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You and Me BA (Hons) Fine Art Practice
Wong Gin Ming
Thread, Yarn, Found Objects, and Digital Catalogue
Dimensions Variable
Student Bio Project Description
Wong Gin Ming (b. 1994) is a Singapore-based artist, who At the heart, this project looks into the sense of oneness
mostly enjoys creating ridiculously peculiar objects out created by beings in a relationship. Often, we do not
of incredibly normal objects. Gin Ming graduated with a decide who we encounter and have in our lives – yet we
Diploma in Fine Art (with distinction) from the Nanyang are inevitably changed and influenced by the relationships
Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in 2019. Gin Ming had been we choose to keep. To allow others in our lives entails a
awarded the Tan Chin Tuan Merit Award (2017), the Tan willingness to be attached to them, even if this attachment
Chin Tuan Scholarship for Creative Education (2018), necessitates an allowance to be hurt and permanently
the NAFA Dean’s List award (2019) and the NAFA Entry perforated on our part. To be sewn to someone therefore,
Scholarship (2019). Gin Ming was also the Merit Award metaphorically, encompasses this entire notion of an
winner of the Singapore Creator’s Award (2019), and has intimate exchange and devotion between related individuals.
exhibited in various showcases, including the NAFA Best The objects selected and sewn together in this project come
of Best Show (2019). Gin Ming has also collaborated with from various real-life relationships, each object having once
key local and global organisations for art initiatives, such as belonged to individual parties shared in this connection. Yet,
OCBC Premier Client and Victory Family Center. She is also they come together to affectionately and unchangeably bind
the founder of her own start-up enterprise, ArtinMondays, to the other, embracing the other’s exclusive function – and it
where she sells a selection of her works in various mediums. is this connection that allows them to become a new object
altogether, producing a new, unique and collateral identity.
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B.o.B. 2020 S.O.A.D. Fine Art
