Lineage: The Winston Oh Travelogue Awards 25th anniversay exhibition
This exhibition celebrates a quarter century of the Winston Oh Travelogue Award as a testament to the lineages of care and culmination of research practice for the McNally School of Fine Arts recipients over the years. Since its inception in 1999, our students have been empowered to travel to different corners of the world to experience sensorially the paradigm shifts that being in another culture and space entails.
This Lineage edition of the showcase will see our students and past awardees coming together to make works about connecting the dots backwards and into the future, and drawing a line as a form of reflection about their artistic practice during their Travelogue Award to the following years.
This exhibition is curated by Adeline Kueh and Ian Woo.
︎ One more folded sunset: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 20th Anniversary
︎Strangers on an Island: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2021
︎ephemera: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2022
︎air || air: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2023
︎Lineage: The Winston Oh Travelogue 25th Anniversary Exhibition 2024
Winston Oh
Patron
May, 2019
Twenty years ago, Brother Joseph McNally planted the seed of Travelogue by suggesting that I should share my love for travel and painting with LASALLE students.
We spent the evening at a dinner function comparing our personal experiences of finding inspiration that came abundantly on our travels. Clearly the excitement of encountering new and different visual, physical, and emotional stimuli triggers and heightens our powers of observation and emotional response.
Travelogue was conceived to enable LASALLE students and graduates to venture abroad to immerse themselves in a new environment, with different culture, language, landscape, climate and architecture; to record and analyse their response to their new experiences; and to exhibit their creations on their return. Using, one expects, the skills and training they have acquired from the college.
It warms my heart to observe over the years, the evolution of this project from humble beginnings to become such a well organised and structured programme that has attracted such brilliant and exciting participants. I look forward to Travelogue each year, not only to the exhibition, but to meeting and engaging with the students whom I find intelligent, articulate and so creative. I am also secretly learning about contemporary art, of which I knew nothing at the beginning, and will finally get to grips with it in ten years’ time.
Travelogue exists only because of several key people in LASALLE who nurtured and honed it and who should take all the credit for it. Milenko Prvacki, then Dean of Fine Arts, took the helm for many years. Ian Woo has been the stalwart from the beginning. Together with the lynchpin Adeline Kueh, they are synonymous with Travelogue. I am so touched that they are still enthusiastically engaged in this programme, and I value their friendship and guidance over all the years. We are also grateful for the invaluable help from Hazel Lim and Jeremy Sharma who have shepherded the students through the programme.
We spent the evening at a dinner function comparing our personal experiences of finding inspiration that came abundantly on our travels. Clearly the excitement of encountering new and different visual, physical, and emotional stimuli triggers and heightens our powers of observation and emotional response.
Travelogue was conceived to enable LASALLE students and graduates to venture abroad to immerse themselves in a new environment, with different culture, language, landscape, climate and architecture; to record and analyse their response to their new experiences; and to exhibit their creations on their return. Using, one expects, the skills and training they have acquired from the college.
It warms my heart to observe over the years, the evolution of this project from humble beginnings to become such a well organised and structured programme that has attracted such brilliant and exciting participants. I look forward to Travelogue each year, not only to the exhibition, but to meeting and engaging with the students whom I find intelligent, articulate and so creative. I am also secretly learning about contemporary art, of which I knew nothing at the beginning, and will finally get to grips with it in ten years’ time.
Travelogue exists only because of several key people in LASALLE who nurtured and honed it and who should take all the credit for it. Milenko Prvacki, then Dean of Fine Arts, took the helm for many years. Ian Woo has been the stalwart from the beginning. Together with the lynchpin Adeline Kueh, they are synonymous with Travelogue. I am so touched that they are still enthusiastically engaged in this programme, and I value their friendship and guidance over all the years. We are also grateful for the invaluable help from Hazel Lim and Jeremy Sharma who have shepherded the students through the programme.
Strangers on an Island: The Winston Oh Travelogue Award 2021
This unique edition of The Winston Oh Travelogue Award puts forth the question of what it means to be on an island with a total of 193 kilometres of coastline, as well as what our relationships to each other may encompass with the different stages of lockdown and isolation, plus the inability to travel beyond our national border during this pandemic.
One more folded sunset: Winston Oh Travelogue
Award 20th Anniversary
This exhibition celebrates the 20 years of artists’ engagement with ideas of traveling, enabled by Dr Winston Oh’s kind patronage. Together with this year’s recipients, the selected awardees from the past Travelogue award will explore their journeys and encounters with their place of visit. Taking a line from Elizabeth Bishop’s poem (Questions of travel), One More Folded Sunset puts forth the experiential components within the process of making a journey, as well as reflections about the artistic journey 20 years later.
Curated by Adeline Kueh