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STAR LECTURERS

Grace Leong Yit Ming
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, Chiew Sien Kuan
Learning Enhancement
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader, Fine Art

Grace Leong was commissioned by the National Museum
of Singapore (NMS) to create and facilitate a film-movement Chiew Sien Kuan participated in various group exhibitions
workshop for families. The workshop, held at NMS in in 2017 and 2018. Moving Mountains featured a small
May 2017, was inspired by renowned French director collection of paintings and sculptural works by Chiew
Jacques Tati’s film, and organised in conjunction with Sien Kuan, Boo Sze Yang and Tay Bak Chiang, and was
French Festival Singapore 2017. presented at Artsembly, Esplanade Mall. The artists have
worked consistently over two decades to forge a personal
and distinctive artistic vision. Their works in this exhibition
In July 2017, in collaboration with actress Chin Teo from
Penang, Leong conducted a physical theatre workshop for attempted to capture nature, not only as they experience
families, at Penang’s Hin Bus Depot, a community art space. it, magnificent, enchanting, unpredictable, but the idea that
In addition, Noise Performance House invited her to direct reality in nature lies within a state of randomness.
a children’s musical drama, Duo Duo 3 Be Like Edelweiss,
for George Town Festival 2017. The sold-out performance, dr/op: Beyond Boundaries presented a diverse range of
held at the Performing Arts Centre of Penang from 11 to artworks by 25 artists from Japan, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore,
th
13 August 2017, received 10 nominations at the 15 ASLI the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Drama Awards including Best Director. Many of these artists often create works that respond to
a culturally diverse and multifaceted global environment.
Leong was also invited to be the main judge for the 2017 The works on view ranged from the process-derived to the
Malaysia’s High School Mandarin Drama Competition, held conceptual, from representation to abstraction and took on
in Penang on 4 June 2017. a variety of formats such as painting, photograph, collage,
sculpture, installation and performance.
When Space Dissolves into Luminosity; Where Flowers
Bloom Amidst Rocks comprised works by 10 Singaporean
artists, examining how the artists of today approach
questions of authenticity, while navigating this complex
world. Within the visual imageries of Chiew lies a burgeoning
sense of detachment from the physical world, where space
seems to dissolve into luminosity and manifest into a
OUR TALENTS
utopian state.

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