The Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Europe’s largest centre for contemporary art, presents its first collaboration here with a Singapore institution – a major exhibition at the LASALLE College of the Arts.
Sous la lune, or Beneath The Moon, curated by Mr Khairuddin Hori, Palais de Tokyo’s deputy director of artistic programming and a Lasalle alumnus, is an immersive show that focuses on cross- cultural exchanges through art.
MA Art Therapy Programme Leader, Ron Lay, sheds light on the discipline and what it takes to study Art Therapy at LASALLE, while alumni Laurence Vandenborre (Founder of The Red Pencil) and Rosita Lui (President of the Art Therapists’ Association Singapore) share their thoughts on the science of the practice and its rapid growth in Singapore.
It was at the tender age of five that Millicent Wong started her LASALLE education – as a young student of dance at the old LASALLE campus on Goodman Road, where she met the College’s late founder, Brother Joseph McNally.
Millicent graduated today with a Diploma in Performance as the College’s top student and the recipient of its most prestigious honour, the McNally Award for Excellence in the Arts.
Each year, Singapore’s two art institutions, LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, train a total of more than 200 fresh visual artists. The article features interviews with top Fine Arts graduands from LASALLE and NAFA. Featuring LASALLE graduands Rachel from Diploma and Hyrol from BA(Hons), they talked to the reporter about the concept of their graduating works and how LASALLE has contributed to their thinking and growth as an artist.
Berita Harian interviewed and profiled five outstanding students who graduated with First Class Honours from design, fashion and fine arts at LASALLE College of the Arts this year.
BA(Hons) Fine Arts graduate Naufal Abshar shared that his parents were confident that an education at LASALLE would provide him with various opportunities to grow his creative talent when interviewed by Berita Harian, together with Asanul Nazryn Mohd Nazi on their involvement in Art Moves, A travelling showcase by emerging artists by BA(Hons) Fine Arts, Class of 2015. Naufal and Nazryn are two of 11 alumni artists whose works are being exhibited for sale at tcc cafes around Singapore as part of the year-long collaboration.
Interview with BA(Hons) Fine Arts alumnus Faris Nakamura on his Grand Prize win at the Kobe Biennale. Faris' work, a sculpture that encourages people to come together and take photos with the beautiful views of the sea and city of Kobe as a backdrop, beat 40 other entries from established artists around the world to take home the Shitsurai Art Grand Prize and 2 million yen.
Interview with BA(Hons) Fine Arts alumnus Faris Nakamura on his Grand Prize win at the Kobe Biennale. Faris' work, a sculpture that encourages people to come together and take photos with the beautiful views of the sea and city of Kobe as a backdrop, beat 40 other entries from established artists around the world to take home the Shitsurai Art Grand Prize and 2 million yen.
Curated by BA(Hons) Fashion Media and Industries Level 2 students, Shanghai 3.0 featured contemporary Asian fashion photography housed at The Deck art space.
Ranging from fashion images, to films and installations, the exhibition adapted Shanghai 1930s’ narratives, using visual cues from the era and moulding them into a contemporary fashion language to depict the story of how fashion and visual culture evolved in Shanghai in the 21st century.
This season, LASALLE College of the Arts in collaboration with TANGS presents a ready-to-wear collection by students from 2015’s BA(Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles Programme. The collection features 150 pieces specially created for TANGS: six diffusion lines inspired by the students’ own graduate collections, themed SG50 – Capsule.
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