WEST 13 november

Yanyun Chen

Dr. Yanyun Chen is a visual artist, and runs a drawing, new media and installation practice. Her works delve into the aesthetic, cultural and technological inheritances on one’s body, unravelling fictional and philosophical notions of embodiment, and are grounded in the physicality of human and botanical forms. At her studio sits a litter of work-in-progress drawings, an overworked robot vacuum and a stunning view.

Silly Goose Studio

The goose is not a moose, this is not a big caboose
Don’t be doctor sous, be the XL chicken come home to roost
silly goose studio is occupied by five westlive creatives.
Multi-sensory products have been consumed and released from the shared space.

This studio is occupied by Zhiyi Cao, Chong Lii, Guo Lei Bing, Soh Kay Min and Yom Bo Sung.

Jalan Bahar Clay Studio

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.

Suriani Suratman

Suriani enjoys transforming a lump of clay into various forms whether on the wheel or by handbuilding. She likes working with different types of raku clay because of the coarseness of the clay gives texture to the organic forms that she is able to create. You will get to see the different stages the works she creates go through – from the initial stage of being formed to the final stage when the work is glazed and fired. 

Alvin Ng

Alvin Ng from A_Pot Studio specializes in gas firing and wood firing teaware. He frequently conducts gas kiln firing experiments, which enables him to methodically explore and make break-throughs in the performance of “local clay” and “local ash”. Using his unique “hand pinching method”, Alvin lets the local clay play a leading role in shaping itself into various organic shapes, thereby enhancing the texture and characteristics of natural clay.

James Jack

James Jack works with dirt, tides and coconut wireless at a seaside studio in Penjuru. Jack is an artist who engages layered histories tied to place as a way to concentrate on instances of positive change achieved through community-led initiatives. His works have been exhibited at the Asian-American Art Center, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Honolulu Museum of Art, Setouchi International Art Festival, Busan Biennale, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, NTU CCA and Comma Space. He will be sharing works in progress interwoven with current exhibits at ICAS, Oku Noto Triennal and ongoing projects.

Kitt Lim

Kitt’s love for art have long been supressed since young and chosen an alternative route to self sustain. Over the years, his in the engineering field have given him the opportunities to relocate in many different countries in Asia. During his leisure time, he will explore the local art scene and back alley for inspiration together with my ipad. He normally will incorporate his everyday observations and imaginations in his art pieces.

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.

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.

EasT 6 November

Temporary Unit

Temporary Unit is the studio space of gideon-jamie, a small design practice since 2017. The studio is used for various activities on top of day-to-day graphic design work. These include running an independent publishing press (Temporary Press), making small exhibitions, workshops (in planning), and a simple corner bookstore.

We hope to scatter some ongoing explorations—object-prototypes, drawings, yet to be published materials, ideas—around the space. The corner bookstore should also be up with some initial titles!

Kanchana Gupta

Kanchana Gupta’s practice yokes process with materiality and this is the structure and impetus behind most of her works. The materials which inhabit her work range from oil paint and canvas to socially weighted everyday substances such as vermillion powder, henna, silk, sandalwood powder and stretch to urban construction materials like jute and tarpaulin. Her studio process is both reflective and meditative, developed through repetitive actions such as layering, tearing, burning, peeling, stacking, folding, bundling, heaping, arranging, compressing and cleaving. These actions and the art works themselves may be read as metaphors for the concealment and revelations, of accumulated experiences as well as an ongoing social commentary on the condition of labour.

Visitors can anticipate to see few works from her new series, ‘Works In Progress’, which is influenced by and is an artistic response to urban spaces especially those spaces of transition like construction sites, industrial areas and temporary dwellings.

The Made Agency

Due to the spike in covid cases within the building The Made Agency is housed in, we would like to advise visitors to arrange a visit at an alternative date and time by emailing them at hello@madeagency.sg. Do visit the other spaces in the Eastside, as they are mostly interconnected by train and bus. We seek your cooperation in making this a safer experience for all. Thank you.

The Made Agency is an open space to make.

They have equipment and facilities for wood, metal, glass, ceramic, fibre, casting, plastics and more, but more than tools, they have a small and tight community excited to support artists, designers and curious people looking to make for themselves.

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.

Zen Teh

Zen Teh is an artist and educator interested in man's relationship with the natural world. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Digital Imaging from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2011; and is currently pursuing Master of Arts (Research) on interdisciplinary art and education from National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. 

Fajrina Razak

Fajrina Razak is a visual artist and art educator whose practice concerns the notion of individuality and cultural identities, while being driven by the aspects of emotions and spirituality - as methods of excavating personal histories through questioning and investigating own conservative background. Her practice layers through findings of traditional and contemporary motifs when working primarily with batik medium. Her works are also translated across mediums such as photography and text-based art. Recent projects include exhibitions An Exercise of Meaning in a Glitch Season at the National Gallery Singapore and Between the Living and the Archive at Gillman Barracks.

Jay Ho & Paradise Now

Jay is a painter working with gloss paint, epoxy resin and foam board prints, striking a balance between control and chance through indirect painting processes. He is interested in the themes of scale, fractals and the limits of human perception.
Along with Bryan Tan, he is also part of an artist project duo Paradise Now. Their artworks assimilate a diversity of daily influences drawn from perception through daily observation, acting as a repository for their thoughts and memories that would otherwise fade away with the business of daily living.

Jodi Tan

Jodi Tan is an artist whose core interest lies in image-making and image-reading. She is interested in how these processes are imbued by a learnt sense of logic which may be disrupted to bring about reinterpretations. Her works span across various media from drawing, collage and painting to textile and sculpture. 

She will be sharing some work-in-progress and paintings from ongoing “Still Life” series as well as drawings from the series that have never been exhibited.

Supernormal

Supernormal is an independent art space that strives to present experimental and offbeat works and projects, ranging from design to artistic practises, and the in-betweens.

central 30 october

Grey Projects

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

We will be presenting our annual Queer Show, which, because of the pandemic, has become our first new show of the year! This 'Dress/Address' exhibition features four artists - Yeong Jun Bo, Samuel Xun, Shawna Wu and Shika - each exploring clothing as relational media, the ways dress and dressing tap on the communicative latency that has always existed in textile arts, and the ways in which our dressing are forms of address, which are themselves formative of the relations between one another.

The Bee's Knees Press

The Bee’s Knees Press are an indie printmaking workshop by Cheva Yu. They offer printmaking facilities including etching presses and classes. Come and learn more about the processes of printmaking with them!

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.

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. This is the first art installation series on I_S_L_A_N_D_S space takeover project by artist-curator Shen Jia Qi, Lizzie Wee & Erman Ashburn. The series will kick off with Sarah Lin, featuring artists whose artistic practice delves into technology running on a monthly basis till March 2022.

You will encounter an art installation piece by Sarah Lin, an artist interested in negotiating lengths for permission of woman bodies in the local cultural context, and is keen to understand how to improve systems for women bodies to be free.

Hothouse

Hothouse is located at the work space shared between design studio Currency and art collective INTER—MISSION with the interest of opening and sharing our resources, whether that be space, equipment or knowledge. We are interested in providing a space for processes and experimentation.

blessed lunch

blessed lunch is an all femme run studio inhabited by 5 creatives.

There’s much to see:
Avis experiments the lyrical quality of images and sound, Racy writes/curates and is interested in the intersections of media and feminist-based frameworks. Aneesha plays with embroidery, Si Xuan creates installation- based works with kinetic and electrical elements, and lastly Chloë's large-scale paintings explore her roots through botanical imagery.

Come join them as they present their creative journeys along with its many discourses all in one space — blessed lunch welcomes you with some warm tea and snacks.

Victoria Hertel

Victoria’s work synthesizes the materiality of painting with the spatial characteristics of installation art. It particularly explores these painterly dimensionalities as a means of offering a different approach to site-specific interventions. The resulting work is an environment in which different systems, of a chemical, biological or mechanical nature, interact to highlight the process of becoming as an experiential framework for life.

She is opening up her studio space for visitors to explore works-in-progresses, ongoing material studies and the different stages involved in site-specific experimentation. Since she will be preparing for upcoming exhibitions, the space offers the possibility for visitors to experience works in their raw state and experimental studio environment.

Jalan Besar Salon

Jalan Besar Salon is designed to be residency-based annual art and cultural programme at a storefront in Jalan Besar. In each edition, the salon experiments with a new format, from the participatory workshop, studio-based, research-based residency to online engagements. In 2019, the Salon transcended beyond its physical compound to the digital sites where the programme takes place throughout the year. For 2021, artist Cynthia Delaney Suwito was invited to participate in a quasi residency at the Salon, with the goal to publish and disseminate the publication Kresek. Cynthia Delaney Suwito’s practice explores the subtleties of everyday life and the experience of time.

Departing from the usual residency presentation format, which usually happen in the middle or towards the end of the residency, this open studio marks the beginning of her 3 months residency at Jalan Besar Salon. In this presentation, Cynthia will showcase a range of work-in-progress materials. With the site in mind, she will reinterpret the spatial relationship of the artist in residency and the Jalan Besar Salon office.

NortH 23 October

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.

Pinch Ceramics Studio

Pinch Ceramics Studio is an artist-run studio founded by Tricia Lim. We offer ceramic 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. If you are a beginner, we focus on transforming a lump of clay into a conjured vessel from their imagination. If you are an artist, we provide a space and expertise to deepen your 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 homemade drinks, quirky ceramics and zines organized by Mike HJ Chang.

Comma Space & Sai Studio

Comma Space 逗号空间 is an artist-run experimental space that creates thinking spaces between commas. Comma makes art, curates exhibitions, commissions projects, generates and applies research, and supports contemporary artists locally, regionally and internationally.

They are presenting a new art-media exhibition “Body Experiment: Reflection of Technology” by Korean artist Jun Hye Joo and local artist Tristan Lim, curated by Korean curator Seungah Lee. “Body Experiment” is part of Comma’s curatorial series INBETWEEN. 

Sai Studio is a studio of local artist Sai (aka Chen Sai Hua Kuan). Sai is a multidisciplinary artist whose artwork traverses a wide range of mediums including sculpture, drawing, installation, video, sound and performance.

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!

T.T.O.O

The studio/space – T.T.O.O is the uncultivated soul of two combined creative practices of writer Hilary Yeo and photographer/set designer Elsa Wong, the culmination as arbritary as it is rooted in seriousness. It is a space for holding conversations and exchanges, for the generation of ideas and spontaneous creation as chaotic and imaginative as the texture of oatmeal and the turmoil of oblivion (T.T.OO). Enter a wonderland of exploration… portaled into whatever you make it to be, in the moment when we transform it.

Visitors can anticipate a melting pot of giggles, taking shape as a multi sensorial experience with a maximalist burst. We welcome our visitors to look at and touch the works during our creation process, serving as a sensory prelude to our final installation. As you connect with the space, expect engaging and exciting relays of practices colliding within unfixed modes.

Un Studio

Un Studio is run by ceramist Rei Minagawa and furniture maker Liu Yang. Their works consist mostly of custom and small batch tablewares and furnitures for the home. They also run pottery workshops for people who have just started working with clay, or total newbies.

Starch

Starch is an artist-run space meant to centre artists and support experimentation in various orientations. Currently, we 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.

Luke Heng

Luke Heng works primarily within the confines of painting by deconstructing information drawn from the painters process. He is interested in the dialectics between painting, object, and picture making, while assimilating and externalising recurring thoughts of liminality and the speed of modern living through the mode of image and objects. Heng graduated with MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London in 2020, which he attended on a scholarship, and he has since been actively practicing art both locally and internationally.

Boo Sze Yang

Boo’s paintings deal with a broad range of subject matter, from mundane domestic objects to images of car and airplane crash scenes, derelict interiors of cathedrals and unpeopled chambers of shopping malls. Boo treats banal objects, modern architectural interiors and destructive scenes as metaphors for the human condition, transforming these into a symbol of contemporary life through his loose, gestural technique and use of a restrained palette to emphasize the materiality of paint.

Sculpture 2022 Space

The space, Sculpture 2022 Space, is initiated by Yeo Chee Kiong. He is a contemporary sculptor and installation artist who is fascinated with the language and spatial relationship between object, space and authorship. His work destabilises the familiar notions of spatial proportions and perspectives, whilst examining the human conditions in the construction of an extended surreal world.

Ian Tee @ Primz Gallery

Ian Tee 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. Conflating the history of painting with the energy of subcultures, he is interested in how aesthetic narratives can be reworked and recontextualised. The attitude carried is a statement about power, defiance and possibility.

Primz Gallery was established in 2014 by Linda Neo and Albert Lim to showcase their private collection of more than 15 years. When they shifted their focus to collecting artworks by Singapore artists in 2010, they launched private non-sale exhibitions at their art space. Primz Gallery aims to be an exhibition space for art appreciation, knowledge, education and conversation for local and foreign visitors.