Arts@MacPherson 2020
Artists Feature
Participate in Design (P!D) is working with 4 Artists for Arts@MacPherson 2020 to create a series of art interventions that aims to create delight in everyday experiences through pops of unexpected art around the neighbourhood of MacPherson.
By bringing in these 4 artists to work alongside the community to build art interventions in the public spaces of MacPherson, we hope to enhance the hidden gems of the neighbourhood for the residents.
Ernest Goh
Ernest Goh
Ernest Goh is a visual artist whose work focuses on ecological relationships. He founded Ayer Ayer, an ecologically-engaged art project that reaches out to communities through visual, experiential and participatory artworks in art and science. In 2019, Ernest looked at the complications of ocean plastic pollution faced by Punggol Beach in Singapore.
The artist also created The Animal Book Co., a collection of photography-based projects that explores natural history and wildlife. Ernest’s animal portraits have been published in The Fish Book (2011), Cocks (2013, republished as Chickens in the US in 2015), and The Gift Book (2014). He presented an exhibition, Breakfast at 8 Jungle at 9 (Objectifs – Centre for photography and Film, Singapore, 2015), exploring the famed British explorer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace’s time in Singapore and the Asian region in the 1850s.
Ernest's work has been commissioned by and installed at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore, collected by the Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, and also resides in corporate, public and private collections.
Find out more about ERNEST GOH @ ernestgoh.com or instagram.com/theanimalbookco
Matthew Sia
Matthew Sia
Matthew Sia is a Singapore-based installation artist and interactive designer whose work combines conceptual themes with technological experimentation. Graduated from London College of Communication with a Bachelors’ in Interaction and Moving Image, his installation works has been showcased in London, Hong Kong, as well as at various museums and events in Singapore.
Online, he lives at matthewsia.com, where a more extensive list of his projects may be found.
Find out more about MATTHEW SIA @ matthewsia.com or instagram.com/siayk
Lee Xin Li
Lee Xin Li
Lee Xin Li is an independent illustrator based in Singapore. The architectural graduate from the National University of Singapore enjoy exploring the stories and layers behind the landscapes he encounters. He is deeply inspired by his experience of growing up in a constantly changing Singapore.
His works revolves around the topics of shared memories and the question of identity in a shifting world, exploring various aspects of what shaped our landscapes such as cuisines, architecture and history.
Find out more about LEE XIN LI @ behance.net/PokPokandAway or instagram.com/xinli29288
Leow Wei Li
Leow Wei Li
Leow Wei Li is an independent visual artist and designer based in Singapore.
Her works are driven by her interest in materials and the love of colour, shapes and form. She practices painting as a way of finding poetry in her everyday life and further her exploration of the visual language through design.
Wei Li graduated with a BA(First Class Hons) in Fine Arts from LASALLE COLLEGE of the Arts in 2016. Since then she has participated in several group exhibitions, received a tcc-LASALLE Artist-Curator Alumni Award and won the Young Talent Programme Winners' Solo Exhibition 2016/17 at ION Art. She has also painted murals for several cafes in Singapore and the ARTWALK Little India Festival in year 2017.
Find out more about LEOW WEI LI @ leowweili.com or instagram.com/wlilwl