permission to Fill Your Walls

Remember the infantile urges that instinctively prompted us to surge uncontrollably, armed with a handful of Caran d’Ache crayons,  toward the freshly painted white walls that surrounded our playpens?

As surely as the infamous WWII Japanese pilots were convinced of the nobility of their cries for Kamikaze!, I recall charging toward the nearest available wall screaming Gwafitti! Like many teething toddlers, the potent combination of rebellious tendencies and an aesthetism-centric inclination overwhelmed my parents… but as history has shown, neither the Zero pilots  nor myself  got away unpunished.

So I grew up… alongside our governing Arts bodies who have evidently come of age too. In a display of creative enlightenment, the NAC is loosening its parental reigns, by encouraging emerging artists to regress and live out the aforesaid  ‘fantasies.’

Fill Your Wall is a wonderful initiative that seeks to support emerging artists in Singapore by levering on the online platform to usher their art into physical space via individual and group exhibitions.

The call for submission has been sounded, welcoming paintings of any theme, subject and medium. Closing Date is 5th July 2009.

60 chosen paintings will be showcased at the Breakthrough Art Exhibition: Creations II as part of the  Singapore Art Show 2009, with a chance of  securing ‘Permanent Residency’ status in the ‘Hall of Fame’ section of the Fill Your Walls website.

Submission details here.

Bon courage, les enfants! (Good Luck, children!)

 thangdynasty is a work-in-progress maintained by an accidental equity trader whose brief foray into the world of investments turned out… not so brief. Although unmotivated by the senseless pursuit of money in and for itself, she remains sadistically intrigued by the complex anatomy stealthily at work behind the whole spectrum of Markets – Fine Art, Financial, Fish and Fools. A budding art collector and supporter of emerging artists, she slogs to prevent collateral damage to her bank account resulting from occasional manic art buying sprees.