Artists Talk: INSTINC20 'lub-dub, lub-dub'

Venue: INSTINC, 39 Keppel Rd, #03-10 Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore 089065

Exhibition Duration: 19-27 October 2024 & 07-17 November 2024

Opening Reception: 18 October 2024, 6PM-8:30PM | RSVP Link

Curator Talk: 19 October 2024, 2PM-3PM | RSVP Link

Artists Talk: 19 October 2024, 3PM-5PM; 26 October & 09 November 2024, 3PM-4PM | RSVP Link

Opening hours: Wed-Fri 1-7pm, Sat and Sun 1-6pm. Closed on public holidays.

19 October 3PM-5PM

\ Valerie Ng \

Valerie Ng's abstract oil paintings explore colour, form, and texture, balancing dynamic strokes with gestural expressions of mood and movement. Inspired by the natural elements, her works evolve through an organic process to evoke an atmospheric feel.

She extends this unique energy into new media art, combining generative animations and projections or recycled papier-mâché and augmented reality to create digital experiences.

Her paintings have been exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum and the National Art Gallery, Malaysia. She has had solo exhibitions at the UOB Art Gallery, Maya, Mulan, the Substation, and Wetterling Teo Gallery, and participated in group exhibitions at 39+ Art Space, ultrasupernew, One East Asia, INSTINC, and Jendela Gallery at the Esplanade. Her work has been auctioned by Larasati and is held in private and corporate collections worldwide.

She won the Bronze Award at the 2018 UOB Painting of the Year competition and First Prize (Abstract) in the 2004 UOB POY in Singapore. She was a finalist in the 2019 Sovereign Asian Art Prize in Hong Kong and was selected for the Young Contemporaries in Malaysia in 2006. She attended The Slade Summer School of Art in the UK in 2002.

\ Michael Amter \

Michael Amter uses an exquisite personal vocabulary of metaphorical imagery. Recognized early for obsessive painting, then later for unique film experiments, the artist began serious artistic study at Washington University in St. Louis. A truly diverse background with extensive travel and international exhibitions, starting with the iconic 01 Gallery in Los Angeles during the 90’s. Michael’s history involves many known entities, including Apexart, Cité Internationale des Arts, Creative Time, CICA Museum, Gallery Aferro, INSTINC, Pierogi Gallery, Studio Kura, etc. The artist’s experimental video has been displayed throughout the world; screenings with the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Älvsbyn Film Festival, Filmfest Bremen, Festival Fotogenia, 4th Photometria in Motion, FilmArte Festival, MicroActs, Obskuur Ghent Festival, Festiwal On Art of Warsaw, 4th Dimension Independent Festival, Tokyo Lift-Off Festival, etc. Notable personal moments consist of a submission request by former director David Ross to the Whitney Biennial, work created for a 9-11 memorial exhibition inducted to the US Library of Congress, treasured visits with the Pore Pore special needs art class in Japan, and contributing to the OSHIBORI Linkage project for the Tokyo Biennale 2023.

\ Tina Yeung \

Tina YEUNG (b.1998), a Hong Kong emerging new media artist who works in image-based mediums. YEUNG graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2021.

YEUNG is interested in exploring the relationship between technology and images. She is fascinated by using scanning techniques to capture images, and building “real-fake” 3D models. As a media art lover, YEUNG is conscious of social media engagement. One of her works - “Anti-TikTok – Become a TikToker '' has been published in a magazine by Zurich University of the Arts.

YEUNG's practice evolved from installations to rendering 3D animations for social media platforms. She explores 3D prototyping to expand her knowledge in the realm of 3D.

Her works have been featured in group exhibitions including Pathfinder at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Germany (2020) ; The Ghosts in Walls at ITALIC, Germany (2020). In 2022, she was awarded the Best of 20 in INSTINC D:Art Festival 2022, Singapore. In 2023, she collaborated with Manet Tam to conduct a duo exhibition - "Humans Status Code: Error 503" at Arthome, Hong Kong. This year, she collaborated with Ian Tang, Ho Ming Yan and Valerie Mak - “A Very Big Instrument” at East Kowloon Cultural Centre, Hong Kong.

\ Jake Tan\

Jake Tan (b.1994) is a New Media Artist, Adjunct Lecturer at Nanyang Technological University, and Co-Founder of SERIAL COMMUNICATION, a studio that focuses on Research & Development of proprietary digital assets in the fields of Creative Technology, Blockchain, and Extended Reality(XR).

Jake's artistic practice focuses on the intersection between nature, technology, and society, where he has exhibited and was part of artistic residencies in Singapore, Austria, Germany, Japan & Istanbul. To create Jake's New Media Art, typically involves technological research & development in the following realms: physically through microcontroller and electronics programming, 3D printing, and scanning. Digitally through programming, AR/VR/MR production through game engines, and intangibly through projection mapping and XR-focused user interface and experience design.

His studio, SERIAL COMMUNICATION, was selected for incubation grants by Singapore Management University, and Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Media and Design, Singapore, where he also received his BFA degree in Interactive Media(2020), and MiniMasters™ in General Management(2021) in Nanyang Business School.

26 October 2024, 3PM-4PM

\ Andy Yang Soo Kit \

Andy Yang Soo Kit (b. 1973, Malaysia) is a multi-disciplinary Singapore-based artist whose practice has traversed the disciplines of painting, drawing, installation, as well as performance and music over the past two decades. With an abiding interest in expanding the visuality of painting – especially within the realm of abstraction – his explorations in oil, acrylic, and ink upon a variety of supports have demonstrated his technical virtuosity and dexterity across the range of media.

Inspired by strong emotions, Yang’s pursuit of painting is underscored by the fundamental impulse to create. In advancing expression over rationalization as an alternative cognitive approach, he builds forms and advances narratives led by intuition. His painterly compositions, informed by musical notions of counterpoint and harmony, find resolution upon the surfaces of his choosing – yielding comforting attunements of emotions rather than raw and literal displays.

\ Shin-Young Park \

Shin-Young Park is a Korean-born New Zealander who moved to Auckland with her family in 1991, and to Singapore in 2006. She completed both her BFA in 1998 and MFA in 2003 at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). Park is the recipient of the 2005 Iris Fisher Art Award (Best Contemporary Work) in Auckland and 2016 BAZAAR Art Prize (2D Work on Canvas) in Singapore. She has been nominated for the Most Outstanding Emerging Artist Award (New Finds) at ARTSingapore 2009, and represented Singapore at the 10th Triennale Mondiale de l'Estampe (2017) in Chamalières, France.

Park has participated in international residency programmes such as the 2014 Incheon Art Platform International Residency Program and 2012 Asia Pacific Artists Fellowship Residency Program organized by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. Her works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Singapore, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and France, and have been commissioned by Mandarin Oriental Hotel (2008) and Fullerton Bay Hotel (2010). With works spanning different themes and subjects, she is driven by an interest in global social issues, especially when it comes to matters affecting the lives of the underprivileged in society.

\ Ezzam Rahman \

Ezzam Rahman (b.1981, Singapore) is a multi-disciplinary artist known for his interest in the body and the use of common, easily accessible, yet unconventional media in his art practice. Working across sculpture, installation, digital media, and performance, he creates works that are often autobiographical, time-based, and ephemeral, aiming to pique viewers’ thoughts on the themes of body politics, identity, impermanence, traces, and abjection.

Ezzam lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. He was awarded a joint winner of the Grand Prize for the President's Young Talents 2015 and the People’s Choice Award by the Singapore Art Museum. In 2016, he received the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award and the Young Artist Award from the National Arts Council, Singapore. Ezzam won the Most Promising Award for photography at the PULSE Awards 2021. He served as artistic director for The Substation in 2021 and was involved in various prestigious programmes, including the NIE Visiting Artist Programme and NAC Our SG Arts Plan launch event.

09 November 2024, 3PM-4PM
\ Eunice Lim \

Eunice Hannah Lim (b.1992 Singapore) is an artist who is constantly inspired by historical documented narratives and how we navigate through constructed spaces. She uses an array of mediums such as drawing, painting, street murals, and weave storytelling elements into her art. Therefore, re-creating new shared experiences for viewers to engage with.

Eunice is interested in themes related to history, placemaking and how the community responds to surrounding landscapes today. Eunice's works have been exhibited in Singapore, Australia, Turkey, and New York.

She has been part of Artist-in-residence programmes such as Artsource Fremantle Residency (Perth, WA), BigCi Residency (Sydney), NPE Art Residency (Singapore). She was one of the finalists for Red Gate Gallery & Beijing City International School (BCIS) Artist-in-residence programme in 2018.

Born and raised in Singapore, Eunice graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from, Goldsmiths, College of London in partnership with LASALLE College of the Arts in 2014.

Eunice’s works have been exhibited in Singapore, Australia, Turkey, and New York. She has been part of Artist-in-residence programmes such as Artsource Fremantle Residency (Perth, WA), BigCi Residency (Sydney), NPE Art Residency (Singapore). She was one of the finalists for Red Gate Gallery & Beijing City International School (BCIS) Artist-in-residence programme in 2018.

\ Bridget Tay \

Bridget Tay is a Singaporean artist, ad-hoc curator to the independent and educator. With a knack for education, she has been teaching for 15 years strong.

She gained her Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014. A recipient of The LASALLE Scholarship in 2013 and is no stranger to both government and privately funded exhibitions, she recently curated and participated in EPILOGUE by The Artists Village for Singapore Art week 2022 and is the current president of The Artists Village. Bridget’s practice revolves around playing with cliches as commentaries on the socio-political landscape of the world, ultimately presenting the medium as the message in opposition to states of reality reflected in both art and the physical. Her formal explorations in painting look at the concept of space in conjunction with an expanded field of painting.

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