About the Programme Team | Curators, Adeline Kueh and Dr Ian Woo
Dr Ian Woo is an artist and musician influenced by forms of modernism, perceptual abstraction and the sound structures of music improvisation. His paintings and drawings are characterised by a sense of gravitational and representational change.
As an educator, Dr Woo leads the MA Fine Arts programme which focuses on developing artistic practice as research. He developed the curriculum for studio practice research through validations by Open University and Goldsmiths University. He has supervised artists who have had representations in the Venice and Singapore Biennale, as such, he has been instrumental in shaping the artistic profile and history of Singapore art since the turn of the millennium. Dr Woo has exhibited globally and his works are in the collection of major institutions such as ABN AMRO, Singapore Art Museum, The Istana Singapore, National Gallery Singapore, UBS, and the Mint Museum of Craft & Design, USA.
His paintings were featured in the publication Art of the New Cities: 21st Century Avant-Gardes, a publication by Phaidon Press, 2013. Since 2016, together with Beth Harland, David Thomas and Laura Lisbon, Dr Woo has been part of the experimental painting collaborative project Impermanent Durations – On Painting and Time. As a musician, Dr Woo has composed and performed on the bass guitar with ID, Qianpima and Closing Time. He has performed at Singapore’s C.H.O.P.P.A Experimental Music Festival from 2008–2017.
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Adeline Kueh makes installations and socially embodied works that reconsider the relationship we have with things and rituals around us. Using drawing as a conceptual tool, Adeline looks to cartographies, craft and oral traditions to map out historical trajectories across time and space through her use of found objects and new productions.
Presently a Senior Lecturer with the MA Fine Arts programme at LASALLE, Adeline has exhibited
internationally. She was involved in the World Architecture Festival (2016–2017), Hermes Singapore (2016), Venice Biennale (2019), the Singapore Tyler Print Institute’s Visiting Artists Programme (VAP) Residency (2021), NTU CCA IdeasFest 2023: Eat. Secure. Sustain, and Asia NOW Paris (2023). In January 2024, Adeline was involved in the Gangwon Cultural Olympics and Heritage Exchange Exhibition: The Fabulous Stories to Save the Green Planet, staged at Gyeongpo Beach, South Korea.
Since 2001, Adeline has been the driving force for advocating interdisciplinary rigour in contemporary research practice in both postgraduate and undergraduate studies in the McNally School of Fine Arts at the College. She was instrumental in developing curricula that were sensitive to art history, theory and studio practice for the validation processes for Open University and Goldsmiths, University of London. She has held many portfolios including being the Programme Leader/Director of Studies for Art Theory and Art History (2000–2004) and Programme Coordinator for MA Art History (2006–2008). She has supervised a significant number of postgraduate dissertations and research practice of luminaries in the contemporary Singapore arts, design and media scenes including Cultural Medallion, President’s Young Talent Award and President’s Design Award winners. Adeline has co-curated graduation showcases for the MA Fine Arts programme and has spearheaded Open Studios, industry and outreach projects with the alumni community of the College in Singapore and beyond. Adeline is an Ewha Global Fellow with Ewha Womans University, South Korea from 2024 to 2026.