Page 31 - Year in Review 2018/2019

GET THE BEAT ASIA DANCE
COMPETITION

Students from our first batch of the Ballet Gifted Programme
won four prizes at the Singapore round of the highly
anticipated Get the Beat Asia competition. Two of our talented
students went on to shine at the Asia round that took place on
28 November 2018 in Singapore. Winners Angeline Lee
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Lin Zhen and Puah Ying Tsi clinched the 3 Prize and Platinum
Award respectively in the Solo category (age 7 & under).

PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES AND MATTER:
JAPANESE PRINTS OF THE 1970S

Focusing on print expressions from the 1970s, this visual exhibition,
held from 21 April to 20 May 2018, featured 52 artworks by 14 artists
who helped to develop a unique print movement in the world of
Japanese contemporary art. It comprised two sections — The Age
of Photographic Images, which focused on the use of photographic
images in the print medium; and Images of Autonomous Matter,
which focused on works that were shaped by the intentions of matter.
Visitors marvelled at the exceptional works of these renowned artists,
which exemplified a range of highly skilled techniques including
silkscreen, woodblock, lithograph and metal print.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a dialogue session ‘Language of
Prints: Images and Matter’ was held on 11 May 2018 for the School
of Art and Design students. The guest speaker, Noriaki Seo, Curator,
Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, shared his unique insights
and experiences in printmaking. By relating contemporary practices,
Seo gave students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge on
printmaking and stimulate ideas on how to deliver creative concepts
through the use of print media and materials.

NOW AND THEN: THOMAS YEO

From 28 April to 13 May 2018, our time-capturing exhibition
featured around 60 works from Thomas Yeo who, born in 1936,
is NAFA’s first Distinguished Alumni Medalist and 1984 Cultural
Medallion recipient. Yeo is recognised for his abstract,
collage (mixed media) and gouache landscapes inspired by
his sojourns around Asia. Visitors admired recent gouache
landscapes as well as his abstract works from two periods.
Now consisted of a culmination of works completed in the
last decade, and Then served to highlight Yeo’s early foray
into modern art with works executed between the 1960s and
1990s. The exhibition uncovered the parallels and a distinctive
style in his repertoire between the two eras over the past five
decades. Yeo is also recognised as one of the foremost modern
art practitioners locally, with his body of works influencing the
development of modern art in Singapore since the 1960s. His
work continues to redefine classical standards of landscape and
portraiture today.

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