Art Talent Programme (ATP)
Artworks by ATP students (2020-2023)
‘NAN-nime’ is a portmanteau word coined from Nan Chiau High School and anime. It is a customised comic production by the NAN-nimators for NCzens. The Nan-nime project was conceptualised during the Circuit Breaker as online lessons to help students learn and acquire skills in storyboarding and character development in comic drawings. They were given relatable themes on mental health and relationship issues. Through their comic illustrations, the NAN-nimators created their stories and suggested solutions to overcome the challenges faced.
Class of 2021, ATP Batch 10
Hide and Seek
Mixed Media
School is our second home where we spent most of our time finding our ways with academic and about ourselves. We all have our own private corners in school which is meaningful and feels close to, be it spending time with friends or just being solo day dreaming away.
It is really daunting to learn that a single A4 sheet of paper we use so carelessly each time takes 10 litres of water to produce! We wanted to show with simple act we take, we can make a difference to aid the sustainability of our world, such as creating our portraits and memories digitally without fancy software, we save tones of trees and water!
ATP_2Sincerity_BehindtheScenes.mp4We are a group of ATP students who enjoy doing Art, doodling in particular. ATP allows us to explore Art beyond what we do in our regular art classrooms. This is a therapeutic project in which we have been given the opportunity to doodle on the glass door panels with the things we like e.g. our favourite comic and game characters and food.
Wall Mural Workshop
Voyage
Mixed media
These 7 panels of wall mural depicts local artists; symbolized by a phoenix with its distinctive characteristic of strength, going through different stages of its life along with the different timeline of Singapore’s development. It strived to pave their own ways through challenges and eventually emerged to achieve success. Each panel was also uniquely inspired by 7 different artists’ style in the sequence from left to right, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pablo Piccaso, Fernando Botero Angulo, Chua Ek Kay, Sarkasi Said and Georges Seurat.
Panel 1 – The Expressionistic swirls at the background reflected the uncertain feelings of the artists as they embarked their journey. However with positivity and passion, they pressed on to discover their strengths, hope and possibility of following their dreams as represented by the yellow and orange ray shining around them.
Panel 2 – With the characteristic of undefined lines of Impressionism, the dreamy and abstract mood represented Singapore as a fishing village and the young artists, evoked the early stages of life filled with apprehension.
Panel 3 – Filled with the peculiarity of Cubism style, this panel portrayed our nation and the artists’ struggles to find his/her own identity, amidst of the abstract structures of building; re-discovering themselves and their directions without losing their faith.
Panel 4 – With the style of “Boterismo” and complementary colours of red and green, the artists have managed to have acquainted some skills he/she would require in his/her journey of growth as shown with the exaggerated volume of the bird and progress of our nation.
Panel 5 – As our home was inflicted by World War II, both the nation and artists have to learn to cope with their lives as symbolized by the characteristic of bamboo in Chinese culture; to have moral integrity, resistance, modesty and loyalty.
Panel 6 – Similarly to the process of batik which required application of hot wax, cracking and multiple layering of colours to create boldness, vibrancy and elegant designs; our nation and the artists evolved through many layers of challenges to grow and flourish.
Panel 7 – Using pointillism techniques with chosen beautiful gradient of analogous colours, it depicted the tirelessness effort by our Forefathers and artists have eventually been fruitful, soaring into the limitless sky as a three dimensional shaped phoenix.