Fine Arts

Programme Information

Duration: 3 Years

Award: BA(Hons) Fine Arts

With Specialisms:
Art Photography, Drawing, Graphic Novel, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Time-Based Art

The study of Fine Arts is a process of continual debate and questioning; of exploring and interrogating set perspectives. Contemporary fine art practice constantly negotiates with its surroundings and histories, in a role that is subversive and ever-changing.

This programme situates itself at the crossroads of contemporary Western and Asian cultures, acknowledging the demands of different worldviews. It unites specialised areas, from traditional disciplines to newer art forms, providing wider options of expression relevant to the global evolution of fine arts.

You can undertake one of seven specialisms:

Painting studies begins with the study of pigment-based methods of representing reality to a broad range of media, ideas, and approaches; and in finding and developing a critical and professional context for your practical and theoretical explorations.

Printmaking explores the elements of trace beyond the boundaries of paper, combining techniques to contextualise ideas through an innovative approach towards traditional and digital media, and introduces all forms of autographic printmaking, including among others, lithography, relief, and screen printing. Sculpture aims at students who are interested in expanding and evolving the nature of contemporary sculpture within fine art practice. It also seeks to explore and examine the continued role and significance of traditional mediums and processes alongside emerging and non-traditional genres within contemporary sculpture.

Art Photography covers photography and lens-based media arts in the traditional context of fine arts. You will be encouraged to explore the boundaries of the medium and engage with current photographic discourse.

Drawing offers an opportunity to explore drawing in its own right and tests its currency as a mode of expression within a diverse contemporary context. Graphic Novel explores the relationships between the concepts 'graphic novel' or 'comic book' and 'popular culture' which you derive from your experiences, readings, and discussions.

Time-based Art supports experimental works in digital technologies that utilise time as a key element, involving performance, animation, kinetics, and electronic interactive installations, sound, and telecommunication. This specialism develops the critical awareness through a close study of histories, moving image, and the use of technology and the human body.

Level 1 presents the different disciplines and theoretical approaches needed for an exploration of Fine Arts, introducing you to social and historical frameworks that will inform your practice. Level 2 hones an understanding of new techniques, inspiring you to apply intellectual, visual, and practical skills towards your proposed research projects. Level 3 consolidates the previous levels and culminates in a thesis for a degree exhibition.

Teaching Methods: You will have the opportunity to work in the studio and attend workshop electives in specialised workshop spaces. You will attend lectures, seminars and critique presentations. There will be regular guest lecturers by international artists, curators and scholars who will bring valuable experience and knowledge. You will participate in class presentations, complete written assignments and put together a research portfolio. You will be assessed every semester for all modules.

Assessments: Assessment is an integral part of the learning process, and will be formative and diagnostic as well as summative and evaluative, providing feedback to students wherever appropriate. Read more about assessments here.

Modules

(Specialism: Art Photography, Drawing, Graphic Novel, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Time-based Art)

Level 1

Practical Studio
This module introduces you to the specialisms available within the Fine Arts discipline through studio-based projects. Approaches to a common theme will be explored using practices and facilities particular to the chosen specialism.

Studio Electives
Studio Electives are designed as an introduction and supplement to the studio practical specialism. This module serves as a rigorous and unique examination of personal assumptions regarding the processes and materials traditionally associated with art making.

Contextual Studies
The Contextual Studies module comprises two components: Art History and Theory of Art. This interrelation facilitates a critique of existing art historical practice, and introduces you to fundamental theoretical concepts and philosophical ideas that underpin historical art movements and artworks.

Level 2

Practical Studio
The core drawing skills that are discipline-related are further developed and honed, enabling you to respond to the increasing demands of the programme. You will experience an involvement in research methods, both in relation to their practice and in the field of contemporary art.

Studio Electives
The module progressively introduces you to the components of Studio Electives in relation to your studio practice. The workshop component comprises technical workshops to broaden your experience in a range of Fine Arts interdisciplinary electives.

Contextual Studies & Professional Practice
This module examines a number of key themes and debates associated with 20th Century art and cultural politics. You will be exposed to key issues in contemporary art, in the Western as well as Asian contexts.

Level 3

Practical Studio
You are expected to consolidate your work independently and apply relevant skills to a self-directed body of artwork. The further development of research methods, in both practice and the field of contemporary art, enable you to consolidate and resolve a final body of work.

Studio Electives
Studio Electives looks into the expansive nature of interdisciplinary areas by introducing a broad range of conceptual, thematic and technological-based mediums that will complement your research topic. It will further emphasise the investigative experiences and challenges you to incorporate the previously learnt methods into your research.

Contextual Studies and Professional Practice
This module exposes you to the components of Contextual Studies in relation to your studio practice. Research projects and seminars enable you to independently examine the relationship between theoretical concepts and studio practice. It further highlights the essential points in being a practising artist within the constantly changing art climate.

Faculty Members

Postgraduate Studies

Dr Ian Woo
Programme leader / Senior Lecturer Ian Woo has exhibited both internally and locally, with acquisitions of his works by major institutions like UBS, Singapore Management University, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, United Overseas Bank, Tomio Koyoma Gallery in Japan, ABN AMRO and Mint Museum of Craft & Design. His involvement in research was on the language of abstract painting to possess the ability to express notions of a continuous presence. His ideas of momentary paintings are influenced by speech and contemporary music compositions. He has held 5 individual exhibitions and he is seen as influential artist with works/from his output of paintings that pushes the envelope of painting as a reflexive language of shifting representations between memory and time. His interdisciplinary practice includes his fascination with making improvisational music, where he is seen as a participator, playing the bass guitar with several improvised noise rock outfits, namely I\D and Path Integral.

Adeline Kueh
Currently a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Fine Arts, her previous stints include being the Director of the Intermedia Lab with the Office of Research & Creative Industries, as well as Director of Studies, Art Theory & Art History in the college. She had also established the MA Art History programme, the first online programme (with a Southeast Asian angle) for Lasalle. Rooted in cultural studies, her research interests include notions of monstrosity within Southeast Asian contexts, smart fashion, architecture and the future of cinema. She has chaired and presented at a number of cultural studies conferences in UK, Australia, Finland and Hungary. Adeline has also produced installations and interventionist projects within the collaborative MatriXial Technologies in Germany, the Netherlands and USA. Presently, she is also a consultant for a number of research, lifestyle and design projects, including being a consultant lecturer for the MA Art Business programme with Sotheby's Institute of Art, Singapore.

Undergraduate Studies

Salleh Japar
Salleh is the Programme Leader, Undergraduate Studies / Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts. Winner of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Visual Art Award (1996) & Singapore Youth Award (Art and Culture) from the National Youth Council, Salleh represented Singapore in 2001, 49th Venice Biennale. Salleh Japar trained at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts. He went on to obtain his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia in 1990. A lecturer at his Singaporean alma mater between 1990 and 1995, Salleh Japar was appointed member on Course Validation as well as to the Overseas Student Council following his Pg Dip in Art Education at the University of Central England, United Kingdom, in 1996. Salleh has also been a volunteer art tutor at the Handicap Welfare Association and an Assistant Curator of Art at the National Museum in Singapore. Recipient of many grants and scholarships for his art and discipline, Salleh has participated and exhibited in more than 60 programmes and exhibitions in Singapore and internationally.

Hazel Lim
Hazel is a visual artist who completed her postgraduate degree in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts in 2008 and has a Bachelor degree in Sociology and Statistics. Trained in painting, she frequently employs installation, photography and objects to express her concerns about notions of displacement, construction of histories and imaginary landscapes. Her latest research, however led her to create works that question representation itself, articulated through works that include objects, text, paper folding, interactive workshops and presentations. Besides being an artist and teacher, she has experiences in other aspects of art such as gallery management and contributing to artistic publications. She had taken part in group exhibitions showcased in Singapore, Ireland and Vietnam and participated extensively in international artists exchange programs such as the ASEF Creative Camp 2003 in Paris, Artists' Workshop in Vietnam, 2005 and Documenta: International Workshop for Art Academies in Germany during 2007. Hazel is also the Associate Artist with Substation where she held her first solo exhibition, Secret Windows in 2004.

Betty Susiarjo
Betty graduated from Winchester School of Art with Master of Arts (with Distinction), England. Her works mainly deal with elements of Time and Temporality and is interested in the manipulation of both physical and non-physical materials to convey this idea. Often inspired by the relationship of the mundane and the transcendental, she works mainly with installation, painting, drawing, writing and time-based media. Besides working on an installation piece Someday We Will Know, upcoming projects this year (2009) include Manifold at Substation, D-minor exhibition in Alliance Francaise de Singapore and working for the cover of Provoke! Magazine and Purple City project in Indonesia. Other recent group exhibitions include Lights Out! exhibition in Esplanade, Singapore (2008) and The Notthatballai Art Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007).

Jeremy Sharma Melvin
Graduated with BFA (Distinction), RMIT University in 2003 and Master of Art, Open University in 2006, Jeremy is a versatile artist who merges visual art and music. He has held four one-person exhibitions and participated many group exhibitions namely, Athlete (5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (premiering in Bangkok and USA), City_net (Seoul Museum of Art), Whose Playground is This? (Plastique kinetic Worms, Singapore), 8 Young Contemporaries (ArtForum, Singapore), Peninsular/Island (Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur), insomnia: KYTV presents: The P.O.P Station plus Tiramisu (ICA, London), Iconoclast/Persistence: Site of Memory (Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay, Singapore), and BigSmall Works (Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore). Jeremy has participated in Artist Residency and Exchange Program (REAP) by Artesan Gallery, Manila, royal Over-seas League (ROSL, UK) and Studio 106 (Former Ng Eng Teng Studio, Singapore) and is a recipient of JCCI Art Award, Finalist Phillip Morris Arts Award, First Prize Action for Aids Award and the Della Butcher Award (presented by The Rotary Club Singapore).

Lecturer, Fine Arts
Gilles Massot

• Master of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
• Diploma in Photography & Audiovisual, University of Marseille St Charles, France
• Certificate in Architecture, School of Architecture of Marseille Luminy, France

After studying architecture in Marseille (France) and eventually graduating in photography, Gilles came to live in Singapore in 1981. His early participation to the local art scene saw him involved in a string of seminal art events with the first editions of the Festival of Arts Fringe among many others. In 1985, he chose the path of travel photographer and writer and followed it for the next 15 years. His photojournalistic work has been extensively published in various magazines, and his approach to the art of travelling has resulted in over 50 fine art exhibitions in France and Asia. In 2000, he started teaching photography in LASALLE's Faculty of Fine Arts where he completed his Masters in 2006. In 2007, he was appointed artist for the Buona Vista Station, Circle Line, as part of the Land Transport Authority's Integrated Art Programme. The same year he also joined the LASALLE as a full-time staff and published his second book, Retro Specks Future Pixs: the Book, which summarises his 30 years of research on the theme of time, space and their relation to photography and painting. His first book Bintan, Phoenix of the Malay Archipelago was published in 2003 and remains to this day the only comprehensive publication on the Riau Archipelago. His artistic work is part of the collection of the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Singapore Art Museum.

Programme Leader (MA Asian Art Histories)
Jeffrey Say

Jeffrey Say graduated with a First Class Honours in History and an MA in Art History. A former curator of the National Museum, Jeffrey has been teaching at LASALLE College of the Arts since 1997, where he helped to develop its art history programme. In 2009, he designed and developed the first MA programme in the world for LASALLE that focuses on modern and contemporary Asian art history. He is presently programme leader of the MA Asian Art Histories programme. In his professional capacity, Jeffrey has curated and co-curated a number of visual arts exhibition. He has contributed essays to both local and overseas exhibition catalogues. Jeffrey has regularly given public lectures on art history in venues such as the Singapore Art Museum and the Asian civilisations Museum. Jeffrey's area of research is on the history of sculpture in pre and post-war Singapore, for which he has written several scholarly articles and for which an exhibition is being planned.

Adjunct Lecturer
Isabel Ching

Isabel Ching graduated with a Masters of Arts with Merit (Art History & Theory) from the University of Sydney, Australia in 2001. Prior to this, she had obtained her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the National University of Singapore in 1999 and was a practicing litigation lawyer from 2001 – early 2007. As the Assistant Director of the Osage group of galleries from 2007–8 based in the head office in Hong Kong, China. She was involved in planning, policy and management, and the programming of contemporary Asian art exhibitions. She is engaged in writing, research and curatorial projects on an independent basis since late 2008. Her research interests cover Asian modernities and modalities of transfers, the formation/erosion of individual/collective identities in relation to the rise of the modern state and contemporary art processes in Asia with artistic strategies in authoritarian states. Her current projects include contemporary art in The Philippines and Myanmar.

Adjunct Lecturer
Tay Swee Lin

Tay Swee Lin is a US trained artist/curator/educator who is now an independent art consultant. She headed and directed Sculpture Square Ltd from 2001 -2008. From 1995 till 2001 Tay worked as a curator at the Singapore Art Museum (National Heritage Board). During that stint, she was curator specialising in art from Indo China (Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia), Thailand, Australia, multi-media art, design and craft. At Sculpture Square, Tay was also the artistic director, involved in the overall programming and curating of all its exhibitions and events. In 2005, Tay was appointed by the National Arts Council to be the curator for Singapore's participation at the XI Indian Triennale as well as the organizer for four components of the Singapore Art Show. Tay is currently the art consultant for Mapletree Business City's public art programme and serves on 2 committees at the Singapore Art Museum.

Adjunct Lecturer
Seng Yu Jin

Seng Yu Jin is currently a curator at The National Art Gallery, Singapore (TNAGS). He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Masters in History and has worked as a curator at TNAGS since 2006. He has curated exhibitions such as "From Words to Pictures: Art During the Emergency" (2007), "Affandi: A Painter of Genius" (2007), and co-curated "Masriadi: Black is My Last Weapon" (2008), "FX Harsono: Testimonies" (2010) and most recently, co-curated "Cheong Soo Pieng: Bridging Worlds" (2010). His current research interests include artist collectives and the history of exhibitions in Southeast Asia, specialising in the history of art in Singapore and Indonesia.

Adjunct Lecturer
Joyce Fan

Joyce Fan is currently a curator in The National Art Gallery, Singapore (TNAGS). Joyce began her museum career in 1993 as a Museum Assistant. She assisted both the Director and Senior Curator in realising temporary exhibitions in the then National Museum Art Gallery (NMAG). Being groomed as a curator, she was tasked to develop the collection of 20th century Vietnamese and Myanmar art as the Museum expanded its focus to include Southeast Asian art. To further her museum career, she pursued further studies in New York. While studying for her Masters in History, Theory and Criticism of Art, Architecture and Design at Pratt Institute, America, Joyce was successful in securing a curatorial internship at the Museum of Modern Art in the department of Prints and Drawings. She was also given a Krauss internship at the Asian Art Department, Brooklyn Museum of Art. In both capacities she gained deeper insights into the workings of public institutions.

Entry Requirements

Academic Requirements

• Completed High School (Grade 12), Junior College or Pre-University education.
• Recognised Singapore qualification: Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level: Minimum 'Pass' in 2 subjects + General Paper or recognised equivalent.
• Recognised international qualifications: Please click here to view list.

Note:

• 'A' Level Art/Art Elective Programme or International Baccalaureate (IB) Art & Design are not required subjects but represent the portfolio standard for eligibility into the BA(Hons).
• Alternative English qualification: IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL iBT80.

Portfolios & Interview Requirements

• A portfolio containing a range of examples of appropriate artworks (about 10-15 works). Your portfolio could include a variety of 2D work (e.g. painting, drawing, prints, photography, digital imaging, etc), 3D work (e.g. ceramics, sculptures, installations, etc), and/or new media work (e.g. animation, video art, web art, etc). Clear documentation of artwork that is too large to bring or otherwise unavailable can be presented in the form of slides, photographs, video, or Mac-compatible CDs or DVDs (digital images not exceeding 800KB) with accompanying explanations of your artwork.
• Evidence of research and development of ideas via sketchbook or visual research journal that allows us to see and experience your mode of creative ideas, whether resolved or unrealised. This could be self-initiated as well as from past coursework project.
• A summary of reasons for choosing the Fine Arts programme (to be submitted on interview day).

Programme Information

Duration: 3 Years

Awards:
BA(Hons) Fine Arts

With Specialisms:
Art Photography, Drawing, Graphic Novel, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Time-Based Art

The study of Fine Arts is a process of continual debate and questioning; of exploring and interrogating set perspectives. Contemporary fine art practice constantly negotiates with its surroundings and histories, in a role that is subversive and ever-changing.

This programme situates itself at the crossroads of contemporary Western and Asian cultures, acknowledging the demands of different worldviews. It unites specialised areas, from traditional disciplines to newer art forms, providing wider options of expression relevant to the global evolution of fine arts.

You can undertake one of seven specialisms:

Painting studies begins with the study of pigment-based methods of representing reality to a broad range of media, ideas, and approaches; and in finding and developing a critical and professional context for your practical and theoretical explorations.

Printmaking explores the elements of trace beyond the boundaries of paper, combining techniques to contextualise ideas through an innovative approach towards traditional and digital media, and introduces all forms of autographic printmaking, including among others, lithography, relief, and screen printing. Sculpture aims at students who are interested in expanding and evolving the nature of contemporary sculpture within fine art practice. It also seeks to explore and examine the continued role and significance of traditional mediums and processes alongside emerging and non-traditional genres within contemporary sculpture.

Art Photography covers photography and lens-based media arts in the traditional context of fine arts. You will be encouraged to explore the boundaries of the medium and engage with current photographic discourse.

Drawing offers an opportunity to explore drawing in its own right and tests its currency as a mode of expression within a diverse contemporary context. Graphic Novel explores the relationships between the concepts 'graphic novel' or 'comic book' and 'popular culture' which you derive from your experiences, readings, and discussions.

Time-based Art supports experimental works in digital technologies that utilise time as a key element, involving performance, animation, kinetics, and electronic interactive installations, sound, and telecommunication. This specialism develops the critical awareness through a close study of histories, moving image, and the use of technology and the human body.

Level 1 presents the different disciplines and theoretical approaches needed for an exploration of Fine Arts, introducing you to social and historical frameworks that will inform your practice. Level 2 hones an understanding of new techniques, inspiring you to apply intellectual, visual, and practical skills towards your proposed research projects. Level 3 consolidates the previous levels and culminates in a thesis for a degree exhibition.

Teaching Methods: You will have the opportunity to work in the studio and attend workshop electives in specialised workshop spaces. You will attend lectures, seminars and critique presentations. There will be regular guest lecturers by international artists, curators and scholars who will bring valuable experience and knowledge. You will participate in class presentations, complete written assignments and put together a research portfolio. You will be assessed every semester for all modules.

Assessments: Assessment is an integral part of the learning process, and will be formative and diagnostic as well as summative and evaluative, providing feedback to students wherever appropriate. Read more about assessments here.

Modules

(Specialism: Art Photography, Drawing, Graphic Novel, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Time-based Art)

Level 1

Practical Studio
This module introduces you to the specialisms available within the Fine Arts discipline through studio-based projects. Approaches to a common theme will be explored using practices and facilities particular to the chosen specialism.

Studio Electives
Studio Electives are designed as an introduction and supplement to the studio practical specialism. This module serves as a rigorous and unique examination of personal assumptions regarding the processes and materials traditionally associated with art making.

Contextual Studies
The Contextual Studies module comprises two components: Art History and Theory of Art. This interrelation facilitates a critique of existing art historical practice, and introduces you to fundamental theoretical concepts and philosophical ideas that underpin historical art movements and artworks.

Level 2

Practical Studio
The core drawing skills that are discipline-related are further developed and honed, enabling you to respond to the increasing demands of the programme. You will experience an involvement in research methods, both in relation to their practice and in the field of contemporary art.

Studio Electives
The module progressively introduces you to the components of Studio Electives in relation to your studio practice. The workshop component comprises technical workshops to broaden your experience in a range of Fine Arts interdisciplinary electives.

Contextual Studies & Professional Practice
This module examines a number of key themes and debates associated with 20th Century art and cultural politics. You will be exposed to key issues in contemporary art, in the Western as well as Asian contexts.

Level 3

Practical Studio
You are expected to consolidate your work independently and apply relevant skills to a self-directed body of artwork. The further development of research methods, in both practice and the field of contemporary art, enable you to consolidate and resolve a final body of work.

Studio Electives
Studio Electives looks into the expansive nature of interdisciplinary areas by introducing a broad range of conceptual, thematic and technological-based mediums that will complement your research topic. It will further emphasise the investigative experiences and challenges you to incorporate the previously learnt methods into your research.

Contextual Studies and Professional Practice
This module exposes you to the components of Contextual Studies in relation to your studio practice. Research projects and seminars enable you to independently examine the relationship between theoretical concepts and studio practice. It further highlights the essential points in being a practising artist within the constantly changing art climate.

Faculty Members

Postgraduate Studies

Dr Ian Woo
Programme leader / Senior Lecturer Ian Woo has exhibited both internally and locally, with acquisitions of his works by major institutions like UBS, Singapore Management University, Victorian Tapestry Workshop, United Overseas Bank, Tomio Koyoma Gallery in Japan, ABN AMRO and Mint Museum of Craft & Design. His involvement in research was on the language of abstract painting to possess the ability to express notions of a continuous presence. His ideas of momentary paintings are influenced by speech and contemporary music compositions. He has held 5 individual exhibitions and he is seen as influential artist with works/from his output of paintings that pushes the envelope of painting as a reflexive language of shifting representations between memory and time. His interdisciplinary practice includes his fascination with making improvisational music, where he is seen as a participator, playing the bass guitar with several improvised noise rock outfits, namely I\D and Path Integral.

Adeline Kueh
Currently a Senior Lecturer with the Faculty of Fine Arts, her previous stints include being the Director of the Intermedia Lab with the Office of Research & Creative Industries, as well as Director of Studies, Art Theory & Art History in the college. She had also established the MA Art History programme, the first online programme (with a Southeast Asian angle) for Lasalle. Rooted in cultural studies, her research interests include notions of monstrosity within Southeast Asian contexts, smart fashion, architecture and the future of cinema. She has chaired and presented at a number of cultural studies conferences in UK, Australia, Finland and Hungary. Adeline has also produced installations and interventionist projects within the collaborative MatriXial Technologies in Germany, the Netherlands and USA. Presently, she is also a consultant for a number of research, lifestyle and design projects, including being a consultant lecturer for the MA Art Business programme with Sotheby's Institute of Art, Singapore.

Undergraduate Studies

Salleh Japar
Salleh is the Programme Leader, Undergraduate Studies / Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts. Winner of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Visual Art Award (1996) & Singapore Youth Award (Art and Culture) from the National Youth Council, Salleh represented Singapore in 2001, 49th Venice Biennale. Salleh Japar trained at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts. He went on to obtain his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia in 1990. A lecturer at his Singaporean alma mater between 1990 and 1995, Salleh Japar was appointed member on Course Validation as well as to the Overseas Student Council following his Pg Dip in Art Education at the University of Central England, United Kingdom, in 1996. Salleh has also been a volunteer art tutor at the Handicap Welfare Association and an Assistant Curator of Art at the National Museum in Singapore. Recipient of many grants and scholarships for his art and discipline, Salleh has participated and exhibited in more than 60 programmes and exhibitions in Singapore and internationally.

Hazel Lim
Hazel is a visual artist who completed her postgraduate degree in Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts in 2008 and has a Bachelor degree in Sociology and Statistics. Trained in painting, she frequently employs installation, photography and objects to express her concerns about notions of displacement, construction of histories and imaginary landscapes. Her latest research, however led her to create works that question representation itself, articulated through works that include objects, text, paper folding, interactive workshops and presentations. Besides being an artist and teacher, she has experiences in other aspects of art such as gallery management and contributing to artistic publications. She had taken part in group exhibitions showcased in Singapore, Ireland and Vietnam and participated extensively in international artists exchange programs such as the ASEF Creative Camp 2003 in Paris, Artists' Workshop in Vietnam, 2005 and Documenta: International Workshop for Art Academies in Germany during 2007. Hazel is also the Associate Artist with Substation where she held her first solo exhibition, Secret Windows in 2004.

Betty Susiarjo
Betty graduated from Winchester School of Art with Master of Arts (with Distinction), England. Her works mainly deal with elements of Time and Temporality and is interested in the manipulation of both physical and non-physical materials to convey this idea. Often inspired by the relationship of the mundane and the transcendental, she works mainly with installation, painting, drawing, writing and time-based media. Besides working on an installation piece Someday We Will Know, upcoming projects this year (2009) include Manifold at Substation, D-minor exhibition in Alliance Francaise de Singapore and working for the cover of Provoke! Magazine and Purple City project in Indonesia. Other recent group exhibitions include Lights Out! exhibition in Esplanade, Singapore (2008) and The Notthatballai Art Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007).

Jeremy Sharma Melvin
Graduated with BFA (Distinction), RMIT University in 2003 and Master of Art, Open University in 2006, Jeremy is a versatile artist who merges visual art and music. He has held four one-person exhibitions and participated many group exhibitions namely, Athlete (5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (premiering in Bangkok and USA), City_net (Seoul Museum of Art), Whose Playground is This? (Plastique kinetic Worms, Singapore), 8 Young Contemporaries (ArtForum, Singapore), Peninsular/Island (Taksu Gallery, Kuala Lumpur), insomnia: KYTV presents: The P.O.P Station plus Tiramisu (ICA, London), Iconoclast/Persistence: Site of Memory (Esplanade-Theatres on the Bay, Singapore), and BigSmall Works (Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore). Jeremy has participated in Artist Residency and Exchange Program (REAP) by Artesan Gallery, Manila, royal Over-seas League (ROSL, UK) and Studio 106 (Former Ng Eng Teng Studio, Singapore) and is a recipient of JCCI Art Award, Finalist Phillip Morris Arts Award, First Prize Action for Aids Award and the Della Butcher Award (presented by The Rotary Club Singapore).

Lecturer, Fine Arts
Gilles Massot

• Master of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
• Diploma in Photography & Audiovisual, University of Marseille St Charles, France
• Certificate in Architecture, School of Architecture of Marseille Luminy, France

After studying architecture in Marseille (France) and eventually graduating in photography, Gilles came to live in Singapore in 1981. His early participation to the local art scene saw him involved in a string of seminal art events with the first editions of the Festival of Arts Fringe among many others. In 1985, he chose the path of travel photographer and writer and followed it for the next 15 years. His photojournalistic work has been extensively published in various magazines, and his approach to the art of travelling has resulted in over 50 fine art exhibitions in France and Asia. In 2000, he started teaching photography in LASALLE's Faculty of Fine Arts where he completed his Masters in 2006. In 2007, he was appointed artist for the Buona Vista Station, Circle Line, as part of the Land Transport Authority's Integrated Art Programme. The same year he also joined the LASALLE as a full-time staff and published his second book, Retro Specks Future Pixs: the Book, which summarises his 30 years of research on the theme of time, space and their relation to photography and painting. His first book Bintan, Phoenix of the Malay Archipelago was published in 2003 and remains to this day the only comprehensive publication on the Riau Archipelago. His artistic work is part of the collection of the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Singapore Art Museum.

Programme Leader (MA Asian Art Histories)
Jeffrey Say

Jeffrey Say graduated with a First Class Honours in History and an MA in Art History. A former curator of the National Museum, Jeffrey has been teaching at LASALLE College of the Arts since 1997, where he helped to develop its art history programme. In 2009, he designed and developed the first MA programme in the world for LASALLE that focuses on modern and contemporary Asian art history. He is presently programme leader of the MA Asian Art Histories programme. In his professional capacity, Jeffrey has curated and co-curated a number of visual arts exhibition. He has contributed essays to both local and overseas exhibition catalogues. Jeffrey has regularly given public lectures on art history in venues such as the Singapore Art Museum and the Asian civilisations Museum. Jeffrey's area of research is on the history of sculpture in pre and post-war Singapore, for which he has written several scholarly articles and for which an exhibition is being planned.

Adjunct Lecturer
Isabel Ching

Isabel Ching graduated with a Masters of Arts with Merit (Art History & Theory) from the University of Sydney, Australia in 2001. Prior to this, she had obtained her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) from the National University of Singapore in 1999 and was a practicing litigation lawyer from 2001 – early 2007. As the Assistant Director of the Osage group of galleries from 2007–8 based in the head office in Hong Kong, China. She was involved in planning, policy and management, and the programming of contemporary Asian art exhibitions. She is engaged in writing, research and curatorial projects on an independent basis since late 2008. Her research interests cover Asian modernities and modalities of transfers, the formation/erosion of individual/collective identities in relation to the rise of the modern state and contemporary art processes in Asia with artistic strategies in authoritarian states. Her current projects include contemporary art in The Philippines and Myanmar.

Adjunct Lecturer
Tay Swee Lin

Tay Swee Lin is a US trained artist/curator/educator who is now an independent art consultant. She headed and directed Sculpture Square Ltd from 2001 -2008. From 1995 till 2001 Tay worked as a curator at the Singapore Art Museum (National Heritage Board). During that stint, she was curator specialising in art from Indo China (Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia), Thailand, Australia, multi-media art, design and craft. At Sculpture Square, Tay was also the artistic director, involved in the overall programming and curating of all its exhibitions and events. In 2005, Tay was appointed by the National Arts Council to be the curator for Singapore's participation at the XI Indian Triennale as well as the organizer for four components of the Singapore Art Show. Tay is currently the art consultant for Mapletree Business City's public art programme and serves on 2 committees at the Singapore Art Museum.

Adjunct Lecturer
Seng Yu Jin

Seng Yu Jin is currently a curator at The National Art Gallery, Singapore (TNAGS). He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Masters in History and has worked as a curator at TNAGS since 2006. He has curated exhibitions such as "From Words to Pictures: Art During the Emergency" (2007), "Affandi: A Painter of Genius" (2007), and co-curated "Masriadi: Black is My Last Weapon" (2008), "FX Harsono: Testimonies" (2010) and most recently, co-curated "Cheong Soo Pieng: Bridging Worlds" (2010). His current research interests include artist collectives and the history of exhibitions in Southeast Asia, specialising in the history of art in Singapore and Indonesia.

Adjunct Lecturer
Joyce Fan

Joyce Fan is currently a curator in The National Art Gallery, Singapore (TNAGS). Joyce began her museum career in 1993 as a Museum Assistant. She assisted both the Director and Senior Curator in realising temporary exhibitions in the then National Museum Art Gallery (NMAG). Being groomed as a curator, she was tasked to develop the collection of 20th century Vietnamese and Myanmar art as the Museum expanded its focus to include Southeast Asian art. To further her museum career, she pursued further studies in New York. While studying for her Masters in History, Theory and Criticism of Art, Architecture and Design at Pratt Institute, America, Joyce was successful in securing a curatorial internship at the Museum of Modern Art in the department of Prints and Drawings. She was also given a Krauss internship at the Asian Art Department, Brooklyn Museum of Art. In both capacities she gained deeper insights into the workings of public institutions.

Entry Requirements

Academic Requirements

• Completed High School (Grade 12), Junior College or Pre-University education.
• Recognised Singapore qualification: Singapore-Cambridge GCE 'A' Level: Minimum 'Pass' in 2 subjects + General Paper or recognised equivalent.
• Recognised international qualifications: Please click here to view list.

Note:

• 'A' Level Art/Art Elective Programme or International Baccalaureate (IB) Art & Design are not required subjects but represent the portfolio standard for eligibility into the BA(Hons).
• Alternative English qualification: IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL iBT80.

Portfolios & Interview Requirements

• A portfolio containing a range of examples of appropriate artworks (about 10-15 works). Your portfolio could include a variety of 2D work (e.g. painting, drawing, prints, photography, digital imaging, etc), 3D work (e.g. ceramics, sculptures, installations, etc), and/or new media work (e.g. animation, video art, web art, etc). Clear documentation of artwork that is too large to bring or otherwise unavailable can be presented in the form of slides, photographs, video, or Mac-compatible CDs or DVDs (digital images not exceeding 800KB) with accompanying explanations of your artwork.
• Evidence of research and development of ideas via sketchbook or visual research journal that allows us to see and experience your mode of creative ideas, whether resolved or unrealised. This could be self-initiated as well as from past coursework project.
• A summary of reasons for choosing the Fine Arts programme (to be submitted on interview day).