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Wendy Chua Wenni He is the founder of award-winning Liu Wen-Chun
Part-Time Lecturer, 3D Design firm Spirit Of Design Analogy, Part-Time Lecturer, Dance
which won the Gold Award at
A founder of design collective the 2015 Design Excellence Wen-Chun was awarded the Most
Outofstock, Wendy worked Awards and was the sole winner Promising Work prize at the sixth
with Scanteak in a yearlong in the Installation Design category edition of SPROUTS, a national
collaboration to produce Prologue, for the design of Illuminate’s dance choreography competition
an elegant collection of stylish exhibition space. Illuminate was co-presented by the National Arts
home pieces with the Japanese an installation by NAFA’s Fashion Council and Frontier Danceland.
market in mind. Prologue has Studies programme, showcased at She was awarded the prize for
garnered several accolades the Peranakan Museum during the her choreography Tensegrity,
including the SG Mark at the Singapore Night Festival 2015. performed by NAFA Dance students.
Singapore Good Design Mark As an independent artist, Wen-Chun
Awards 2015; the IPOS Award Dr Lim Poh Teck has worked with internationally
for Design Innovation as part of Lecturer, Design and Media renowned choreographers and
the WIPO-IPOS IP Awards 2015; entities like Janis Brenner (USA),
the Design of the Year award at Dr Lim held his sixth solo exhibition, Zvi Gotheiner (Israel), Roh Sik Hyun
the President’s Design Award also his second in Singapore, titled (Korea), Luca Veggetti (Italy), Kevin
2015; and was a winner of Japan’s Acculturate from 9 to 28 October Wynn (USA), Dance Ensemble
Good Design Award 2015. Wendy 2015 at Utterly Art. Acculturate Singapore (Singapore), Kun-Yang Lin/
was also featured in The Straits embodies the accumulative Dancers (USA), Olive Prince Dance
Times for creating jewellery out of research, creative work and (USA) and the Taipei Royal
obsolete hardware parts together development of Dr Lim’s art. Ballet (Taiwan).
with jewellery designer Yuki He has represented Singapore
Mitsuyasu and installation artist in many international exhibitions,
Xin Xiao Chang, which culminated workshops and symposiums,
in an installation titled He Yi: and has also won many awards,
A Rare Installation in a Workshop. including the Grand Prize in the
9th UOB Painting of the Year
Competition in 1990 and the Young
Artist Award from the National Arts
Council in 1997 for his outstanding
achievements in the arts industry.
Tung Ching Yew Dr Joyce Beetuan Koh
Part-Time Lecturer, 3D Design Vice Dean (Interdisciplinary Studies),
Office of Academic Affairs
Ching Yew is a multi-disciplinary
designer who has worked on Fingerprints, a new work for
projects both locally and overseas eight instruments composed by
in countries such as the USA, Dr Koh, premiered at the Haydn
China, Myanmar, Thailand, Hall in Vienna on 5 March 2016.
Indonesia and Malaysia. Commissioned and performed by
Austria’s Reconsil Ensemble, this
27 work was recorded and published
in a CD as part of their project
titled Exploring the World, released
by Orlando Records.
