YEO WORKSHOP Gillman Barracks SG +65 67345168 [email protected] www.yeoworkshop.com 1 Lock Road, S (108932) Biographies Randy Chan Randy Chan is an award-winning architect and artist. Chan’s architectural and design experience crosses multiple fields and scales, all guided by the simple philosophy that architecture and aesthetics are part of the same impulse. Chan is the principal of Zarch Collaboratives - one of Singapore’s leading architectural studios established in 1999. The objective of the studio is to practice and fulfil architectural projects but also cross disciplines and approach the means of spatial design. They have worked on a series of exhibition spaces, stage set designs, art installations, world expositions and catered for private and public housing plans. Additionally, Chan is the creative director of Singapore: Inside Out, an international platform featuring a collection of multi-disciplinary experiences created by practicing artists. It is a platform with a global intention. It accommodates and presents the creative talents of Beijing, London, New York and Singapore. Artistically it combines the varying disciplines of architecture, design, fashion, film, food, music, performance and the visual arts. Hubertus von Amelunxen Professor Dr. Hubertus von Amelunxen was born in Hindelang, Germany in 1958. He lives in Berlin and Switzerland. After studies in French and German Literature and in Art History at the Philipps- Universität, Marburg and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, he wrote his Ph.D. on Allegory and Photography: Inquiries into 19th Century French Literature. He was professor of Cultural Studies and the Founding Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the Muthesius Academy of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts in Kiel between 1995 and 2000. He was visiting professor in Art History at the Universität Basel, in Art History and the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California in Santa Cruz, in the Literature Department of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp and Gent. Hubertus von Amelunxen was from 2001–2007 Senior Visiting Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal, is Member of the Faculty of the European Graduate School (New York/Saas Fee), where he was appointed to the Walter Benjamin Chair in YEO WORKSHOP Gillman Barracks SG +65 67345168 [email protected] 1 Lock Road, S (108932) www.yeoworkshop.com 2006. He was appointed from 2001 to 2005 the Founding Director of the ISNM International School of New Media at the University of Lübeck, Germany, and the chair of Cultural studies. In 2003 he was elected as Member to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. In May 2005 he was appointed the General Director of the European School of Visual Arts in Angoulême and Poitiers, France. From October 2010 till October 2013 he was the President of the University of Art in Braunschweig Germany, currently he is the President of The European Graduate School (EGS) in Switzerland. Beside numerous articles on literature, art and photography, he was co-editor (with Timm Starl) of the Fotogeschichte–Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie from 1989 to 1994. He has written and edited books on media theory and post-structuralism, and curated several international exhibitions and catalogues, among them the first large European exhibition on William Henry Fox Talbot, which toured from the New National Gallery in Berlin to Vienna, Lausanne, Antwerp and Paris in 1989/1990, Die aufgehobene Zeit–Die Erfindung der Photographie durch William Henry Fox Talbot (Berlin, 1988), Jacques Derrida, Die Tode von Roland Barthes (Berlin: Nishen, 1987), (with Andrei Ujica) Television/Revolution. The Ultimatum of the Image. Rumania in December 1989, (Marburg: Jonas Verlag, 1991), Allegorie und Photographie (Mannheim: Universität Mannheim, 1992), Photography after Photography, an exhibition which travelled in Europe and North America (G+B Arts, Munich, 1995), Les Lieux du Non-Lieu (Berlin: Verlag der Kunst, 1997), Territoire en deuil (Arles: Actes Sud, 1998) and Tomorrow For Ever– Photography as a Ruin (Cologne: Dumont, 1999), Theorie der Fotografie, 1980-1995 (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2000), Zaha Hadid with Hélène Binet (Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 2000), Photo and Concept Art For a Building (Heidelberg/Berlin 2000), Jean Philippe Reverdot, Bilan provisoire (Marval, Paris 2002), Tangent|e–Alain Paiement, (Lars Müller Publishers, Canadian Centre for Architecture 2003), Tangent|e–Dieter Appelt, (Lars Müller Publishers, Canadian Centre for Architecture 2004), Tangent|e–Victor Burgin, Voyage to Italy, (Hatje Cantz, 2006), Tangent|e–Naoya Hatakeyama, Scale (Nazraeli Press, 2007) and together with Dieter Appelt and Peter Weibel, Notation–Calculus and Form in the Arts, (Berlin, Akademie der Künste 2008, ZKM, 2009), and he edited together with Angela Lammert and Philip Ursprung, Gordon Matta-Clark Moment to Moment: Space, (Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012). His latest book is a monograph on the Palestinian artist Steve Sabella, Photography 1997-2014 (Hatje Cantz, 2014). He curated recently the exhibitions Iannis Xenakis at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (together with Angela Lammert) in 2011 and Cy Twombly Photographs 1951-2010 at BOZAR in Brussels in 2012. YEO WORKSHOP Gillman Barracks SG +65 67345168 [email protected] 1 Lock Road, S (108932) www.yeoworkshop.com Ian Woo Ian Woo is a Singaporean artist (b. 1967) whose practice may be defined by abstraction. Clearly depicting the gestural intimacy he has with his work, his influences derive from modernist forms, perceptual abstractions and sound sculptures of musical improvisation. Depicting a sense of representational change and employing gravitational means, his term ‘picture making’ best describes his approach. Regarding his practice as a form of disciplinary maintenance and evolvement of painting as a vehicle for pictorial reflectivity, the work seems to be within a constant state of progression. Woo began his studies at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore) in 1991 and received a Masters in European Fine Art at the Winchester School of Art (UK) in 1995. He further continued his academic studies to complete a DFA at RMIT University (Australia) in 2006, with a doctorate research thesis based on the ability of abstract painting to express notions of a continuous presence. His efforts and achievements have been rewarded by an array of supporting bodies, enabling him to be the recipient of the UOB Painting of the Year award in the category of Abstract Art in 1999. Additionally, he was the Juror’s Choice for two consecutive years in South East Asia’s Philip Morris Award in 1999 and 2000. Woo’s work has also been displayed in numerous international solo shows such as “The Difference Between Your Mountain and My Couch” at 8/ Tomio Koyama Gallery, Japan (2014), “Ian Woo: A Review 1995 – 2011” at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2011) and “Mental Images” at the LASALLE Gallery in Singapore in 2000. Group exhibitions include “Forever II” at Galerie DNA, Germany, “ A Drawing Show” at Yeo Workshop, Singapore (2014), “Market Forces – Erasure: From Conceptualism To Abstraction” at Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (2014), “Island Vernacular” at Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University, UK (2013) and “Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia” at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2012). His work may be found in major international institutions such as ABN AMRO, Singapore Art Museum, The Istana Singapore, The National Art Gallery Singapore, UBS, and the Mint Museum of Craft & Design, USA and have also been featured in the publication “Art of the New Cities: 21st Century Avant-Gardes,” by Phaidon in 2013. Loke Hong Seng Loke Hong Seng is a fine art photographer shooting street portraits of Singapore during the period 1963 to 1985. These 22 years parallel a period of tremendous change in YEO WORKSHOP Gillman Barracks SG +65 67345168 [email protected] 1 Lock Road, S (108932) www.yeoworkshop.com Singapore – from the fight for Independence through modernization of the country – during which he captured the emergence of a new republic against the backdrop of vernacular architecture and colonial buildings. While taking pictorial salon photos, he made a conscious decision to shoot more realistic images of daily life for a more creative presentation. Though his photographs adhere to classical modes of composition, his style has a contemporaneous aspect of depicting modern life. Loke Hong Seng was born in Singapore in 1943. He is part of the pioneer generation in Singapore, graduating from Chung Cheng High School in 1960, and joining the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation as an announcer and a producer in 1965. Around this time, he began taking amateur photographs with his older brother’s Topcon camera. His passion for the craft steadily grew, and soon he acquired and used cameras such as Topcon, an Afga folded 6X9 and a Rolleicord 6X6. In 1968 he joined the Photographic Society of Singapore (PSS). Following the influence of his peers, he began shooting with a Leicaflex 35mm camera. Loke’s recent exhibitions include group presentations at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts entitled Vernacula_As Seen Through Art, Film & Photography, 2015, a public display titled Pioneers: Modern Singapore at Raffles Place Park (2015), and A Social Portrait of Singapore: The Critical Years at the UOB Art Gallery (2015). Loke held his first solo exhibition at the Yeo Workshop in 2015, A Social Portrait of Singapore: The Critical Years. Merryn Trevethan Merryn Trevethan’s practice focuses on the uncertainty of perception in densely populated urban environments, which is flooded with visual information and complexity of vision. Her drawings, paintings and installations draw attention to the inconsistencies in our perception of the world and create situations that allow us to experience, engage and see in the moment. Her imagery comes from skyscrapers, cityscapes and geometric grids of streets and buildings. Scattered Thunderstorms and Mostly Cloudy were inspired by tropical city life in Singapore.