One Singapore artist remembers the glory days of his art career, creating large and lofty structures in bronze, steel, and other mixed mediums. He took advantage of all the space he had living in a kampung, never so much as considering limiting the size and style of his artworks because of it.
However, when he was forced to move to a housing project that didn’t include any kind of storage space, the artist had to leave behind much of his body of work. There simply wasn’t any place to keep his larger sculptures, and he ended up giving up sculpture altogether, moving back to painting, which didn’t take up as much room as his 3-D artistic efforts.
Now, though, with a new government initiative to find housing and space for artists and their various projects, the artist has been set up in a former primary school that has been transformed into an affordable studio space for a group of artists. He can now continue to pursue his passion for sculpture and projects on a larger scale because of the new space made available to him.
The artist shares the space designated for art by the government with nearly thirty other artists and two art collectives. There are studio spaces in the facility, along with the ability to convert the space into a gallery to show various artworks. The artist credits his access to the facility with turning his career around and allowing him the resources he requires to make his 3-D masterpieces.
The space itself is ample, giving artists plenty of room to work, grow, and experiment with their art. The grounds the former primary school are situated on are full of greenery and flowers, making the studios beautiful and almost like not living in a city at all. Though there is a road just outside the building, artists say they never hear the traffic because the building is insulated with the trees. Artists who work there also have the added benefit of being able to readily collaborate with other artists. When many creative minds are in the same place, the facility can work as a sort of incubator for ideas, meaning that there are a lot of different viewpoints and talents present that could take ordinary ideas and elevate them into something truly great.
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To learn more about arts housing project and the artists benefiting from it, go to http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/living-city-creative-haven-for-artists-at-telok-kurau-studios.