WEST 25 MARCH 2023

Jalan Bahar Clay Studios

Jalan Bahar Clay Studio (JBCS) comprises many studio spaces for artists working with clay. It provides the amenities for ceramic artists, in our art-making process. This clay studio is on the premise of one of the last two dragon kilns in Singapore. Visitors are welcome to take a tour into the belly of Guan Huat dragon kiln and learn about its history and the wood firing technique of pottery.

For this edition of Walk Walk Don’t Run, you may look out for the following artists who will be opening their studios for visit: Suriani Suratman, Vinata Goswamy, Hiroko Mita, Lee Shen Lung, Madhvi Subrahmanian and Nelson Lim.

Daniel Chong & Desiree Tham

The shared studio space between Desiree Tham and Daniel Chong collides the object-baaed practices of the two artists. For Tham, she uses objects to explore the metaphysical hopes and desires in the practice of fengshui. While for Chong, he uses them as emotive vessels, nudging the way we see mundane objects in our lives.

Factory 1611

FACTORY is an award winning, multi-disciplinary art & design studio based in Singapore and Shenzhen. We design experiences across fields such as branding, exhibitions & installations, websites & interactive design, publications, product and packaging design. Over the years, we've swept multiple prestigious international design awards such as the Red Dot Design Awards (Best of the Best) as well as the Art Director's Club. We believe good art expresses experiences, whereas good design successfully communicates a function or a message. Good art absorbs good design principles, whereas good design can be conveyed through striking artistic values. Combining these with emotive intelligence, we help companies create effective communication projects across all mediums.

Euphoramics

Yan draws on emotions and memories when she creates her works.  She believes memories connect people and hopes through her works, they can rekindle our fondest memories and experiences.  She’s intrigued by the alchemy of ceramics and its seemingly bottomless well of knowledge.  She is also inspired by her teachers and fellow artists who continuously push the boundaries of the medium clay and their discipline in their practices.  Yan is a full time ceramist, founder of Euphoramics and provides guidance to a community of potters in her studio.

Deanna Ng

Deanna documents fragments of memory in our rapidly changing urban landscape.She is a photographer and an educator. Her work involves community because she believes in the power of a collective memory through photographs. She has re-enacted old photos from the Old Great World Amusement park with present day participants for the Thomson East Line. A photo hoarder who has collected 300+ old photos of Haw Par Villa and rephotographed them for an exhibition at the Arts House in 2019. 

When she is not working with a community or students, she photographs trees around Singapore because you never know when it will be gone.  Come with a photo of your favourite memory of Singapore and share your stories with her.

Field Studies

Robert Zhao Renhui is a multi-disciplinary artist and the founder of the Institute of Critical Zoologists. His artistic practice addresses the human relationship with nature.

Ang Song Nian works with materials and traces of human behaviours made visible within landscapes through photographic documentations and installation. He is also the founder of THEBOOKSHOW, a platform that works towards providing opportunities for artists and photographers interested in the self-published photobook medium.

Co:Creation Workshop

Co:Creation Workshop is a social enterprise. We are a circle of artists and creatives that brings accessible and experimental art workshops to connect schools, organizations, and communities.

Tien Wei Woon

Tien Wei Woon is an artist and curator who works and lives in Singapore. He studied at Goldsmith’s College, London. He completed his Doctoral of Creative Arts at Curtin University (2012) where he researched about artistic strategies in Singapore’s Renaissance. He was the President of The Artists Village (2001), co-director and founder of The Danger Museum (since 1998), a founding member of a net art collective tsunamii.net (2001),a co-founder of a curatorial collective p-10 (2002-2008) and co-founder of the cultural and social collective Post-Museum (since 2007). His practice can be seen as collaborations between himself and other individuals/organisations/collectives.

Yen Phang

Born to a geneticist and agriculturalist, Yen Phang’s practice straddles painting, installation, and performance to investigate speculative semiosis and intersubjectiviity in/between biological systems. He was a recipient of the Winston Oh Grant (2016), Winston Oh Travel Research Award (2016), and was awarded the Cliftons Art Prize (2015) and the UNSW Julius Stone Prize (2006). His work has been collected by the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Singapore), British Airways for their Terminal 1 Lounge at Changi Airport, Singapore. He has also initiated projects such as “I.D. (The Body’s Still Warm)” (2018), Displacements: 13 Wilkie Terrace“ (2013),“The Peony And the Crow“ (2016), and “Repurposing Nostalgia” (2016) under the Displacements banner.

Isabelle Desjeux

Isabelle Desjeux is a Singapore-based artist and researcher. Using her training in Molecular Biology, she creates new kinds of scientific method-based artworks. Working closely with scientists, she encourages others to become the scientist in her interventions, whether in a class, during a workshop, or as part of an installation. Her work is participatory, with “experiment” being a strong part of her practice.

Isabelle’s Gallery Garden is where material (mostly recycled) sits in transition between one project and the next. Space and time may be limited, but  the responsibility of an artist is to enhance the life of any material to create emotion, function (or both) before this material inevitably returns to the ground as landfill, compost or ash and gas

She received her MAFA from Lasalle (2011), was the recipient of the French-Singapore New Generation Artist (2011), and of a Lasalle Research Fellowship (2017). Her work has been exhibited internationally.

NORTH 18 MARCH 2023

Baremetalco

They are a family-run metal fabrication business located at Toa Payoh industrial park since 1992, specializing in custom stainless steel fabrications. They have worked with different clients from diverse areas of expertise, ranging from engineers and architects to designers and artists. As the new generation takes over, they decided to re-brand and re-approach metal fabrication in Singapore. They hope to give others a fresh new perspective on metal fabrication when they look at their works.

Comma Space & Sai Studio

Established in January 2020, Comma Space 逗号空间 is an artist-run experimental art space. Comma Space aims to provide opportunities and infrastructure in supporting contemporary art practice. Referring to the comma’s functionality of separating, setting off phrases, expressing contrast, Comma Space is a hub for creativity and criticism, bonding with people from different backgrounds, and reaching out to the local communities, and demonstrates ways in which art is vital as part of society. Comma Space makes art, curates exhibitions, commissions projects, generates and applies research, and supports local, regional and international contemporary artists.

Sai Studio is a studio of local artists Sai (aka Chen Sai Hua Kuan) and Wang Ruobing. Sai is a multidisciplinary artist whose artwork traverses a wide range of mediums including sculpture, drawing, installation, video, sound and performance. Ruobing is an artist, researcher, educator and independent curator. Her art practice often focuses on environmental discourses. This is a working studio, not a display room. So if you are curious of how a genuine artist studio looks like, this is a rare chance!

Starch

Starch is an artist-run space meant to centre artists and support experimentation in various orientations. Currently, they offer all engagements a full calendar month and the freedom to decide the agency the space has in each iteration. The space is currently run by Moses Tan and the various generous energies that have both occupied and contributed to the space.

Ian Tee & Anna Chan

Ian is an artist working across a variety of media – destroyed metal paintings, bleached and dyed textiles, and collage. His practice is an exploration of youth, in relation to the themes of rebellion, vulnerability and identity. For Anna, drawing is a form of mediation through realities. She is interested in the ability of lines to claim pictorial space yet depict mental space —and in the mental space we each make our own place. In this open studio, Ian and Anna will be presenting recent explorations as well as works-in-progress.

Tang Ling-Nah

Tang Ling-Nah is an artist based in Singapore. She draws with charcoal, but performs if her body allows. She teaches drawing and sometimes curates. activated C Studio occupies one unit of the many Housing Development Board (HDB) flats in the northern part of Singapore. Proudly containing a library, two working rooms, a kitchen and a storeroom (which HDB intended as a bomb shelter), it is the living, drawing, thinking, reading, writing, publishing, sharing, cooking and hiding space of Singapore artist Tang Ling Nah.

Kyt Studio

Kee Ya Ting is an artist, photographer and video producer based in Singapore. Having worked with both still and moving images across the arts and commercial fields in the past decade, Ya Ting is adept in handling both mediums from conceptualisation to print or to the screen.

Loh Xiang Yun

Loh Xiang Yun is an Artist and Scientific Botanical Illustrator who lives and works in Singapore. Her work interrogates how people relate to nature. Using her observations made through drawing, painting, and photography, she examines the everyday to study how nature is managed and engineered in our cities. Through durational projects that map and document plants in our surroundings, she charts the changing ways we see and define nature.

She started her professional career as a scientific botanical illustrator in 2018. Her drawings were included in scientific publications such as flora monographs, taxonomic papers, and new species descriptions primarily using dried and alcohol-preserved herbarium specimens. She has contributed illustrations to the 10-year project ‘Flora of Singapore’ spearheaded by the Singapore Botanic Gardens under the National Parks Board (NParks).

Geraldine Kang

Geraldine Kang uses photography as a means of introspection and as a tool to negotiate identities within physical and psychological spaces. Combining photography with objects she creates installations that address a range of topics from family, community, and mental illness to site-explorations of the undercurrents and ambivalences of familiar places. Kang holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography and Digital Imaging from Nanyang Technological University and has exhibited her work both locally and internationally with solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore and NTU CCA Singapore. She participated to group shows at the ifa Gallery in Berlin and Stuttgart, and ONESITE Art Festival in Taiwan. She was awarded the 2011 Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Still Photography and participated to photography platforms such as Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards, Photographer’s Forum, Px3 and the Asian Women Photographers’ Showcase. She is also the editor of Left to Right, an anthology of image-making in Singapore.

Studio 39

Studio 39, located in a semi-industrial building in Jalan Pemimpin is an artist-run shared studio space. Established by Mahalakshmi Kannappan and Zoya Chaudhary, it aims to provide a dynamic, affordable, shared environment for new and emerging art practitioners. There are currently five artists at Studio 39: Mahalakshmi, Zoya, Anuskar Sarkar, Joanne Lim and Andrea Danker.

Supper House

Supper House is a creative space that doubles up as an art studio and also an exhibition space.

Titled 'Let's Take A Walk - 出去走走' (a playful spin off from Walk Walk Don't Run), visitors may look forward to engaging with Ching Kai’s paper studio in Supper House as well.

SCULPTURE 2052

SCULPTURE 2052, an art space and also a research project that is dedicated to the art of Sculpture. It is conceived as an ongoing research endeavour to investigate the practice of Sculpture in Singapore through the sculptors’ perspective and vision.

Pinch Ceramics Studio

Pinch Ceramics Studio is an artist-run studio founded by Tricia Lim. We offer ceramics classes and it is a space for independent artists to work and collaborate in the field of clay, sculpture and other mediums.

At Pinch we build things with our hands whilst finding pleasure in shapes and textures. With beginners we focus on transforming a lump of clay into a conjured vessel from your imagination. For artists, we provide a space and expertise to deepen their experiments of forms and materials.

During open studios this year, we will be displaying works by our students and artists. At the back of the studio there will be a hole-in-the closet shop opening selling coffee, baked goods, quirky ceramics and zines organized by Mike HJ Chang.

EasT 11 March 2023

Temporary Unit

Inconvenient bookshop and occasional workshop/exhibition space run by gideon-jamie / Temporary Press.

Allegro Print

Allegro Print is a creative production house based in Singapore that has been providing quality printing services for over a decade and a half.

They are proud to offer a wide range of services and brands, from offset and digital printing, to intricate production finishes. Their paper products are designed in-house, and we have successfully produced countless award-winning projects for our clients.

Allegro Print will be open for walk-ins from 10.30am to 5pm. The press will be running until 4pm, if you’d like to see it in action.

Jo Ho

Jo Ho is an artist exploring human-machine collaborations with the tools we create and attempts to bridge the corporeal with the digital through visual content and presentation. Jo works with mixed-media installations, interactive artwork, moving images, projection mapping, digital paintings using data and machine-learned graphics as material, and virtual experiences created with game engines. Jo has a bachelor's in Architecture from Pratt University and pursued her Masters in Media Spaces in Berlin. Since 2020, Jo Ho has shown at the National Gallery Singapore, several museums and galleries, and currently teaches creative coding at LASALLE College of the Arts. Her artwork has been featured in a Vogue Singapore edition as well as articles online in the Straits Times and FEMALE magazine.

Jeremy Sharma

Jeremy Sharma has always worked with the ontology of things and the capacity for voids - between knowledge, perception, memory, data and formats -to be made, occupied, heard or visualized. However, his more recent forays and experiments look into images through the effects of supermodernity. He has recently returned to painting, music and writing as more personalised forms of artistic engagement and runs bulanujung – an experimental curatorial platform with an interest in moving images, events and exhibition-making. He also teaches in the McNally School of Fine Arts in LASALLE.

Sadman Studio

Sadman Studio is a space shared between friends and creatives with diverse practices. For Walk Walk Don’t Run 2023, Closet Children, Yom Bo Sung and Ryan Lim Zi Yi will open their space to present some old works, some new works and some works in progress.

Studio Swell

Swell is a design practice based in Singapore, we deliver printed matter, analogue, digital and experiential concepts. Design functions both as means and ends to us, a medium of expression as well as a platform. We strive for an objective approach, creating ideas which are progressive, relevant and authentic. We are fluent in the fields of branding, design, advertising and photography. Our strength lies in our art direction, which is what our works stem from.

Chris Yap

Chris Yap was born in 1969 in Singapore. He is a noted fine art photographer. He pursues art to better express stories; photography to know what makes this technique an art image at the top of its class, painting to create textures of life often ignored, music to say thing the sensitive feelings without worrs. He believes an art image is created from numerous process of understanding, story-telling, lighting, composition details, concept and production techniques. Chris’ creations never fails to give a sensation of tactility and drama.

Central 04 march 2023

Grey Projects

Grey Projects is a space and platform for exhibition, exchange, residency, and publication.

At Grey Projects, the photographer and sociologist Ng Hui Hsien and our artist-in-residence Lu Wei from Taipei Artist Village will be sharing their studios with you.

Quarter Space

Quarter Space is a shared artist studio. Modular in design, it houses 4 studio units reflective of each resident's practice yet aligned in a common understanding to find Space to research, Space to experiment, Space to workshop, and Space to speculate. Nested in Jalan Bukit Merah, Quarter Space sits 4 artists; Crystal Sim, Hong Shu-ying, Lin Shiau Yu, and Marvin Tang.

dblspce

dblspce (pronounced as double space) is an integrated space and incubator dedicated to artistic practice. Based in Singapore, its programming is two-pronged, focused on a mentorship and a studio/residency programme. As a laboratory, dblspce aims to catalyse dialogue through interdisciplinary engagement and exchanges, to become a site of encounters.

DASSAD Studio

DASSAD is a multidisciplinary visual arts trio based in Singapore, comprising of Adar, Dave and Soak. Primarily image-makers, the collective develops collaborative and process-based works that emphasise on mediums as messages.

For this edition of 'Walk Walk Don't Run', DASSAD will organise their past works and explorations in an attempt to build a self-referential case study for examining collective art-making. This open studio welcomes visitors to reflect with DASSAD on the joys and struggles of maintaining a collective practice, and the growth and possibilities that await.

Marla Bendini

Marla Bendini (she/her/they/them) is a cross-disciplinary artist and trans woman working in painting, text, sound and performance to articulate the infinitely faceted transgender experience on her own terms. Bendini's current practice uses the female gaze through a combination of writing, drawing, painting, photography & installation to create layered 'documentations' of their experiences. Marla lives and works in her studio in Kampong Gelam.

I_S_L_A_N_D_S

I_S_L_A_N_D_S is an experimental art platform that encourages artists to reconsider the boundaries of their practices by testing novel concepts and alternative means of exhibition-making.

Hothouse (INTER-MISSION, Currency Design & formAxioms)

Hothouse is a space in Singapore that supports and prototypes artistic practices. It nurtures experimentation and production as a mode of upending conventions and liberating inquiry. Founded in 2020, it is housed within space and time shared between art collective INTER–MISSION, design agency Currency, and more recently, research lab formAxioms.

This ever-evolving interdisciplinary setup encompasses expertise across contemporary art, technology, design, and architecture, allowing for emancipatory approaches toward knowledge building and dissemination.

Shrub

Shrub is a store specialising in independent artist products. Located in a gritty former locksmith store at Goldenmile Tower, Shrub presents a melting pot of curated zines, prints, tees, and various odds and ends. Concurrently, the space is used as a base for people to come together, create, explore, discuss, and collaborate. In true D.I.Y spirit, the people at Shrub believe that being self-taught and learning from our peers is an invaluable and sacred gift. Shrub welcomes people of all identities, come say hello!