Agathe de Bailliencourt is a French artist born in Paris in 1974. She currently lives and works in Berlin. Accepting imperfection and impermanence is key to understanding her work. She utilizes disorder, spontaneity and urgency to attain a freedom untainted by reasoning and restraint. For the Singapore Biennale 2006, she painted on the entire surface of a three dimensional space, achieving a new sense of freedom. In 2007, commissioned by the French cultural center in Indonesia, she painted directly on a crossroad in Yogyakarta. In Berlin, she made "La vie en rose", a giant pink painting installation in the courtyard of a building in Neukoeln. In 2008, She was part of the "Intrude Art & Life" project with the Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art in China. Most recently in 2009, Agathe was invited by the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo to paint an installation for "Roppongi Art Night".
Ann Healey is English by birth but is a full-time artist based in Singapore. To date, she has had 11 solo exhibitions and 13 group exhibitions across South East Asia and England. She has been featured in countless media publications and broadcast interviews, and boasts an impressive list of commissions, which include global brands like the Ritz Carlton Hotels and Swatch Watch International.
Brad has a Master of Studio Art from Sydney College and has held sell-out solo exhibitions since 1997. He has been included in numerous group shows, notably at Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Mosman Art Prize Mosman and Salon des Refuse, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney. His work is represented in both private and corporate collections including the Arthur Boyd Foundation, Private Collections in London, New York, Sydney, TAKSU Singapore; Tetsuya Collection; The Minimbah Collection. Brad has paintings in the foyers of numerous Sydney hotels and his work is regularly featured in leading design magazines.
Fauzul Yusri was born in 1974 , Kedah, Malaysia. The work of this UiTM Shah Alam graduate has been consistently strong over his decade-long career, with 6 solo exhibitions and countless group exhibitions to his name. He was recently featured in WARNA (Hong Kong's contemporary art exhibition) as one of five prominent expressionist artists from Malaysia.
Filipino artist Gerardo Tan took his BFA degree in Painting at the University of the Philippines and his MFA degree in Painting at the State University of New York at Buffalo on a Fulbright grant. A multi-media artist, Tan works with object and photo-based installations, artists’ books, collages and mixed media paintings. His recent collage-based paintings fuse digital prints and paint, probing postmodern concepts of originality and individual style. Tan has participated in many local and international exhibitions among which are the 1st Melbourne Biennale (1999), the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ 13 Artists Award Exhibition (1988) and the 2nd Asian Art Show in Fukuoka Museum (1982).
Born 1960 in Purworejo, Hanafi has since held over 24 solo exhibitions and over 35 group exhibitions in Jakarta, Spain, Canada and Singapore. In 1997, His work was highlighted as the top ten best at the Philip Morris Art Awards. Hanafi often collaborates with national and international choereographs on multimedia projects, and also with poets and architects to define new boundaries of art.
"The central theme for my current works is Nature, and the way people deal with it. Either there is conflict or some kind of harmony or balance. One will find both aspects in my works.
Nature, in most cases, will be presented in my works by green colours or green plants, and by water. The way we relate ourselves to nature provides me excellent opportunities to mirror our human characteristics, as well as to put today’s environmental questions in a personal perspective."
-Jan Wisse
Singaporean ceramist Jessie Lim studied pottery in the United States of America. To date, she has had seven solo shows in Singapore and has featured extensively in group exhibitions both locally and internationally, including the International Ceramic Exhibition in Sweden and the Singapore Biennale in Beijing. Jessie Lim’s works are in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum. She also has a commissioned installation at Landaa, part of the Four Seasons Group in Maldives and two exterior installations at the Kuda Huraa Hotel.
Joe Fleming graduated from Sheridan College of Applied Arts in 1986 and has since been exhibiting his works internationally for over 20 years. He is also active in his second love - film-making. Fleming’s works has been collected by the Edmonton Art Gallery and the Canadian Postal Museum in Ottawa.
Justin Lim (b. 1983 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) completed his postgraduate studies in 2006 with the Master of Art (Fine Art) programme by The Open University UK conducted at Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore after obtaining a BA(Hons) Fine Art majoring in painting. He has exhibited widely in Malaysia and Singapore in various solo and group exhibitions. In 2007,he was the Artist-In-Residence at TAKSU, Kuala Lumpur and was awarded the 2008 Malaysia-Australia Visual Artist Residency at Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia.
Lawrence Borsoto (b. 1974), studied at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000. Borsoto returned to Malaysia for a second time to immerse himself in TAKSU's TARP program, and joined fellow artists Alfredo Esquillo and Jose Santos in a three-man exhibition entitled 'Silent Tension' at TAKSU Kuala Lumpur. Borsoto’s compositional approach to his subject matter results in an almost dreamlike quality to his paintings. He achieves this through an interlaying of images, as well as a mixture of stylistic devices that include monochromatic treatments, various deconstructive techniques, as well as his trademark vivid portraiture.
Lim Joo Hong (1954 - 2005), studied Chinese painting under cultural medallion winner Chua Ek Kay. His earlier work gives a modern spin on traditional Chinese brushwork and pushes the boundaries of the use of Chinese ink on rice paper. Through his art, Lim invites us to imagine forms within his brushwork - a rainfall, a palace, a swinging chandelier and interlocking leaves. In turn, he reveals to the audience his fascination with China (after living there from 1995 to 1998) and the rich western influences he was exposed to throughout his life.
"My art is an extension of my experiences, and my feelings. What I see in my surroundings—based on where I am, how I relate to it, and the material conditions available for artmaking—are composed vicariously in my mind through an experiential process, that translates the inner vision and personal attachment I have of a particular place, a special moment, or an irresistible idea. I translate these into works so that I do not lose the memory of this experience of seeing it mentally, how it moved me, and how it has changed my outlook of the world."
Filipino artist Lynyrd Paras graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Architecture and Fine Arts Technological University of the Philippines. Much of Paras' inspiration comes from his immediate surroundings. The frenzied, chaotic corner of Manila where he resides and works seems to infuse his art with a certain edginess and raw truth. In 2007, he was the finalist at the prestigious Phillip Morris Philippine Art Awards.
Matthew Carver is a Canadian artist, currently living in Berlin and was previously in London where he received his M.A. Fine Art with Distinction from The Chelsea College of Art. Much of the work for his shows at TAKSU Singapore and TAKSU KL is comprised of paintings completed during his tenure at TARP. His works reveal his fascination with the illusory spaces of modern cities as well as light, movement, and speed. Carver is the recipient of awards such as "The Canadian Emerging Artist Prize" and has been collected by institutions such as "The Saatchi Collection" in London, England.
Miguel Chew holds a B.A (Printmaking) and Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Currently a full-time lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, he is also the vice president of Printmaking Society Singapore. He is a recipient of the prestigious 11th Philip Morris Singapore Art Awards 2005 Jurors' Choice prize. Chew's works capture the starkness of the human condition in contemporary setting, merging the concept of design and fine art. His artwork is widely seen in public, having been commissioned by institutions such as the Esplanade and The New Majestic Hotel.
Singaporean artist Ng Joon Kiat holds a Masters of Art (Fine Art) from the University of Kent (U.K), and a Bachelor of Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Besides exhibiting extensively across the United Kingdom, Brazil, France and Asia Pacific, he is also a recipient of various awards and scholarships such as the Shell-NAC scholarship, SIA Excellence in the Arts Award and Georgette Chen scholarship. In 2007, he became the youngest artist to have his solo exhibition presented by National Museum of Singapore.
Norberto 'Peewee' Roldan currently lives and works in Manila, Philippines. He studied fine arts, majoring in visual communications, at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila; and also holds a masters degree in Art Studies from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Besides being artistic director of Green Papaya Art Projects, he is also the co-founder of the Black Artists of Asia). His works have been exhibited extensively across Asia, Japan, North America and Australia, and are in the collection of the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum and Singapore Art Museum amongst others. In 1998, he received the prestigious Philip Morris Asean Art Award.
Born in 1976, Manila, Rolando “Olan” Ventura has been practicing his brand of surrealist examination for the past decade since receiving his degree from the University of the East's Fine Arts Programme in 1998. This second of the Ventura trio of brothers is known as a sensitive portrayer of his own personal, domestic life, where his wife and child figure prominently in his work. Olan has held solo and group exhibitions in Manila, Jakarta and Singapore.
Om Mee Ai is a Korean artist based in Singapore. Om’s abstract paintings are mixture of multiplied grids and translucent colours that utilize a technique of complex and meticulous process of repetitive “taping, layering, and wiping” to assemble colour, texture, and improvised visual.Om participated in many art competitions and received some of the prestigious awards on several occasions. In 2003, she received the Juror's Choice Award, Philip Morris Singapore-ASEAN Art Awards. In 2004, She received the Emerging Artists Fund by the National Arts Council of Singapore. She was awarded “Category Winner of the Abstract Medium -UOB Painting of the Year Competition” in 2003, 2006, 2007 and Platinum Award in 2009. OM was one of the 30 finalists of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, Hong Kong in 2007 and 2008.
A fascination with space as a medium is evident in works by Australian artist, Tony Twigg. Often referring to his art works that are created with enamel paint on timber as “constructions”, his lattice-like works show his attentiveness to the space that surrounds structure. During his last decade spent travelling through Asia, Tony's work has developed into an engagement with objects, as he describes them, 'objects found beside the road'. He feels that he can read the language of these objects that crosses the national and cultural boundaries of our region. Most of his works incorporate found objects or found materials and he readily acknowledges the hand of an anonymous collaborator in their making. He sees truth in his found materials that he says, "are facts that come after the facts of history; they are the facts of life".
Wong Chee Meng was born in 1975, Taiping, Malaysia. He graduated from the Malaysia Institute of Art in 1996 with a Diploma in Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from Curtin University, Australia in 2006. Since then, he has been exhibiting his works locally and internationally. He is also active in conducting workshops, engaging in performance art, prop-making and stage construction. Wong Chee Meng is currently a part-time artist and Lecturer at Limkokwing University College of Creative Technology, Selangor, Malaysia.
