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Monday, September 06, 2004
Iskandar Jalil's blue-tinted pots will roll out from the artist's new workshop in Jurong from next month. Mr Iskandar, 64, will work at a pottery centre in Jalan Bahar. He is renting the space for $300 a month.

The public has taken an interest in this move as Mr Iskandar's kiln of 43 years had to be dismantled when it was found by the authorities to have exceed the safetly limits at residential areas. This excess could not be overlooked as a neighbor has had made a complaint to the authorities. Thereafter, a series of letters and appeals to the artistic authorities was made by the artist.

In the last few weeks, the artist has been moving his equipment, worth about $80,000 SGD, to the pottery centre set up by the Singapore Tourism Board.

The 0.5 ha centre will have open studios and exhibition spaces. Mr Benson Ng of Focus Ceramic Services, which operates the centre, said it would have at least 10 potters' wheels, 3 gas kilns and 2 electric kilns. Potters can rent work space in the open studio for $35 a day, $150 a week or $260 a month. The centre will host tour groups and visits from schools.

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