Wei Liat Tan graduated with a Master of Architecture degree from RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the winner of the 2009 Antonia Bruns Memorial Prize for his thesis project entitled: Memory of the World and was featured in MONUMENT Magazine [Issue 93]. In 2010, his thesis project was short-listed for the 2010 Australian Institute of Architects BVN Graduate Prize in Architecture. “My future architectural goal is to hone my skills into designing buildings that can move people and learn to be more sensitive to the intangible side of architecture.”

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Inch Chua has a brand-new full-length in the can– it’s titled Wallflower, and it will be released today as a free download on her official site.

While Inch’s first solo outing The Bedroom combines her love of both acoustic singer-songwriters and kooky electronics, the latest offering continues her fascination with 8-bit electronic, folk flourishes and ukulele pop. With this release, Inch revisits her rock roots by infusing swing and jazz into the music as well.

Wallflower is almost like a diary of a young girl entering adulthood. Each song works like a journal entry for Inch as she puts her thoughts and feelings to music.

Here is one of the tracks. Give it a listen!

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In an effort to woo the hearts of  lovers past and present, The Substation has launched Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? The Substation Love Letters Project.

Curated and edited by acclaimed local poet Cyril Wong, this project invites a familiar cast of local writers/poets -including Zai Kuning, Jason Wee, Tania De Rozario, Ng Yi Sheng, Gaston Ng and many more- to write love letters printed in the form of limited edition postcards.

A new postcard is printed at the beginning of each month and the public is invited to pick them up for free at The Substation.

The Substation hopes to reconnect with its friends and lovers through these tender-hearted literary confessions. Launched this month, the project will run for a full year until June 2011.

Visit The Love Letters website where a new love letter will be uploaded every month.

Evan Lau is a multimedia designer currently working for the Singapore Media Academy,  a subsidiary of MediaCorp Pte Ltd. Besides his usual work in producing various design collaterals from print to web, Evan enjoys the new visual possibilities of mashing up his graphics and photographs.

‘Electricity’-featured above- is an artwork themed with fantasy, nature and technology. “I have a fascination with cities in the sky,” Evan explains. “Electricity is my rendition of that, and is a mash up of my own photos and stock images.”

Malvina Tan enjoys creating art installations, and she defines them as cellophane dreams; her ability to warp how she views each day by simply looking through a different sheet of cellophane each time. Having traveled through time, she feels strange in her surroundings. Malvina wishes she was living in the 1980s.

“Randomly surreal would be the basis of evolution for my creations,” Malvina explains. “Extreme interests in human beings, I dissect them physically and emotionally, then translate my findings through art.  My surgeries are conducted in my own backyard. During my spare time, I like to ride on velvet ponies and fly kites with fairies and unicorns.  I am currently trying to get out of a washing machine.”

The featured work is Malvina’s quirky take on the possibility of being able to purchase a sexual organ off the shelf, one that comes nicely packed, in a plastic envelope.

Malvina held her first solo exhibition in 2008 at ‘House’ located at Dempsey Road, as part of the ‘Adopt an Artist’ program.  Most recently, she exhibited her mixed media works alongside other artists at 12x: An Art Experiment.

Nathalie Théry is a half-French half-Singaporean concoction, who recently graduated from Temasek Polytechnic with a diploma in Visual Communication, majoring in Photography. “I focus mainly on fashion photography, but I also love to shoot food and products,” says Nathalie. “I started sketching and designing in secondary school,  but I soon realized that I liked capturing the fashion that was in my head, versus sewing up the garment. At that time my brother was doing photography for gigs at various clubs. I got interested and decided to merge my interest in fashion with photography. I also like to style my own shoots when time permits.”

For her final year project, Nathalie put together a lovely photographic project and a concept magazine to boot. The publication titled Wonderer, carries beautiful content from Nat’s shutter around three themes: Perpetual,  The Asylum and Native Spatiality. We’ve put up a couple of images for your viewing pleasure.

Nathalie set off to Melbourne last month to do her BA in photography at RMIT. You go girl!

One site,  two iconic buildings. The City Hall and former Supreme Court buildings are home to the memories of our nationhood and the recollections of our people. Come 2013, these grand buildings will be transformed into an exciting new visual arts venue, The National Art Gallery, Singapore.

To commemorate the break of a new era in Singapore’s art scene, The National Art Gallery, Singapore invite all budding photographers into these historic spaces for one last time. Take part today. Be part of history. Be part of the future.

More details can be found here.

All entries are to be submitted to:

The Photographic Society of Singapore
Selegie Art Centre
30 Selegie Road
Singapore 188351

Office Hours : (Mon to Fri) 2.00 pm to 10.00 pm
(Sat to Sun) 12.00 pm to 6.00 pm

Roy Wang began his Fine Arts training at age 3, but it was only in the past 5 or 6 years that he started experimenting with Photography and Graphic Design.” I think no matter what I do, I look at incorporating different realms together, because I believe fundamentally art is a form of universal passion and expression, and bringing these different principles together does allow for innovation and the element of the ‘unexpected’ in conveying what I want to say,” Roy adds. “Currently majoring in Visual Communications does allow me, in a lot of ways, to  bring forth design principles to my Art concepts, inspiring a more liberal approach and a spirit of nonconformity in producing my work.”

Fantasies of a Concrete Jungle is a series of ten photographs exploring the societal conflict between technology, the human race and nature.

Roy explains: “Societies progress and embark on more technological exploits, and nature has to pay price, and one wonders if we will  get to experience this natural warmth of beauty tomorrow. This is especially so for city dwellers like us, surrounded by a concrete jungle.  For my work, I am using a futuristic, fantastical and imaginative approach, which I guess is pretty childlike and vulnerable in many ways. The piece questions whether nature, in the future, would exist simply as a fantasy or a constructed fragment of our history.”