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24 January - 27 January 2019
SEA FOCUS 2019
Art Porters Gallery presents works by
Singaporean artists Jamie Teo and Priyageetha Dia
Gillman Barracks
9 Lock Road, Singapore 108937
left Golden Staircase by Priyageetha Dia right Interactions by Jamie Teo
Visit us at Booth B17
Art Porters Gallery presents, Singaporean artists Jamie Teo and Priyageetha Dia for SEA Focus Singapore 2019.
Art Porters Gallery was founded in 2014 by Guillaume Levy-Lambert and Sean Soh with a mission of sharing happiness with art. The gallery’s goal is to facilitate new buyers’ early steps into the art world, and experienced collectors’ appetite for promising artists’ works.
Jamie aims to investigate this effect of vision through exploring ideas of colour, light and visual perception in its relation to abstract painting to reveal the duality of space within them.
Dia is known for her controversial public work The Golden Staircase in 2017. Her practice stems into bridging the banality of lived spaces and the act of subversion using gold mediums.
left Golden Staircase by Priyageetha Dia right Interactions by Jamie Teo
Jamie Teo (b.1996, Singapore)
Jamie is a 2018 BA in Fine Arts graduate from LASALLE College of the Arts, and her art practice specialises in meticulously blending colours to both create and investigate its movement and serendipitous outcomes.
Jamie is interested in the sense of tension that boils between the stillness and phenomenal movement of an image. By creating works that lack a focal centre and that are without a balanced composition, our eyes are constantly on the move, this inability to focus on the image prompts contemplation between the viewer and the work, seeing and experiencing an intangible in-between.
BIOGRAPHY
Jamie Teo Lives and works in Singapore
EDUCATION
2016 - 2018 BA (Hons) Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore 2013 - 2016 Diploma Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
AWARD
2018 UOB Painting of the Year 2018 Silver, Emerging Artist Category
2016 The LASALLE Bursary (BA) The Winston Oh Travel Award
2015 The LASALLE Bursary (Diploma) CDC/CCC Arts Institution Bursary
ART RELATED EXPERIENCES
2016 Rainforest Carpark Mural Project, Lucky Plaza, Commissioned by Far East Organization; Singapore Silverarts Programme, Printmaking Workshop, Artist Assistant, National Arts Council; Singapore
2015 Internship with The PIA Studio, Conservation Studio Assistant Lexus Créme de la Créme, The Art of Inspiration, Commission work, Borneo Motors Singapore Pte Ltd Stamp Your Memories, National Arts Council Silverarts Programme, National Library Board, Singapore CapitaLand Pte Ltd, Work installation collaboration PassionArts Festival, Ulu Pandan Community Arts and Culture Club’s SG50 Facade, Singapore
2014 Site-specific Mural, DRIVE Public Art Project, Gillman Barracks 2nd Year Anniversary, Singapore
Kings Blue Light, Cadmium Yellow, Naples Yellow Red, Cadmium Red, oil on canvas, H80 x W69 cm
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018 The LASALLE Show 2018, College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
A Dive, Splendid!, LASALLE College of the Arts, Winstedt Campus, Singapore
Melange, LASALLE College of the Arts, Project Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2017 Between; +Project, Gallery Tomo, Kyoto, Japan
2016 The Measure of Things, The Winston Oh Travel Award, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
Between Walls, The LASALLE Show 2016, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
Gas and Dust: The Manufactured Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
The Pondok, Winstedt Campus, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2015 As Far As I Could Reach, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore SAVANTS: The Young Artists Among Us Exhibition, The Arts House Singapore
Drawn by the peculiar sensation of not being able to focus on any particular area within the surface of colours in Jamie’s abstract works, she invites viewers to experience a different approach to seeing by meticulously blending colours to both create and investigate its movement and serendipitous outcomes. Her paintings embody a sense of tension that boils between the stillness and phenomenal movement of colours that continually change the longer we observe them.
Jamie’s use of colour acts as a vehicle to move viewers around and within the paintings from intensities of colour to the absence of colour, the blurred edges strain and exaggerate vision where certain colours may hold the viewer's attention longer than another while some may be overlooked. Jamie is constantly fascinated by this phenomenal movement within her works where forms and colours drift freely as the concurrent awareness of form and non-form that derives from the intensification of vision.
Interactions (CMY) details, oil on canvas , W76 cm x H102 cm, 2018
Untitled (Cadmium Yellow Medium & Pale Rose Lake) Oil on canvas
W50cm x H60cm 2018
Untitled (Naples Yellow Red & Cobalt Blue) Oil on canvas
W50 x H60cm 2018
Untitled (Ultramarine Blue & Dioxazine Violet) Oil on canvas
W50cm x H60cm 2018
Untitled (Lemon Yellow, Turquoise Green & Ultramarine Blue) Oil on Canvas
W90cm x H120cm 2018
Untitled (Cadmium Red, Coral Pink & Yellow Lake)
Oil on canvas
W110cm x H150cm
2018
Untitled (Quinacridone Rose, Manganese Violet & Cobalt Blue) Oil on canvas
W90cm x H120cm2018
Untitled (Ultramarine Blue, Bright Green & Emerald Green) Oil on canvas
W110cm x H150cm 2018
Priyageetha Dia (b.1992, Singapore)
Dia is a young, emerging artist whose practice lean towards public site-specific installations. She graduated with a Bachelor (Hons) in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore. Dia has been actively showcasing her works since 2017, including her first solo exhibition titled "Upgraded" following her controversial golden flags public art installation , a collaboration with The Substation for Discipline the City campaign; a chapbook publication titled “A Public Square” by Singaporean author Adeline Chia.
“To redefine space into a space that provokes.” Provokes in all sense that the banality of everyday life is mediated with something glaring as gold. Through the alchemy of transformation, the significance of gold acts as a commentary on resistance. Contributing to the discourse of what constitutes art in Singapore, Dia continues to challenge limitations with new thinking of art in public spaces.
BIOGRAPHY
Priyageetha Dia Lives and works in Singapore
EDUCATION
2015- 2017 BA (Hons) Fine Arts LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
AWARD
2016 Safeguard (Procter & Gamble) Print Advertisement; Eyeka.com, 1st Prize 2012 Breeze Print Advertisement; Eyeka.com, 3rd Prize 2012 Stand Up for Japan Print Advertisement; Eyeka.com, Showcased in Tokyo Substation 2011 Tikvesli Print Advertisement; Eyeka.com, 3rd Prize 2010 Istana On-The-Spot Art Competition, Singapore Art Museum (SAM), 1st Prize
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2018 Women in Art - Round Table Discussion, SCWO, Singapore Upgraded – Artist Talk, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore'Street Art and Cultural Value: the place of art in a public city’, Panel Speaker Yale-NUS Singapore ‘Conversations: If Walls Could Talk’, Panel Speaker, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Upgraded (Golden Flags I), 2018, gold mylar film with red stencil spray, H210 x W160 cm
2018 Re-Imagine Goodman Arts Open House, SingaporeTropical Escapism856 G Gallery, Cebu, PhilippinesUpgraded (Solo Exhibition)Art Porters Gallery, Singapore To leave home is already half the journey McNally School of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
2017 RUANG, Singapore87% Multiculturalism The Yellow Cage, SingaporeLight Field 2017 Science Centre SingaporeMultiply: A Majestic PlaygroundNew Majestic Hotel, SingaporeThe LASALLE Show Exhibition 2017 LASALLE McNally Campus, SingaporeWinstedt Graduation Showcase: Open Circuits LASALLE Winstedt Campus, SingaporeBA(Hons) Fine Arts Works-In-Progress Show: neither glimmer nor ghost Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
2016 ARTWALK Little IndiaLASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
NEWS/PUBLICATION/INTERVIEW
2018 On the Scene with Eugene, 938 Now FM GOLDFINGER, Plural Art Magazine [link]Meet Singapore’s golden girl Priyageetha Dia, Time Out Singapore [link]Female Midas Depicts Alternative Golden Perspective Through Visual Art, Artlyst [link] Foiled Again: Can Singapore Respect Minority Voices? Popspoken.com [link]Gilded with Law, Patorikku.net [link]Artsequator Fresh Blood Podcast Interview 34 [link]
Artist behind 'golden staircase': New artwork at HDB block removed in 'hushed manner', Yahoo [link] Singapore artist behind 'golden staircase', hangsflags at HDB, Channel News Asia [link]Golden Flags,The Straits Times [link]
2017 FEMALE Magazine F-Influential List, November issue [link] Faithless Translation,OFF ZOOS Issue 6.1 [link] Issue 01 “A Public Square” Discipline the City, Adeline Chia, The Substation
A Wide Field of Contestation, Y.S. Pek & Jee Leong Koh [link] The Art of Walking a Fine and Golden Line, Patorikku.net [link]
Young S’poreans explore issues of ethnicity through art, TODAYOnline [link] Next chapter: ‘Golden staircase’ artist leaves golden books in public spaces, Channel News Asia [link]
Artists, craftsmen to collaborate on special showcase at New Majestic Hotel, TODAYOnline [link]
Special memories from my HDB corridor, The Straits Times [link] Health is wealth, and so are the arts, The Straits Times [link] Be creative, but respect public spaces, The Straits Times [link] Finding common ground over public decorations, The Straits Times [link] Art student returns golden staircase to grey concrete, The Straits Times [link] 'Gold' stairs: Art or vandalism? The Straits Times [link]
Self-censorship 24 karat gold leaf on acrylic mirror
H133 x W213 cm 2019
A framed mirror and a block of 24k gold in the centre, stripped away of its shine and reflection. The vigorous, gestural marks reveal a scratched surface over the mirror.
The work is an ode to the removal of The Golden Staircase in March 2017. The coverage of the stairs was prominent than the removal of it. The scrubbing off the gold from the cement ground, was an act of censoring in the process of removal. As an artist in Singapore, the liberty to produce art is governed with restrictions. And there is a need to adapt art so that it does not breach any code of laws.
Self-censorship is a reflective state of the artist individual and the society in Singapore.
Object of Desire 24 karat gold leaf on polyethylene bin D60 cm x H98cm 2019
Green, and now gold.
The obscurity of a dustbin along every road or every corner becomes part of our everyday reality. The nature of this object acts as a vessel to hold waste and in that sense, it is participatory in a social environment. An object of undesirability is an object of oversight.
The alchemy of this object, modelled in polyethylene plastic is now coated with 600 leaves of 24k gold. The presence of something so banal is now revered into an art object. The removal of its functionality transgresses it into a sculptural state. The fragility of the exterior is encased within a plastic interior, retaining the original from inside.
Object of Desire confronts our necessity in transforming our understanding of an art object through the discourse of its nature and the value of it in gold. The desirability of its opulence challenges the role of social satire confronting the commodification of luxury over function.
GALLERY INFO
Art Porters Gallery, 64 Spottiswoode Park Road, Singapore 088652 +65 6909 0468 Daily from 10.30am to 7.00pm (Monday by appointment)
Guillaume Levy-Lambert [email protected] +65 9815 1780
Sean Soh [email protected] +65 9105 9335
Melvin Sim [email protected] +65 9144 7468
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ISBN:
All Rights Reserved 2018. Su-en Wong’s Domestication II catalogue was published by Art Porters Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition.
