Artist: Ron Wong (Singapore)

Ron uses paintings to take a critical view at social and humanity amid expressing them in a caricatured and ironical way. Subjects and faces of the paintings were created from memories of Ron’s past and daily experiences. While the mild distortions were not intentional, Ron painted them as per her memories.

“I did it because they are what I see. I do not try to see the best in people, but I try my best to see the real people in them. I believe a level of aesthetics can be revealed by putting the opposing elements together such as beauty and ugliness, truth and falsity, good and evil, as they can bring out the best qualities of one another. This level of aesthetics can never dilute or diminish life's realities, but only to encourage humanity towards the better.”

In Innocence and I Will Follow You, Ron depicts the theme on love, childhood and its accompanying innocence. Each painting has a story of its own, waiting to be remembered and told through the eyes of a child and the awakened memories of the adult.

Artist: Lee Se-yong (South Korea)

Korean ceramic artist, Lee Se Yong, creates opposites. Embracing tradition, he refines and redefines basics with modern forms of clay-sculpturing, at the same time working freely with both traditional and modern images. The ancient craft of inlay, spinning and firing is his favoured mode of artistic delivery.

Seeking inspiration from nature, Lee emphasizes imperfection and perfection at the same time. His style is purposely minimalist and at times asymmetrical and roughly textured, seemingly unfinished and flawed. Yet he attains perfection through the intricate artistry of the work. Using blue paint on white porcelain, Lee is concerned with depicting light and shade, delicate lines and bold spaces.

Lee also blends the gap between utility and aestheticism seamlessly. While the idea of the everyday object is not new, Lee’s unique contribution lies in the creation rather than the product and creates ceramic works that are conceptual in ideas and form. 

Artist: Kim Kyung Min (South Korea)

Kim Kyung Min, with her sensitive perception and rich sentiment, reproduces scenes taken from our daily lives and turn them into joyful sculpture works. As a mother of three children and a wife to a husband, Kim Kyung Min finds subjects from everyday happenings at home which is a big part of her life and sculpts three-dimensional figures with an add of her fertile imagination. Kim Kyung Min now bases her work and emphasis around the family theme, each family member's role and their harmony as a whole. In her series of 'A Close Relationship' describing bath time, it shows a couple and a mother-children help each other and build intimacy by bathing together and her 'Homeward Bound' of a family cycling to home reminds viewers that a balance between family members is essential for family peace.

In the flood of abstruse contemporary art that often characterized by abstraction and non-objectivity, concept and "ism", Kim Kyung Min's easily understandable sculpture with humor and universality captures the eyes of contemporaries. The artist wishes to convey warmth and healing with her work to modern people who cannot easily open to others due to hurt and pain. Kim does not aim to make a grandiose aesthetic statement like existential philosophy and artistic discourse. Instead she values basic human ethics that have remained unchanged for long in despite of art historical flow and changes of the time thus practices the original function of the arts. Viewers become a part of this story told by Kim Kyung Min's artificial figures and naturally share the artist's intention of pursuing happiness of daily life and little joys.

Artist: Shih Li-Jen (Taiwan)

Shih Li-Jen was born in Changhua County, Taiwan, 1955, a celebrated art curator and art manager in China and Taiwan. In 2004 and 2006, Shih Li-Jen won a major award of the "Art and Business Aware" from the Council for Culture Affairs, Taiwan. As the years working with international master artists such as César, F. Arman, P. Hiquily ... etc, that arouse his creativity. His paintings and sculptures presented family affection between animals. The works of Rhino Family express his views toward life and world, through the roles of a family, it tells Shih Li-Jen's characters of both being strong and tender, on his way of leading the trend, he pays homage to the eternal aesthetics of classics.

Artist: Qin Weihong (China)

With being inspired and illuminated by the Surrealism, Qin Weihong has developed a certain pattern to express his anti-traditional style. His approaches are in between reality and fiction, fragile state and complex relations are presented figuratively. Ultimately, we were fascinated by those works, simultaneously brought into deep reflections of human kind's thoughts. Subsequently it was developed into interrogation of human’s behaviors. 

Qin Weihong graduated from Department of Sculpture at China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. Being China's new rising emerging sculptor, he is reckoned as the representative of his generation. Standing out of large numbers of young artists, his works are distinguishingly characterized with avant-garde style. Spectators are often touched deeply down by the tinges of rich emotions, as well as romantic, poetic and youthful perceptions manifested by Qin’s works. 

Artist: Yura Seo (South Korea)

The process of ‘creating a stack of books’ is similar to ‘slow traveling’. 

While piling up books one by one is rather time consuming, it is associated with the beauty of breathing slowly. As the images and texts hidden in a pile of books that embody distinct individual personality create harmony to produce a work of art, they represent the harsh foundation of our lives full of complexity yet marked with touches of sensibility. 

- Artist's Note

Artist: Yuki Mitsuyasu (Japan)

SHINE Collection

SANTORINI Collection

Raised in Singapore, and later educated at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London, Yuki Mitsuyasu designs and constructs jewellery intended to tell a story. Carefully crafted into each piece is a narrative, waiting to be recounted, explored, and shared. 

SHINE

“When you choose your partner, his religion, nationality, or wealth does not matter; be with someone who lets you shine, then he is a man worth being with.”- Toshiyuki Mitsuyasu

Shine is characterised by two hearts. Each symbolizing a person. Each bold and unique from the other. Together though, they realize something brighter than if they were apart. On the Shine necklace, the two hearts come together to complete the clasp (and pendant) as a star.

VARUNA

A drop of water runs down a mountain, joins a river, enters the ocean – and serendipitously, finds its way back to the mountain again.

The Varuna collection, named after the god of sky, water and the celestial oceans, recounts this circle of life. The circle of life also connotes the idea of heaven and earth. Interestingly, for people dwelling in the mountains of Himalaya, heaven is not in the sky, but in the ocean. It is where water, the source of life, flows. This is perhaps why the spiritual river Ganges is often revered as a passage to holiness.

SANTORINI

Whitewashed walls, blue domes, square windows, cubist houses that look like they were drawn with pencils. This collection is inspired by Santorini, a little Greek island sculpted by unique architecture and crowned with numerous churches. 

Using the cross as a main motif, the pieces in this collection are constructed with simple, clean lines. The unpolished brushed effect, square holes and blue topaz in these jewellery pieces, are reminiscent of the idyllic landscape of the island.

GO WITH THE FLOW

There is no one right way of wearing this pendant.

By looping each end of the chain through the pendant differently, a different-looking necklace takes shape each time. It all depends on how you choose to position the ends of the chain.

As you wear the necklace, the pendant might still adjust itself to sit more comfortably on your neck, going with the flow.