IB Art Students Win Business Times Art Prize
1 January 2022
Two IB art students won awards in the first 13-19 Art Prize. Read what their works explore.
Two art students from IB Class of 2021 - Lucius Yeo (LE607) and Valerie Tan (ML615) emerged as winners in the 13-19 Art Prize 2021 organised by The Business Times. The 13-19 Art Prize is an inaugural nationwide youth visual art competition. It offers all youths, aged 13-19, residing in Singapore the opportunity to express themselves, and have their potential recognized by creating canvas and digital artworks on any theme or subject. The competition hopes to challenge the creative potential of our youth and promote a diversity of artistic expressions.
Read more about Lucius' winning work in Business Times: Teen artists offer varied visions of Singapore as home in 13-19 Art Prize (opens in new tab)
Yeo Jun Jie, Lucius
Home (2021) - Gold Award
Papercut
While in the same HDB space, every room is disconnected from the other by its different perspective and symbolic door sills, exploring loneliness of elderly even with family. Rotary telephone dials are distorted into couches or dining tables to convey a lack of communication. Interactive spaces are empty. The towering railings convey powerlessness, alluding to elderly’s autonomy which impacts social interactions. Collaged obituary pages and the urn conveys death, alluding to lost friends.
Tan Fang Ting, Valerie
Read my Essay (2020) - Merit Award
Digital Art
Read my Essay begins my series of works to advocate for students with learning disabilities. The impossible rollercoaster extends in every direction to represent a Dysgraphic student's lack of control over their handwriting. The chaotic composition further amplifies the distress these students face. The words scribbled in the background, "Sometimes we don't fit within the lines", reflect not only the struggle of physical control but the struggle to fit into the competitive education system.