Over 600 works by final year students from the Diploma, BA (Hons) and postgraduate programmes at LASALLE College of the Arts will be unveiled at The LASALLE Show Exhibition 2025.
The exhibition will open in galleries throughout the College’s McNally Campus from 22 May to 4 June 2025. A digital showcase will also launch on tls.lasalle.edu.sg on 22 May.
The LASALLE Show Exhibition marks the culmination of LASALLE’s annual graduation showcase, which kicked off in April with events including dance, music and theatre performances, a fashion show and a film screening. This year’s showcase also saw the commemoration of 20 years of musical theatre education in Singapore.
Spanning design, fine arts, film, animation, dance, music, theatre, creative writing and art therapy, the exhibition will showcase the best and brightest works in contemporary arts, design and performance. Visitors can look forward to discovering thought-provoking artwork, innovative projects with social and cultural impact, and insights from rigorous practice-led research.
“The LASALLE Show is the grand finale of our graduating students' journeys, and a testament to the remarkable imagination, creativity, and tenacious spirit that defines a LASALLE education. Our graduands have created works that are original and inspiring, and that speak to the issues of our time—the multifaceted complexities of today’s world, how we support each other as a society and how we might use technology to improve lives. I am greatly impressed by this year’s showcase and I am sure that visitors will be fascinated and inspired by the outstanding student works,” said Professor Steve Dixon, President, LASALLE College of the Arts.
Highlights from The LASALLE Show Exhibition 2025 include:
Society and community
- Your name on a grain of rice, produced by BA (Hons) Film student Huey Seah, aims to encourage discussion about talent and opportunities. The film follows Mei Qi, a talented 12-year-old girl from a lower-income background who attends a prestigious all-girls secondary school, where she feels self-conscious as she struggles to relate with her classmates.
- In his project RE-CLASSify, BA (Hons) Interior Design student Roy Lee Soo Kai has proposed repurposing unused or underutilised educational facilities as temporary housing solutions for low-income families. This initiative seeks to address the pressing need for affordable housing while maximising existing resources.
- BA (Hons) Design Communication student Peh Huijie Krystle’s project Living with wild neighbours examines the role of urban design in wildlife conservation, with a focus on the common palm civet in Singapore’s high-density environments.
Interdisciplinary
- INNERSPACE by BA (Hons) Fashion Design and Textiles student Eng Hwee San is an experimental study, exploring the potential use of wearable garments to manage stress or anxiety. Featuring a detachable hood and fitted with therapeutic LED light functions, the technologically enhanced garment creates an inner space for the wearer, relieving them from any surrounding hustle.
- Diploma in Broadcast Media student Dex Fernandez Gastador has created the first live cinema performance presented by the programme. Echoes of our past is a multidisciplinary performance that blends live and pre-recorded elements to explore the intersection of personal identity, cultural heritage and the pressures of modern life. Through contemporary and traditional dance, the piece takes the audience on a journey between the past and present, highlighting the tension between pre-colonial indigenous traditions and the fast-paced demands of the modern world.
Culture and heritage
- Pelaris! by Diploma in Fine Arts student Ayra Nasha Binte Muhammad Arifin explores the use of rituals and cultural practices in food within the local Muslim community, presented through an interactive card game. Her art is shaped by her own experiences in her family’s food business.
- ma, please tell me it's enough, lie me down and let me rest by BA (Hons) Fine Arts student Thirishaa Selvaraj reinterprets the concept of labour through the sacred art of kolam drawing, a Tamil Hindu tradition that blends devotion with daily ritual. By drawing parallels between the embodied gestures of kolam and the physical toll of labour, the work explores how domestic rituals—historically passed down through generations of women—both sustain and consume the body.
