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SingaPlural – The Tin Can People
Celebrating Design 2015
Students of the BA (Hons) in Theatre Arts (English Drama)
Students from the School of Art & Design (SOAD) participated presented Harold Pinter’s play, The Tin Can People, which
in SingaPlural 2015, the anchor event of the Singapore Design revolves around a community of survivors living off food from tin
Week 2015. The first project, ‘Design+Makers,’ featured an cans in warehouses, 17 years after the nuclear holocaust.
installation comprising of 3-dimensional design, an art installation A stranger is welcomed into the midst but when a group
and a showcase combining typography and fashion. member drops dead, the stranger is assumed to be
Besides ‘Design+Makers’ at SingaPlural, the Fine Art contaminated. As the deaths multiply, the group leader decides
Programmes presented two outdoor exhibits by our 2nd that the stranger must be hunted down and killed. The play
and 3rd-year sculpture students. They responded to an open - directed by Senior Lecturer Matt Grey - challenged the
call by Singapore Furniture Industries Council (SFIC) students’ artistic capabilities as they portrayed the fear and
Landscape Art Competition, using dried leaves, moss, struggles faced by these traumatised people.
planters and drainage cells to explore ideas of urban
development in Singapore.
Journey in Art:
Retrospective Exhibition
by Fan Shao Hua
Born in China in 1963, Fan Shao Hua was trained at the
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Fan later arrived and settled
in Singapore in 1992, integrating into the local surroundings
and people while drawing inspiration from his new environment.
He is known to be highly exploratory in his practice as he fuses
Chinese and Western painting techniques and concepts
in his works.
In this retrospective exhibition, Fan showcased over 60 works
spanning his artistic career, including 30 Singapore-themed pieces.
