveals fundamental truths about human existence, emotions and interactions. I am currently broadening my perspective and developing my artist and cultural knowledge by studying in Singapore.
Cheng Guang Feng
Born in 1983 from Shenyang China, Guang Feng graduated in 2002 with Bachelor of Fine Art from Beijing. He moved to Singapore in 2003 to continue his art practice and has also exhibited in the China Art Triennale 2005. He is also the co-founder of All-2 Experimental Art Factory based in Shenyang, inaugurated in 2005.
Jason Lim
Jason Lim was born in Singapore in 1966. He holds a BA (Hons) from Central St Martins College of Art & Design, U.K. and a MFA from Royal Melbourne Institute Technology University, Australia. He makes ceramics sculptures, installation art, videos and performance art. Lim has had several solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including Australia and Japan. He has participated in numerous group shows in Germany and The Philippines. Lim has been invited to present performance art in many international performance festivals in Thailand, Japan, Poland, Vietnam and Greenland. He has been invited to take up residency work period in Japan, The Netherlands, Australia and The U.S.A.
Lim was co-Artistic Director of Future of Imagination 2, an international performance art meeting held in Singapore in 2004. Lim has organized and created various platforms for experimental art practitioners to meet and collaborate. Lim was short listed to represent Singapore in the 52nd Venice Biennale. His recent projects include Wolves in Winter at the South London Gallery and a residency at PVA, Bridport, England.
Jeanette Ng
Jeanette was schooled in zoology and initially worked at a children’s books publisher. After that she moved into television and film. She picked up video editing on the side and is trying to practice that now. She is pro-conservation; believes in efficiency and also constantly looks out for aesthetically brilliant visuals and sounds.
Lee Wen
Associated with Artists Village, Singapore activities since 1989, and later forged a distinguished individual practice, Lee’s installations and performances often expose and question the ideologies and value systems of individuals as well as social structures working into different environments, countries and testing shifting contexts. He is an Associate Artist with the Substation and an Honorary member of the Artists Village. Since 2000, he has been participating with Black Market International, an international performance art group. In 2003 Lee started to organize “The Future of Imagination”, an international performance art meeting which includes forum, documentation and presentation of performance art in Singapore.
Munirah Ahmad
Singaporean video artist, Munirah Ahmad was born in 1983 and holds a Diploma in Media Art from LaSalle SIA College of the Art. She is currently pursuing a Diploma in Art Education in National Institute of Education (NIE) and working as a trainee teacher. Her videos and installations had been exhibited in 2 exhibition venues in Singapore. She has shown in Earl Lu Gallery (Full of Sound and Fury, 2004 and New Contemporaries, 2005) and Plastique Kinetic Worms (Infiltrate: Collaboration with Christian Janskowski and 6 other artists, 2004). She also works within the area of interactive art and other new media art forms.
Roger Lee
My love for photography started some 10 years ago. Living in a 'concrete forest' has helped me appreciate the beauty of the natural. Now in the reverse my four years living in Australia's Natural state, Tasmania, has helped me appreciate the architectural beauty of my island city-state homeland.
Architectural photography has been my developing passion for the past 5 years. This series and moving images identifies how I believe people might in the future use current structures to create a new living environment. I ask the viewer to imagine how these new spaces can be inhabited.
Willie Koh
Willie Koh is trained in Architecture and has been making short films since 2003. His shorts were screened at The Substation, the Plastique Kinetic Worms Gallery (as part of their annual arts festival, where he is also the co-curator for the film segment), the Singapore History Museum and the 1St InDPanda International Short Film Festival in Hong Kong. He was the artist-in-residence in April 2004 at Studio 106 under the LaSalle-SIA College of the Arts. Other than directing and writing his own shorts, he was also involved as producer and cinematographer for other shorts.
Besides film, he has also experimented with installation art and had several group exhibitions at Plastique Kinetic Worms Gallery. He is recently awarded the MDA Media Education scholarship (2005) to pursue his Advanced Diploma in Film Production at Ngee Ann
Polytechnic.
Zhuang Wubin
Zhuang Wubin graduated with a Journalism degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in the year when America was busy liberating Iraqi oil fields. Based in Asia, Wubin hopes to document the majority world away from stereotypes.
As a photographer, he is particularly interested the nuances of daily life. His work has been published on WERK, LINO (Australia/New Zealand), zonezero.com (Mexico/US) and Rhythms Monthly (Taiwan). He has also exhibited in cities like Jakarta, Dhaka (Chobi Mela III) and Singapore.
As a writer, Wubin is interested in different topics, particularly Asian photography and cinema. He has profiled photographers and filmmakers like Shahidul Alam, Oscar Motuloh, Hou Hsiao Hsien and Vimukthi Jayasundara for Visual Arts (Indonesia), Contemporary (UK), Asian Art News (HK) and South China Morning Post.
19th - 28th May 2006
To create an illusion in real spaces and encourage personal, stimulating memories and restructure irritation.
