Tuesday, July 22, 2003
On The Table
Lim Soo Ngee's first solo exhibition of sculptures and pen drawings
Thursday 24th July 2003 7.30 pm
Utterly Art Exhibition Space
208 South Bridge Road 2nd Level, Singapore 058757
Tel: 6226 2605 E-mail: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg
Mon-Sat 11.30 am - 8 pm Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm
The exhibition runs through to Sunday 3rd August 2003.
For his first solo exhibition, Singaporean sculptor Lim Soo Ngee metaphorically and literally presents his artistic oeuvre On the Table. Rather than displaying each sculpture to maximum individual benefit on a pedestal, the output of his wood, stone and bronze endeavours will be laid out on several large tables in the gallery for all to inspect, unadorned. In this way, his audience will be encouraged to touch, handle and pick his artwork up for close and personal examination, although the largest pieces will have a home on the floor. Small and intimate as many of them are, with organic curves and smooth textures, they should endear themselves and appeal to the holder. On the walls, fine pen drawings echo the objects on the table, and are no less sinuous and organic in line and form. Soo Ngee’s artistic practice is thus laid bare for all to see – simple, direct, honest – on the table.
Women in the Arts
c/o Telok Kurau Studios Rm 109 , 91 Lorong J, Telok Kurau, Singapore 425985
Witalk for July 2003
Wita have the pleasure to present two Singaporean artists Ms Lim Shing Ee and Twardzik Ching Chor Leng for the July Witalk. And we would like to invite you to join us in the discussion.
Date: 25 July 2003 , Friday
Time: 7.00 pm
Venue: Telok Kurau Studios Room 109, Lorong J, 91 Telok Kurau , Singapore
About the speaker:
Lim Shing Ee graduated from Lasalle sia college of the arts with a BFA in 1998. In 1999, she was awarded with an art scholarship by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Singapore for her MFA studies in Japan. Shing ee left in 1999 to do a full-time language course in Tokyo before she proceeded to study her masters at the Musashino Art University. After the stint in Tokyo, she returned to Singapore and worked for a year as director of Plastique Kinetic Worms as well as a part-time tutor at Lasalle SIA college of the arts. She has had participated in numerous group exhibitions such as 'Ambulations' at Earl Lu Gallery in 1999, 'Crisp' at the Singapore Art Museum in 2000. She was also involved in a few collaborative projects with various young artists from Japan as well as Germany and these were shown at spaces in Japan as well as at Plastique Kinetic Worms, Singapore in 2000 entitled- 'Pyoko-Pyoko'. Her solo exhibitions took place at various spaces since 2000 at Gallery Yamaguchi in Tokyo, Tokyo Art Factory as well as Plas tique Kinetic Worms in October 2002.
Twardzik Ching Chor Leng is an artist and arts educator who has been practising installation art and land art for more than 10 years. She has exhibited extensively in group and solo exhibitions throughout Western Canada and in Singapore, and is currently developing several public art projects in Singapore. A regular recipient of meritorious awards and scholarships including the Hanna Kristmanson Ceramic Scholarship, the Ceramics Canada Award, and the Crown Life Entrance Award, Leng’s work is inclu ded in numerous public and corporate collections. Leng holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree from University of Regina, Canada, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics and a Diploma in Ceramic Arts from Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada. Leng’s work in Singapore has been featured in The Straits Times and in D+A Magazine (Asia) issue 012, 2003, She has also been interviewed on national radio on the topic of Land Art.
See you soon. Please feel free to bring along snacks and drinks.
Sunday, July 20, 2003
UTTERLY ART extends its heartiest congratulations to
all 22nd UOB Painting of the Year Exhibition Award Winners
including its featured exhibition artists
Luis Lee Jin Ming
featured in
The UOB Painting of the Year
Interiors: Vistas of Internal Spaces
15 Jun - 7 Jul 2002
April Ng Kiow Ngor
featured in
Highly Commended, Abstract
Do You See What I See?
Now You See It
22 Aug – 8 Sept 2002
21 Aug – 31 Aug 2003
Ho Tzu Nyen
featured in
Highly Commended, Representational
BadEvilAwfulTerribleYucky
19 Dec – 31 Dec 2002
Justin Lee Chee Kong
featured in
Highly Commended, Representational
Double Happiness: a fantasy in red
23 Jan – 9 Feb 2003
Jason Wee Han Chong
featured in
Highly Commended, Photography
Celestial Encounters
29 May – 8 Jun 2003
Boo Sze Yang
to be featured in
Highly Commended, Representational
Now You See It
21 Aug – 31 Aug 2003
Newsflash
No. of Arts Societies and Companies in Singapore
YEAR Societies Companies
1993 28 110
1994 29 122
1995 36 122
1996 36 134
1997 36 130
1998 35 137
1999 39 135
2000 36 150
2001 36 143
2002 37 137
¹Arts Societies refer to arts groups registered with the Registry of Societies and involved in Visual Arts. Societies that principally engage in multi-disciplinary arts have not been included in the Companies count.
²Arts Companies refer to companies registered with the Registry of Companies and Businesses and include Private Art Schools that train students in Visual Arts; Commercial Art Galleries; Art Auctioneers; Arts Consultants and Managers. Companies that principally engage in multi-disciplinary arts have not been included in the Companies count.
No. of visual arts exhibition
YEAR
No. of exhibitions
No. of days
1993
150
1,441
1994
208
2,135
1995
255
3,265
1996
273
3,270
1997
346
4,115
1998
399
6,164
1999
406
7,654
2000
520
8,376
2001
518
8,515
2002
551
9,459
Visual arts refer to public exhibitions of abstract or representational art objects such as paintings, sculpture, pottery, ceramics, creative photography and installation art. Applied arts such as graphic and fashion design, film and video, jewelry design and handicrafts are excluded.
Source: National Arts Council
UOB Painting of the Year Exhibition
(19-Jul-2003 to 17-Aug-2003)
UOB is proud to present its annual UOB Painting of the Year Exhibition at Jendela, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay from 19 July 2003 (Saturday) to 17 August 2003 (Thursday).
The Exhibition showcases over 50 original works executed in the Abstract,
Representational and Traditional Chinese mediums, including for the first
time in the Competition's history, works in the Photography medium.
Dates:
Painting of the Year Exhibition - 19 Jul to 17 Aug 2003
Solo Exhibition by Gong Yao Min - 12 to 17 Aug 2003
Time:
11am to 8.30pm (Tue-Fri)
10am to 8.30pm (Sat, Sun, PH)
Venue:
Jendala, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay
1 Esplanade Drive
Admission: FREE
The Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial
(3-Jul-2003 to 20-Jul-2003)
The Substation presents
Alan Cruickshank
The Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial
Venue:
The Substation Gallery
45 Armenian Street
Opening Hours:
11:00am to 9:00pm
For enquiries, call (65) 63377535.
The Museum of the Colonial Post Colonial comprises digital photographic works that present multiple readings of the politics of representation and cultural difference. The images are based on J.W. Lindt's photo album of Australian Aboriginals, created in the 1870s.
Alan Cruickshank has worked for over 20 years as artist, curator, writer, publisher and public art project co-ordinator, based in Adelaide, Australia. Currently he is the Director of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, and is the designer/editor of its Australia-wide distributed arts+cultural magazine Broadsheet.
Sponsored by
The National Arts Council, Singapore
Horizontal
(1-Aug-2003 to 17-Aug-2003)
A solo exhibition by Alan Oei
Venue: The Substation Gallery
Gallery Hours : 11:00 am to 9:00 pm
Modernism, as an artistic cultural movement, called into attention the way western Perception was predominated by a vertical axis – that man saw the world, uptight, erect, and then fading away. Interestingly, as modernity and industrialism – building skyscrapers and moon bases – propelled man vertically higher and higher, art history would take an opposite trajectory, becoming increasingly horizontal. Pollock painted on the ground; Rauschenberg mapped culture with his flatbed painting. To this day, painting has for the most part remained entirely in the domain of verticality. This exhibition, the third solo exhibition by the artist Alan Oei, seeks to address this issue, by examining very closely the configuration and limits of painting in terms of horizontality and the position/ perspective of the viewer.
Dr. Igor Smirnov: Between the Moment and Eternity
(12-Sep-2003 to 28-Sep-2003)
Sunjin Galleries
September 12th – 28th 2003
An artist who developed his own unique style known as “metaphysical realism”, a member of the Soviet underground art movement in the 1980s, and a man who has gained international recognition for his contributions to both the fields of science and the arts have placed Dr. Igor Smirnov in a class unto himself.
Smirnov’s intellectual imagination, extraordinary colour and shape consciousness, and the layering and unusual texturing methods he applies to his canvas are visually exciting and captivating.
Venue: Sunjin Galleries
43, Jalan Merah Saga
03-62 Work Loft @ Chip Bee
Singapore 278115
Tel: 67382317
Fax: 6738-0583
Gallery Hours: 11:30 am to 7:30 pm (Monday to Friday)
11:30 am to 6:00 pm (Saturday)
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