Meridian Junior College: Graffiti Workshop

Meridian JC students signed up for the graffiti workshop conducted on Saturday afternoons. They are now planning to put up an exhibition of the works produced during the workshop.

The TAPAC mural project: Progress Report

Works-in-progress on the TAPAC mural at 182 Cecil Street, Singapore.

11th May 2007 – Work on 2nd of 3 walls.

7th May – Almost complete.

25th April 2007: The boom lift stalled again after heavy rain cleared … so we worked the lower parts. We learn to reserve the lower parts when the crane breaks down. Mostly caused by the site supervisor’s failure to top-up the diesel as required.

PIMP MY MASK: Activitieswhen work on the TAPAC mural is disrupted. There were many disruptions. Global warming is really showing, it rained a lot in April when it should not and its extremely hot when its sunny. The boom-lift crane breaks down rather often and it take days for their mechanic to appear.

Week 1: Sketching free-hand on the building facade with boom-lift access. Everyone thought we used projection or grids but no… we had to do it the hard way as the building is too close to the road and we decided to make modifications to the design along the way.

Speaking about batik at the Singapore Art Museum

Information below extracted from SAM’s website
http://www.nhb.gov.sg/SAM/ExhibitionsEvents/

Batik Art in Southeast Asia:
Tradition and Modernity
21 Apr 2007 2:00PM – 4:00PM
@ Singapore Art Museum Auditorium,
71 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189555
For enquiries, please call 6332 3220.

As the second installation of the Printmaking Series, this session introduces audiences to the background and practice of batik art in the different art traditions of Southeast Asian countries.To introduce the topic, first speaker Wang Zineng will be speaking on the history of batik art production. His presentation will focus upon two aspects in the study of batik painting’s emergence as a modern artistic expression in 1950s Malaya – the role of art patronage and the importance of considering material and practice-based aspects of batik painting. Second speaker Mohamed Kamal Bin Dollah is a Singaporean artist, designer and art educator. Kamal has been exploring batik-painting techniques in art-making since 1993, and regularly conducts batik workshops to schools under the National Arts Council’s art enrichment programme. His presentation will explore the various issues regarding the practice of batik art.

About the Speakers
Wang Zineng has recently completed his honours thesis on Malayan batik painting at Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore (NUS). He is presently an adjunct assistant curator at NUS Museum and his research interests cover aspects of Southeast Asian art history, material culture and visual anthropology.

Mohamed Kamal Bin Dollah is a Singaporean artist, designer and art educator. The former president (2002-2006) of Angkatan Pelukis Aneka Daya (APAD), an association of Malay artists; he recently completed his studies for Masters of Arts in Contemporary Practice from the University of Huddersfield (UK) & Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore). His research and practice investigates batik-painting in contemporary art-making.

Ping Yi Secondary Graffiti Workshop

Two classes of Secondary 3 and Art CCA group at Ping Yi Secondary School. That’s engaging more than 80 students in one graffiti session – our new record. With the help of One Two Delta, The Killer Gerbil, Dino Hafian, Wilmer Phuah & Glenn Davis. 

Festival of Life! 2007 Graffiti Workshop @ Anderson Junior College

Students were given the entire corridor for graffiti. The result of this customised programme was rather impressive considering that the participating students are not taking art as a subject and had little knowledge about graffiti prior to the 6 hours programme.

“Very hands-on, students proud of what they produced, quality of end-product is visually appealing.”

Mr. Andy Quek, Anderson Junior College