Studio Moonchild is the collaborative effort of two Singaporean artists, ANACATHIE and FREAKYFIR. ArtsEquator: It seems that there are usually two ways to go after a major incident like this: either you stay in the fringes and continue to work in a subversive space, or you gain institutional validation and work with established, legitimate commissioners. A healthy society is one that can be open to criticism, dissent, discussion and discourse. I believe that my peers in the scene are in this for the long run. ZERO: Artists have always been at the forefront of de-constructing, critiquing and documenting life that is contemporary to their times. Street art had always been around in Singapore – the graffiti movement started here in the late ’90s by Operation Artkore (OAC), ProjectBurnerz (PB) and ZincNiteCrew (ZNC), the street art movement followed suit, pioneered by ARTVSTS, my former collective – but it was always in the fringe, it never truly created any sort of real critical public discourse. ArtsEquator: Hi! Artist Talk, Pop Up Exhibition, Mural Production, The Esplanade, 222, Queen Street, Singapore, SOUTH EAST ASIA CONVERSE Mural Installation, Manila - Jakarta - Bangkok - Singapore - Kuala Lumpur, THE SOLIDARITY Movement: Indonesia X Singapore, THE SOLIDARITY Movement: Singapore x Indonesia, Artist Talk, Pop Up Exhibition, Mural Production, Bosny Graffiti Tour, Curator and participating artists under RSCLS, Celebrating Cultural Diversity Through Urban Art, Organised by RSCLS for the NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL, Collaborative Exhibition with DMR, TraseOne, A Homecoming Showcase of "Graffiti" Art in Singapore, Artistic Expression of the World Today Exhibition, Creative Direction, consultation for guerilla marketing campaign, Under Lasalle College of the Arts and Dr Winston Oh, Charity Auction Artwork  for ST Pocket Money Fund, Collaborative Exhibition with Khairuddin Hori, The Killer Gerbil and Lil Pink Devil, Live motion mural painting:- Zero, LilPinkDevil, The Killer Gerbil, TraseOne collaboration, Graffiti Art Workshop Trainer/ Judging panel for Noise Festival Graffiti Artwork Design, Street Festival 2005 Live Street Mural Paintings with TraseOne(SG), Araldyte(UK,) Yok(AUS). At the end of the day, it is up to me to choose and look into potential projects, evaluate for myself whether these potential projects align with my personal ideals and ethics. We use art as a conduit to articulate and present our views and ideas.

ARTVSTS not only did works on the streets but managed to push their works into the Singapore Art Museum, and other exhibitions and events.

Share an article you’ve read with our readers. While Antz took a step back from the prying eyes of the media, Sam had to deal extensively with them, which we all know now had a detrimental effect on her being. The incident was highly publicised, leading to debates about the line between vandalism and creative expression. For the second time in Singapore’s contemporary art history, a townhall meeting was organised by the arts community to address it. New artists, many whom have never ever painted anything illegal on the streets, are now calling themselves street artists, just because they painted a couple of murals on legal walls. Partnering with some of the biggest ACME providers, ZeroSSL allows you to manage and renew existing certificates without ever lifting a finger. Art that solely serves the needs of a particular authoritative entity is propaganda. We are now in a different place in our lives where we have families, living expenses and such. All Rights Reserved. The ARTVSTS collective paved the way for the growth of street art in Singapore in the early to mid 2000s. New artists, many whom have never ever painted anything illegal on the streets, are now calling themselves street artists, just because they painted a couple of murals on legal walls. All aggregated content, including articles, videos, podcasts, Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia. After numerous years in the toy and game industries, the pair expresses themselves through graffiti and mural art that incorporates their mutual love of pop-culture, anime, and manga art. It is up to the artists themselves to discern various opportunities presented to them. The subjectivity of art creates a space for deeper thinking and various opinions. He also received the National Arts Council Young Artist Award in 2013 and was a nominee for the President’s Young Talent in 2005. I have been in this scene for about 18 years now, I have seen so many pretenders come and go.

Social media has definitely changed the scene. Formed in 2012, Eman Jeman and Nadirah Abdul Razak's style revolves around the concept of calculative geometric patterns. As a collective we are focused on graffiti and street art. ZERO: “Selling out”, that is a term I used to hear a lot. What is art and what constitutes vandalism. Can you comment on this?

ArtsEquator asks artist Zul Othman from RSCLS some questions about the street art scene in Singapore, then and now. Trying to catch up to things during its peak  will most times than not burn you out.

Feature on street art and graffiti in Singapore, Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund Feature, Interview for article on Is This Home Truly? The first peak came in the early 2000s when OAC pushed it into the forefront, it then plateaued till ARTVSTS came in mid 2003. ArtsEquator: What happened to Sam has happened to a number of artists since then, and historically, it’s not exactly a new thing. The “Sticker Lady” fiasco also happened during an interesting period of time. Your email address will not be published. To date, they have racked up esteemed clients such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

Art for most of us is essential to our lives. What happened to Sam and Antz pushed us more into the forefront. Required fields are marked with *. SYCO03's first gig was a mural completed for Zouk in 1999. At about the same time Sam and Antz got arrested, RSCLS became the first street art collective to receive a major grant from the National Arts Council (NAC). Now everyone just slaps the label street art on their exhibitions, events and bios to project a sense of “street cred” or make things seem edgier. I think it is important for us to be able to choose the right projects that allow us to express what we need to. ZERO: Can’t we do both? The spirit of it is dead, if you ask me. His is an unconventional practice, opting to delve into the subculture norms of …

He is the founder of RSCLS, an artist collective that seeks to evolve and develop urban art. Collective featured on Channel U docu-drama HeARTS and Soul. It gave the public a great interest in the scene here and she represented it.

Arguably one of Singapore's most prominent graffiti artists, Ceno2 aka Azlan Ramlan has made his mark all over the world including several hundred in Chicago and New York as well as around the Metropolitan Avenue area in Brooklyn and Germany's Hyatt Regency Mainz.

Currently represented by Chan + Hori Contemporary and Gallery Krisstel Martin, he draws inspiration for his signature black-and-white works from the cultures of punk, underground music, and his Baweanese heritage.

By law, whatever the two of them did was vandalism, but if we look into the intentions of the Sam’s action, there was a lot of thought process to it. Exhibitions, projects and such are great but it does not allow me to have a sustainable income.

LEARN MORE Art serves this function. happened during an interesting period of time. The first peak came in the early 2000s when OAC pushed it into the forefront, it then plateaued till ARTVSTS came in mid 2003. His style is always evolving, and his works are often site-specific in nature. | Prior to the arrests, RSCLS had started discussions with NAC to procure various public spaces all around Singapore to be earmarked as public graffiti mural walls.

I am also co-founder of the RSCLS collective along with Antz.