Studio 19 is an artists' residence and art studio where artists can produce art, brainstorm and discuss about art related matters. Currently, 3 artists, Zulkifle Mahmod, Urich Lau and Kai Lam are using this space to live and work. To us it's a challenge to our artistic practice be able to transform this multi-purpose space at will to create an environment where art becomes total experience for us. In this way, the space can allow us to share ideas and to develop and produce current and future collaborative works. We hope to establish Studio 19 as a more viable art space where activities like workshops, discussions and exhibitions can occur more often, so if you have any art projects or activities to share with us please feel free to contact us.

For the next presentation of Studio 19, we are planning to organize a video screening of local and overseas artists' works, if you have any works that you will like to show please let us know. Dateline for submission of work is end of March.

After a year of staying and working in Studio 19, we have decided to present an inaugural open studio exhibition to showcase works that were produced recently and in the past. Most works will be in 2-dimensional form, which we have done during the time when we were making other artworks individually. There will also be a collaborative sound performance on the open studio day itself as a prelude to an on-going sound project that we are working on. So come, spend a merry making weekend with us and enjoy our artistic productions.

Sunday Drawing Class

Everything is drawing
-Joseph Beuys

On every Sunday afternoon, Studio 19 will conduct a drawing session for artists coming from any discipline, form or faculty. It is not an instructional class but a session implemented for the gregarious meeting of like-minded artists for an afternoon of creativity and interaction. It is also for other artists who are unfamiliar in drawing to participate in this elementary practice. Every week there will be a model posing nude for the class. This class is conducted by Urich Lau. For more information about the drawing class, please email us. Hope you will come and join us.

Studio 19, SINGAPORE.

Kai Lam Hoi Lit

Born in 1974, Lam Hoi Lit , kAI is a visual artist based in Singapore. He has been practising Sculpture since 1995 and Installation Art, Video Art and Performance Art since 1998. In 2002, he was awarded a study grant from Lee Foundation and education bursary from National Arts Council, and graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Bachelor of arts where he majored in Sculpture. Lam Hoi Lit have travelled extensively to Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan, Germany and United Kingdom to present his artworks which are created as a social commentary and creative response to urban pluralistic society.

To him as an artist, Art-making is a tool for better understanding of the environment where he lives in and an exploration of life and social human conditions. He is currently an active member of The Artists Village and Sculpture Society, Singapore.

Urich Lau Wai-Yuen

In his training, Urich received his diploma in visual arts from Lasalle-SIA, College of the Arts in 1997; Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Tasmania in 2001; and is now reading his Master of Fine Art back in Lasalle-SIA, conferred by RMIT, due to complete in June 2004.

In his practice that involves innumerous experimentations and investigations of the many art forms and styles that are implanted in this cultural cauldron, Urich also tries to exhibit and expose his works as often as possible, but is careful not to be bounded in what is narrowly deemed what should and what should not be art.

Zulkifle Mahmod

Zulkifle Mahmod or better known as zul was born in 1975 in a rural village of Singapore. He received his art education at the LaSalle SIA College of the Arts majoring in Sculpture in 1997. Zul is also an associate artist with the Substation. In 2001, he was accepted to do a residency programme at Ona Art Centre in Norway. He was there for 4 months.

Zul likes to work with found and ready made objects for his sculptures and installation work. His work is defined by the boundaries that demand tolerance and sensitivity to ensure co-existence in a multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious society.