RIAU
RIAU is a 30-minutes film which documents Zai Kuning’s extended period of stay with the Orang Laut (sea gypsies), living in a nomadic fishing village around the Riau islands in the early 2000s. Weaving...
View Article“There are too many episodes of people coming here…”
“There are too many episodes of people coming here…” builds on the previous exhibition’s interest towards the textuality of exhibitions, bringing in additional materials by artists Charles Lim, Dennis...
View ArticleMerri Randell + Chris Denaro, ‘(UN) natural urges’– video art exhibition
This exhibition seeks to challenge our relationship with Australian forests. Merri Randell creates hybrid mediated landscapes to represent her experience, depicting forests vast in scale and detail...
View ArticleCarol Murphy ‘Sculptural Forms IV’– sculpture exhibition
This fourth manifestation of the Sculptural Forms series, first started in 2009, began after Carol Murphy came across an online advertisement for an artwork at an English Antiques Shop. This elegant...
View ArticleJames Guppy ‘Counterpoint’– exhibition of paintings
For the past few years my work has been driven by an inner malaise and dissatisfaction with “the way things are”. This time I am relieved to be returning to a favoured theme…a focus on intimacy, and...
View ArticleBook launch: Track Faults and Other Glitches
Author and journalist Nicholas Yong launches his second book at the Singapore Writers Festival on Sunday, November 6. In “Track Faults and Other Glitches”, Nicholas Yong takes us on a journey into an...
View ArticleChinese Whiskers – little feline emperors and their retail kingdoms
Hong Kong’s shop cats are the little emperors of their retail kingdoms. When photographer Marcel Heijnen moved to the city he was immediately drawn to these photogenic mouse-hunters, and this book is...
View ArticleHappiness Private Limited 2016 Peculiar Botany by William Sim
The eighth edition of the Happiness Private Limited show is a hybrid of William’s trademark fantasia and the botanical world. The work is presented as a series of pseudo-botanical drawings on...
View ArticleKrísis Conversations: Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska
Krisis Conversations is a series of interviews of the artists - Singaporean, British and international - who are part of the UK exhibition KRISIS. Supported by Singapore National Arts Council and Arts...
View ArticleWorkshop TOP SECRET: HOW TO WRITE A DIARY PEOPLE WANT TO READ
Your secret diary could be a future bestseller. Learn how use your diaries as early practice for page-turning novels in this workshop by Leila Rasheed. Author of the Bathsheba Clarice de Trop’s Diary...
View ArticleAbstraction in Three Mediums
‘Abstraction in Three Mediums’ will explore the boundaries of abstract painting in various artistic practices—stretching the limits of the medium of painting, challenging its conditions and working...
View ArticleArt Biennales: History, Concepts and Curatorial Strategies at International...
Ahead the upcoming 5th edition of the Singapore Biennale, this lecture is an introduction to the history, concepts, and strategies behind today’s curatorial-based periodic international art blockbuster...
View ArticleSWF Lecture THE WHENS AND WHYS OF ‘SAYANG’: HOW A WORD CAPTURES OUR REGION’S...
How a word can have multiple meanings at the same time, and have their meanings change over time, is an interesting mirror to the unfolding of history. This lecture looks at one word in particular,...
View ArticleWorkshop LEGO STOP-MOTION FILMMAKING PLAYSHOP
Who doesn’t love LEGO? Bring your favourite LEGO characters to life in this stop-motion animation ‘playshop’ by creating a one-minute animation film. This could be the start of your own version of The...
View ArticleSingapore Writers Festival 2016 – SWF STAGE: LIONEL SHRIVER: AN UNFLINCHING...
Lionel Shriver is feted for the way she takes on huge contemporary issues, and in her latest novel, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047, she wrestles with the spiraling effects of the economic meltdown,...
View ArticlePerformance BETWEEN THE LINES: RANT AND RAVE II
Between the Lines: Rant and Rave II is a spinoff of Rant and Rave, first staged by The Finger Players in 2012 and 2014. In this latest iteration, Between the Lines sheds light on the history and...
View ArticleSingapore Biennale 2016: An Atlas of Mirrors opens tomorrow
The fifth edition of the Singapore Biennale 2016 opens tomorrow (27 October) and will run till 26 February 2017. It is titled An Atlas of Mirrors and is organised by the Singapore Art Museum (SAM).
View ArticleImpressions 2016: Paintings by Zhang Chun Lei
AC43 is pleased to present Impressions 2016: Paintings by Zhang Chun Lei. Featuring 26 oil and acrylic paintings that capture the essence of changing landscapes past and present, these artworks come...
View ArticleThe Topless Liberation Front: A debut solo exhibition by Bhavna Shivayogimath.
Bhavna Shivayogimath’s debut solo exhibition, The Topless Liberation Front explores issues of the female identity such as self-expression, sisterhood, and diversity employing a multi-coloured palette...
View Article“Bare Reality” Dai Yun Solo Exhibition
Dai Yun has attained outstanding achievements in contemporary sculpture in China. Red bricks, grey bricks, cement and concrete iron have become his iconic sculptural languages, which is unique in the...
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