Arts in Service | Playback Theatre in Philippines
As students and aspiring artists of School of the Arts, we constantly question whether art has any greater purpose beyond aesthetics. Can art be a means of social change? Can art be used to serve the larger picture? In June last year, as part of an overseas serve learning project, a group of theatre students...
Sim Teow Li
In a country where the arts scene is still being nurtured, the phrase ‘Singaporean writer’ might seem like an irony to many. For Sim Teow Li, that is but who she is. One Sunday morning, I had a chat with her at Café Au Jardin by Les Amis against the beautiful backdrop of the Singapore...
The Annual Nanyang Polytechnic School of Design Graduation Show. UNIT13: Will you have it RAW?
The word ‘raw’ might give you an idea of incompletion, but ‘raw’ also reflects a bold, original quality that derives from freshness. We are the freshest batch from Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Design, presenting to you Unit 13: RAW, our Graduation Show. For more teasers and updates, visit their facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/UNIT13RAW Remember...
Stephen Vuillemin: ‘Spleen Enthousiast’
In 2012, Oxford University Press crowned ‘GIF’ as the word of the year. GIFs are compressed file formats that can be utilised to create simple looping animations. Illustrator Stephen Vuillemin makes great use of this wonderful image format to enchance his artwork. His animated illustrations are vibrant, humorously gritty and positively unusual. Stephen has...
Worlds Apart Art Fair 2013
The Worlds Apart Fair began on Friday, the 25th of January and lasted for three days at the Conrad Centennial Hotel in Singapore. It featured artworks from all over the world, ranging from local artists such as Eunice Lim and the crew of Vertical Submarine to established art galleries from abroad such as the...
Totally Illustrated | Olivia Rose
Based in Hertfordshire, Olivia Rose has been drawing since she was young but started focusing on her drawings deeply when she was 16. She sold her artworks at Camden Market and specializes in fantasy art. Today, ActuallyMAG briefly speaks to the talented artist about her artworks. Hi Olivia! What is the link to...
Totally Illustrated | Nicholas Lokasasmita
21 years of age and a passion for painting and the arts since childhood, ActuallyMAG speaks to the talented Nicholas Lokasasmita of Jakarta Indonesia about his artworks and the artists who are his influences. Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Nicholas Lokasasmita, but can just call me nico. As...
Fashion Illustrators Series | Hisyam
Most of us know fashion illustrations for their distinctive assotication with style and beauty. There is no doubt about that, however there is so much more to fashion illustrations. This time, pay close attention to the illustrator’s use of colours, textures, movement and flow, collage and even mixed media techniques. Each one of them...
SALVADOR DALI Exhibition at ARTSCIENCE Museum
When plans to eat, sleep and shop in Singapore run dry, one could always flock to the newly built ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands to immerse himself in an emulsion of culture and creativity. Currently at the foundation of its existence, the location itself is breathtaking. Picture a lotus, only in metal, a lone...
The Guilty Ones
Think cabaret, with singing and dancing, bright lights, short skirts, a myriad of crimson and black and a pair of bright yellow eyes watching as the drama unfolds. This year, Stage 52 a co-curricular activity (CCA) under the School of Film and Media Studies (FMS) of Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP), drawing inspiration from the sexiness...
UnCENSORED | Totally SFW
UnCENSORED, for some, is Thailand’s solution to anyone who seeks to live an edgy, modern lifestyle but can’t find the wares. UnCENSORED stocks well-designed items that are selected to leave their customers with freedom from having to ‘censor’ their creativity or creative expressions. Available items are created by edgy designers who are passionate in a...
Bangkok | The READING Room
The Reading Room is one of Bangkok’s most exciting contemporary art spaces that functions both as an art library and a place for alternative programs to commercial museums and galleries. Young and dynamic Narawan Pathomvat set up The Reading Room in 2009 when she was just 29. “I always hoped to achieve something concrete professionally...
Profiling | Ferdi Trihadi
Ferdi Trihadi's artworks often leave viewers with a distinct impression that there's something he's not entirely revealing. While his works are mostly humorous and whimsical in nature, subjects are often cast into dubious and compromising situations, forcing viewers to second guess his intentions.
When A Gray Taiwanese Cow Stretched
This year’s Singapore Arts Festival, with the theme of ‘I Want to Remember’, alludes to the lingering influence of history and memory. Time is stretched out as an unbreakable thread in which past, present and future are necessarily considered in relation to each other. This was demonstrated in the Japanese play, When A Gray Taiwanese...
Gallery of Icons
It all started with the assembling of random images from my books a year ago. The process was simple and straightforward: it began with the sticking of post-it notes on selected pages, followed by cutting and scanning the chosen pictures, and lastly printing the final images onto the T-shirts. Slowly, a collection formed, and I...
Profiling | ZXEROKOOL
You might have seen his artwork on our Project Nippon bags. You might have seen his work for MTV, Tiger Beer, Feiyue, Nike or New Balance. You might know him better as Jonathan Leong. Heck, you might know him for a lot of other things because this guy is simply amazing. Jonathan, otherwise known as...
Profiling | Bobbi’s Pole Studio
Keep it in your pants, boys. Not everyone who pole dances is like a certain Lohan in a certain show where the character somehow knows who killed her. Don’t worry we are equally confused. Jokes aside, let me reiterate that the people at Bobbi’s Pole Studio are serious pros in the business. As we stepped...
GRAPHICA + CRAFT VICTORIA
Life is moving at a pace too fast. In this day and age where libraries of information are available at a flick of our fingers; it was a strange feeling to just slow down and take in the pieces of art at gallery exhibitions. In these spaces, it feels like time comes to a standstill,...
The Marvel of “20 FRENCH DESIGN ICONS”
When you have support from the embassy of France, you know that the exhibition is probably more than worthy of your time and attention. Proudly presented by NAFA and Alliance Francaise de Singapour, the travelling exhibition, “20 FRENCH DESIGN ICONS”, touches down in Singapore and is now ongoing at NAFA’s Lim Hak Tai gallery. The...
The ANIMALISTIC Misfit
Many times, artist Muhammad Khairullah felt that he is part of the minority that is not being taken seriously. Funny yet serious, his series of paintings portray the “sad but true” nature of the society we live in. By infusing elements of humour into the paintings, the animals have now been removed from its original...
A CANVAS
Why is ‘art’ important? What constitutes ‘art’? How does one ‘appreciate’ art? In a country where art is still largely in the domain of artsy folks, hipsters and wannabes; any sort of answer to the above questions will go a long way to instilling a culture for art appreciation, understanding and hopefully creation into this society of...
UNCONVENTIONAL + QUIRKY
LANZAVECCHIA + WAI is a creative collaboration between Francesca Lanzavecchia and Hunn Wai. To them, being designers means being researchers, engineers, craftsmen and story-tellers all at the same time. Wai hails from the south-east Asian island state of Singapore, educated as an industrial designer at the National University while Lanzavecchia received her BA in Product...
Capturing The Spirits Of The ARTS
She is now the go-to person for some of the most collectable artworks in Thailand. Panada Lerthattasin grew up in Bangkok where her life was pretty normal until she went to Pratt Institute in New York City where it became clear to her as she completed her Masters degree in Arts and Cultural Management what...
