Amanda Heng

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ARTS AWARDS 2010

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CULTURAL MEDALLION

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exhibitions, public art events and forums.

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Some of her curatorial projects include Women about Women, a multimedia event by local and international women

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artists in collaboration with Singapore International Film Festival and Singapore Art Museum, and Open Ends, an exhibition on performance art in Singapore held at The Substation.

VISUAL ARTS

Amanda Heng

Amanda has also crossed over into theatre, where she co-directed Bernard's

� At its core, Amanda Heng's art practice deals

with

the clash

between

Eastern

and Western values - conflicting moral standards, traditions and gender roles - in the context of fast-changing

...

multicultural Singapore. More recently, she has focused on issues such as history, memory, communication and human relationships in urban environments. Her interdisciplinary approach to art-making has led to collaborations with people of different cultural backgrounds, including those from non-arts fields.

Amanda's

entry

into

the

art

scene

happened relatively late in life. The former tax officer enrolled in a printmaking course at LASALLE College of the Arts in 1986, before becoming one of the founding members of the Artists Village in 1987.

In 1990, she went on to study in London at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where she conducted research on the feminist art movement. In 1993, she graduated from Curtin University of Technology with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) majoring in Sculpture. She co-founded her second artist group, WITA (Women in the Arts), in 1999.

Over the last 30 years of her career, Amanda has been actively conceptualising, curating, organising and participating in

Story (TheatreWorks) and performed in A Woman in a Tree on the Hill (Wild Rice).

She has exhibited extensively in Singapore and abroad, with recent shows including

Classic Contemporary (8Q, Singapore Art Museum), MM I Love You (Objectifs, Singapore) and Survey from Singapore (Toronto Free Gallery, Canada).

Amanda has been invited to residency programmes which include the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (japan), Australian National University, Artists Unlimited (Germany) and

the

Portland

Sculpture

Trust

(England). Her performances, collaborative interventions and installations have been featured in major galleries and festivals around the world - such as the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Australia), the Tachikawa International Art Festival (japan), the Werkleitz Biennale (Germany) and the inaugural Singapore Biennale.

A former lecturer at Nanyang Technological University and the National Institute of Education, Amanda sat on the selection and curatorial committee of the President's Young Talents Exhibition in 2009. She currently supervises Master of Arts students at LASALLE College of the Arts.

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ARTS AWARDS 2010

J..

....

►

◄

CULTURAL MEDALLION

► J,.

... �

exhibitions, public art events and forums.

�

Some of her curatorial projects include Women about Women, a multimedia event by local and international women

,,

artists in collaboration with Singapore International Film Festival and Singapore Art Museum, and Open Ends, an exhibition on performance art in Singapore held at The Substation.

VISUAL ARTS

Amanda Heng

Amanda has also crossed over into theatre, where she co-directed Bernard's

� At its core, Amanda Heng's art practice deals

with

the clash

between

Eastern

and Western values - conflicting moral standards, traditions and gender roles - in the context of fast-changing

...

multicultural Singapore. More recently, she has focused on issues such as history, memory, communication and human relationships in urban environments. Her interdisciplinary approach to art-making has led to collaborations with people of different cultural backgrounds, including those from non-arts fields.

Amanda's

entry

into

the

art

scene

happened relatively late in life. The former tax officer enrolled in a printmaking course at LASALLE College of the Arts in 1986, before becoming one of the founding members of the Artists Village in 1987.

In 1990, she went on to study in London at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, where she conducted research on the feminist art movement. In 1993, she graduated from Curtin University of Technology with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) majoring in Sculpture. She co-founded her second artist group, WITA (Women in the Arts), in 1999.

Over the last 30 years of her career, Amanda has been actively conceptualising, curating, organising and participating in

Story (TheatreWorks) and performed in A Woman in a Tree on the Hill (Wild Rice).

She has exhibited extensively in Singapore and abroad, with recent shows including

Classic Contemporary (8Q, Singapore Art Museum), MM I Love You (Objectifs, Singapore) and Survey from Singapore (Toronto Free Gallery, Canada).

Amanda has been invited to residency programmes which include the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (japan), Australian National University, Artists Unlimited (Germany) and

the

Portland

Sculpture

Trust

(England). Her performances, collaborative interventions and installations have been featured in major galleries and festivals around the world - such as the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (Australia), the Tachikawa International Art Festival (japan), the Werkleitz Biennale (Germany) and the inaugural Singapore Biennale.

A former lecturer at Nanyang Technological University and the National Institute of Education, Amanda sat on the selection and curatorial committee of the President's Young Talents Exhibition in 2009. She currently supervises Master of Arts students at LASALLE College of the Arts.

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