20 Japanese school children aged nine to 12 are here as part of the Miracle Kutchie Experience, a two-week art retreat programme organised by LASALLE College of the Arts and non-profit organisation Today Is The Day, for kids who had experienced the trauma and continue to live with the effects of radiation every day.
A Dose Of Art To Ease Fukushima Trauma
Though six years has passed since the tsunami caused the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, many living near the site are still in the midst of rebuilding their lives. Arguably, those most affected are the children – tender in years, they must try and make sense of the mental and physical trauma around them. In an effort to help them, Japanese non-profit organisations Today Is The Day and Children Are Our Future collaborated with LASALLE College of the Arts and New York University to run the Miracle Kutchie Experience.
Colour A Kid’s World, And Help Him Heal Through Art
Children take to art naturally. Combine this with the fact that the medium lends itself well to numerous avenues of self-expression, and Singapore is witnessing the field of art therapy gaining popularity. As Ho Soo Fung, an alumna of LASALLE’s MA Art Therapy programme who is presently a principal occupational therapist at the Institute of Mental Health noted, art therapy is a safe outlet for a child to communicate difficult feelings without actually having to verbally discuss it.
MM2 Entertainment to Produce Film Student's Maiden Full Length Feature
LASALLE BA(Hons) Film student Leroy Lim, director of the short film, I Believe, so impressed mm2 Entertainment that he has been offered the opportunity to work with them on producing his first full-length feature film. The 16-minute short film, a captivating and heartfelt story about autism, was created with fellow LASALLE schoolmates Nikko Koh as producer and Dhinesh Ravichandran as screenwriter, for the 20/20: The Temasek Short Film Project. The project concluded successfully with more than a million viewers and positive feedback on social media.
LASALLIANS Recognised as the President's 'Young Talents' of the Year
The much anticipated President’s Young Talents exhibition opened at the Singapore Art Museum on 25 January 2013. The exhibition showcases new commissioned works by Singapore’s most promising artists under the age of 35. Many of the past artists from the series have gone on to participate at international platforms and biennales.
Sonance: A Spatial Oeuvre’s Tuning In
A review of MA Fine Arts alumnus Jordi Forniés' solo exhibition Sonance: Sound as Body, Sound as Architecture.
Held at Chan + Hori Contemporary, the exhibition is part of the 2016 Chan-Davies Art Prize annual awards — offered to a graduand each from the BA(Hons) and MA Fine Arts Programmes at LASALLE. The article highlighted that Jordi "has created art with a unique artistic language that uses his clear understanding of materials and their textures to explore their correlation with sound, and hence with form in its cause and existence."
The Appearance Of An Exhibition: Space, Things, And Art
ArtHop sat down with five of the 11 MA Fine Arts graduands (Martha Chaudhry, Kanchana Gupta, Kathryn Kng, Justin Lee and Grace Tan) and Silke Schmickl, Curator, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, to delve into the process behind the making of the exhibition And the rest of such things: MA Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition, paying special attention to the materiality of the space itself and its implications for the creation of art.
Hour At The Museum: And The Rest Of Such Things
Critic's picks from And the rest of such things: MA Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition, showcasing eight selected works from the 11 graduating artists of MA Fine Arts Programme. Featuring multi-disciplinary works in a range of media including painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video, the exhibition highlights the intricacies and complexity of creative processes.
Established Artists Break New Ground With Experimental, Hybrid Works At LASALLE’s MA Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition
When local artist Justin Lee embarked on his final project for his Master’s in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts, it took him to an unexpected place – the heart of Singapore’s hawker centres, where he collected over 400 discarded tin cans of evaporated milk for a two-part installation. The work draws into focus his interest in social issues, which formed the topic of his Master’s thesis and research.
Artfully Everywhere On The Global Stage
Khai Hori, LASALLE MA Fine Arts alumnus, curator of the exhibition Sous la lune and Deputy Programming Director of Palais de Tokyo (Paris), speaks to Berita Harian about his journey as an art curator and the "eye-catching" exhibition now on at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts.
"Singapore has become the focus of Palais de Tokyo as it has become the hub of the art world for artists in the region of Southeast Asia," said Khai