The Straits Clan has just launched an art residency programme
The Creative Studio features four cool emerging Singaporean artists
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Private members club The Straits Clan has partnered up with The Artling to launch a residency programme for its Creative Studio programme, featuring four Singaporean artists: Tiffany Loy, Masuri Mazlan, Dawn Ang (a.k.a Aeropalmics) and Andre Wee. The inaugural Creative Studio will form part of the Straits Clan Arts Programme, which aims to provide a unique platform for local artists and designers to come together and hone their craft over a four-month period. The artists will work from a studio space at The Straits Clan – and the new works will be exhibited at the club at the end of the residency period.
R for Repair exhibition features toothy seashell and storytelling clock radio
Ten designers have created new pieces from broken objects, including a clock radio that tells stories and a seashell that has been given an eerily realistic tongue and teeth, for the R for Repair exhibition in Singapore.
Curator Hans Tan chose a selection of designers for the project, which was commissioned by the DesignSingapore Council and aims to show how repairing discarded items can help us change how we think about waste. Being a designer-maker in Singapore where natural resources are scarce and craft fabrication practices hard to come by, the use of waste and found objects has been a common thread in my own works, said Tan, who teaches sustainability and design at the National University of Singapore.