Creative [SIN]ergy recently organised at talk for A Level AEP (Art Elective Programme) Students visiting from Singapore. These talks were held at Hillspring Lodge on Saturday 12 December 2009. The group were made up of 40 students and 4 teachers from the AEP.Creative [SIN]ergy members Angeline Yam, Brian Tan, Sarah Huijie Cai and Supei Ho were presented at the talks.
The talks were an insight to the practical and real aspect of the creative industry from people who are currently in the creative industry in the UK. This included the sharing of experience and some samples of their work.
Sarah, an AEP alumnus herself, covered aspects of a student life perusing her MA in Graphic Design, while Supei shared her experience of a post graduate Fashion Designer looking for work in the creative industry. Both Angeline and Brian, touched on their experiences as young professionals having worked in the UK for 5 years.
Chan Lyons Architects is a London-based design-led architectural practice founded by Vivian Chan and Philip Lyons in 2009.Together, they have a combined experience of over 25 years in the industry spanning the UK, Spain and Singapore, having cut our teeth at highly regarded design practices like Foster and Partners and David Morley Architects in London and Albert de Pineda Arquitectes in Barcelona.Vivian and Philip approach architecture from various perspectives, as artist, architect, surveyor and more. At Chan Lyons Architects, we have the fusion of creativity with a multi-disciplinary approach. They are currently working on a number of residential projects including a contemporary new build farmhouse on the outskirts of Liverpool. We are designing a Bed and Breakfast in south London and have further hospitality, commercial and residential projects in the pipeline.Their designs are contemporary and founded on a keen awareness for sustainability, careful engagement with both the client's requirements and sensitivity to the site.They believe the process is as important as the product; they strive towards a happy and inspiring working environment both as an office and with our clients. Vivian and Philip are supported by a small yet dynamic and talented architectural team.
For more information please visit:
www.chanlyons.com
Mohyin Kwan's glass sculptures were recently featured at the Visual Arts exhibition for Singapore Encore in Brussels on Wednesday, 25th November 2009 at the Musical Instruments Museum. This event was organised in partnership with the Singapore Embassy in Belgium. In attendances were about 150 dignitaries from the diplomatic, business and cultural sectors of Belgian society.
The selected glass sculptures were previousely featured at SW1 Gallery in London as part of Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) Summer Exhibition 2009 and at 1 of nine, a charity fundraiser in aid of Breast Cancer Care.
VeeSun Ho was born and rise in Singapore, Sun moved to London in 2003, where she
is an freelance graphic and web designer. She graduated with an
advertising diploma in 1995, during her time as a designer, she has
worked with internationally-renowned advertising agency, design houses
and publishers.
During her free time, she works on conceptual video art and reviewing music.
Name: VeeSun Ho
Location: London, UK
Website: N.A.
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Photographer Louis Lau was selected to provide a photo to be used on the PROJECT: slingSHORT09 graphic collateral.
The visual brief was about time, and moving subjects being captured in stills using any photographic technique. The generator of these movement is less important in these visuals,
but the abstraction of movement captured becomes the subject matter.
If you can see, look.
If you can look, observe.
- excerpt from exhortations.
Calvin Chua was recently featured at the Visual Arts exhibition for Singapore Encore in Brussels on Wednesday, 25th November 2009 at the Musical Instruments Museum. This event was organised in partnership with the Singapore International Foundation and the Singapore Embassy in Belgium. In attendances were about 150 dignitaries from the diplomatic, business and cultural sectors of Belgian society.
The object, Field of Engagement, reveals a “field” of information on [re:act]’s various projects (indicated as overlapping ripples) depicting their influence and impact. The rectangular cut-outs are mini video screens showcasing selected significant projects. Similarly, [re:act]'s vision of engaging social issues within the architectural field, can only be uncovered through a sensitive process of observation, analysis and implementation. We have selected three significant projects at different levels of engagement and perspectives are selected to provide insights into issues of conservation and planning within Singapore, ranging from an intimate and personal video in an attempt to save the remaining rustic charm of colonial houses and the community at Seletar Airbase; to a video which showcases design proposals by youths at a workshop, Design my Place, conducted to uncover 'hidden' issues within their urban neighbourhood environment. One thesis of theirs is to examine critical pactice against the practice of engagement. Specific buildings and projects do not matter as much as a focus on strategies and policies that can generate a whole series of projects, which then take on a life of their own and evolve over time, adapting to changes in the social and political culture. While working on this object for the Venice Biennale, it allowed them to critically reflect the representation of their socially engaged projects in a formalized installation. Given the fact that their projects do not have specific aesthetics, they took on an approach of representing our projects in terms of values of influences and impacts.
Field of Engagement was presented at the SINGAPORE SUPERGARDEN, Venice Biennale 2008.
Singapore Playhouse London is back this year with "Wills and Secession", the second instalment of the “Invitation to Treat” trilogy by Singaporean playwright Eleanor Wong. A story about identity, faith, sexuality, love, and family, the play revolves around Ellen Toh, a lesbian lawyer; her partner Lesley; and Ellen’s conservative Christian sister, Grace. Tensions rise when Grace has to persuade Ellen (and by extension, Lesley) into returning to Singapore to take care of their ailing father after their mother passes away. Lesley herself is dying of cancer, and as she approaches her final days, the three women bond in their struggle to reconcile personal inclinations, familial obligations, and society’s expectations.
TICKETS:• 10th December 2009 (Thurs): 8pm (£10).• 11th December 2009 (Fri): 3pm (£5); 8pm (£10).
* 20% concession available for groups of 5.
* Pre-show drinks will be available for purchase for evening performances.For tickets and other enquiries, email singaporeplayhouselondon@gmail.com or contact: 07599412912 (Eugene)/ 07912674389 (Cui).
Sarah Ho believes EVERYTHING NEEDS ARCHITECTURE!
She is conscious of the architectural vital implications on the individual, environment and the built reacting against the existing framework set by social, environmental, political, economical factors. Seeing herself as an agent, she pursues architecture at the Architectural in London whose motto she lives by: Design in Beauty, Built in Truth.
Driven to bridge current and future concerns on environmental predicaments and the urban context into through architecture, she questions through mediums of documentation. She believes architecture serves as the catalyst in exemplifying the importance of conceiving ideas to impose on the human senses and freedom of the physical body, therefore should always be in questioning, asking and probing.
Recently in the United Kingdom, she has participated and contributed to furniture fabrication workshops held at The Hooke Park, Dorset (forest owned by the AA) one of which was sponsored by the Maeda Corporation academic researched, and designed publications for the AA First Year Studio (2007 and 2009), Crossing Exhibition (2008) and Pending Structures (AA Media Studies Exhibition 2008). These workshops and publications have aided in the increase and expanded versatile study of her architecture vocabulary and acknowledgment of architecture in relation to people.
Name: Sarah Ho
Location: London, UK
Website: N.A.
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Angline Yam was recently featured at the Visual Arts exhibition for Singapore Encore in Brussels on Wednesday, 25th November 2009 at the Musical Instruments Museum. This event was organised in partnership with the Singapore International Foundation and the Singapore Embassy in Belgium. In attendances were about 150 dignitaries from the diplomatic, business and cultural sectors of Belgian society.Angline presented 2 works for the exhibtion one of which was, Typography Bilingual (Silk screen on paper). This was an experimental typography art work that came from a reflection and search of personal identity in London. Using a random paragraph extracted from a glossy English magazine bought at a newsstand in London. Simulating Chinese characters out of latin/ roman characters, distorting individual characters as and when necessary. The colour co-ordination are inherently Chinese - Red, Black,Gold and Cream but the words are obviously of the Latin / Roman characters while being distorted to find the Chinese character within. This work represents the very essence of Angeline’s own questioning of her personal identity as a Singaporean.Her second piece was Invisible city - London's bookmarks (Hardcover booklet).
Based on the book 'Invisible cities' - a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino, his book explores imagination and descriptions of cities by the explorer, Marco Polo. Angeline decided to choose London as her "Invisible city" and went to different libraries around London... flipping through books in different category, collecting all the "bookmarks" that people left behind. What then happens is one will try to imagine who are those who had read the book based only on the information of the "bookmarks" they have left behind and the little information of what the book is about. The bookmarks she had gathered together becomes a collection of Londoner's way of living. It is her personal approach of imaging what London is, who lives there, how the city is formed and how it functions. Each individual bookmark unravels a mysterious part of the person who left it behind and it is this mystery that forms the "shape" of her invisible city - London.
Sarah Huijie Cai was recently featured at the Visual Arts exhibition for Singapore Encore in Brussels on Wednesday, 25th November 2009 at the Musical Instruments Museum. This event was organised in partnership with the Singapore International Foundation and the Singapore Embassy in Belgium. In attendances were about 150 dignitaries from the diplomatic, business and cultural sectors of Belgian society.The works featured were from a selection of paintings and prints from her recent solo exhibition in Warsaw, Poland entitled Tall Tales.
Rake's progress is a series of paintings as a modern interpretation of Hogarth's 'A Rake's Progress" done in 1733. Hogarth had depicted eight panels about a young man who followed a path of vice and self destruction after inheriting a fortune. The modern interpretation tells a tale of a businessman in the 1950s trying to live an American dream with his pregnant wife in his suburban home, but succumbs to sins when he inherits a position as a trader in the city.
Hole in London is a 3 colour screen-print that explores the inexplicable adrenaline rush one gets when standing at the edge of the canal paths. The trickling sounds of water flowing and smells that waft from the other side of the tunnel tempts and enchants, as one resists from succumbing to jumping into the water just to get to the other end.
If all the famous landmarks had a voice, what would they sound like? 'Au claire de la lune' is an imaginative attempt to demystify the Eiffel Tower. This work is a 3 colour screen-print
Creative [SIN]ergy recently organised at talk for A Level AEP (Art Elective Programme) Students visiting from Singapore. These talks were held at Hillspring Lodge on Saturday 12 December 2009. The group were made up of 40 students and 4 teachers from the AEP.
