School of Art and Design

School of Art & Design, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences.

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SPADICE

"The stars will never be won by little minds; we must be big as space itself." ~Robert A. Heinlein SPADICE (Surface Pattern Art & Design Interdisciplinary Collaborative Effort) Established in 2021, SPADICE is a new project concept initiated by its founder Tan Haur (Singapore) during the COVID-19 pandemic, whereby many art educators are facing quite a fair bit of challenges in the physical classroom teaching & learning, as well as brick-and-mortar space to showcase and share the artistic effort of the creators. The key idea of SPADICE is to enable the participants to have a feel of how their two-dimensional drawing (digital/ conventional media) can be transformed and realized in the form of a 3-D product after attending Tan Haur's NAC AEP courses and visual art workshops. As for phase one of the SPADICE project (November 2021 - 31st March 2022), the team is working with the Rainbow Centre (Margaret Drive School), River Valley High School, and Anderson Serangoon Junior College as a start. This project is to let the students experience a full journey from their learning to art creation and virtual presentation. SPADICE also works with several guests, including SEPs, musicians, artists with special needs, designers, crafters, and independent art creators who specialize in areas with their right and churn out something new with the surface pattern design methodology and craft technology via collaborative effort. Over this growing platform, we encourage communication, suggestions, and future collaboration. Together, we’ll be able to improve, grow, and benefit everybody in a long run. Hence, SPADICE encompasses a complete journey started from curriculum design, teaching, learning, drawing, painting, pattern-designing, printing, and crafting till finished 3-D products for sharing. We welcome your constructive input as well as all forms of support. Thank you very much! Contact founder (Tan Haur): tanhaur@gmail.com *SPADICE is a creative art project proudly supported by the National Arts Council, Singapore. 

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 "Fish are friends, not food!" 

(Cross-Body Bag Surface Pattern Design)

Art & Design by: Tan Haur

Product & Service Inquiry: tanhaur@gmail.com

Learning

*Workshop: Applied Arts, 2022.

*For: Public, Mainstream Schools, Special Schools, and Corporations (Team-Building).

*Lecturer: Tan Haur

*Mode: Online (Zoom) or Classroom Mode.

*Profile: https://cass.anu.edu.au/profiles/tan-haur

*Contact: tanhaur@gmail.com

*WhatsApp: (+65) 9070 2000

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Unlock creativity through digital doodling and painting!

(New online workshop by Tan Haur)

This program focuses on exercising the creative side of the mind through idea exploration, mental stimulation, and visualizing your thoughts and feelings through digital doodling and painting.

The online art program is proudly supported by the National Arts Council (Singapore) and presenting to you by artist Tan Haur. #SGCultureAnywhere

Digital Doodling & Painting workshop is open to everyone worldwide, please drop me an email if you’re interested:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

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Supernova Interview

The new year holiday season is fast approaching, and it’s been great connecting with you guys all this while. Just before the arrival of 2020, I am honored to have been interviewed by the Visual Collaborative (a U.S.-based festival and publishing platform that receives acclaim internationally) to share my belief and practice in art, design, and life. Here is the link for the interview @ the VC's “Supernova” catalog:

https://www.visualcollaborative.com/tan_haur/

Wishing all a joyful Christmas holiday and New Year ahead!

臨近尾聲的2019年，我很榮幸能受邀參與美國媒體Visual Collaborative的一個越洋採訪，該平台著重介紹和發揚人文，商業和創新科技的交匯與共享。 這是VC的“ Supernova”目錄中的採訪鏈接：

https://www.visualcollaborative.com/tan_haur/

預祝大家聖誕佳節和新年快樂！

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Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

Art & Design Awards

Congratulations to six of my students (Digital Art & Design Workshops) who had won the Live On Design Competition (LODC) Award 2019. The LODC is to raise public awareness on organ donation and transplant, the theme for the Live On Design Competition this year, “More Than Me – Beyond This Life,” prompts us to think beyond ourselves and how each and every one of us can make a difference in the lives of others. Photo credits: Live On - Support Organ Donation Facebook Community Page.

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Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

Applied art & design by Tan Haur

Abode of enchantment - Premium Backpack
Surface patterns art & design by Tan Haur

A Galax of blossom the woodland garden,
A meltdown of Tembusu-brown.

A walkway abode of enchantment.

Standard unisex size: 17.75” (H) x 12.25” (W) x 5.75” (D)
Crafted with durable spun poly fabric for high print quality
Interior pocket fits up to 15” laptop
Padded nylon back and bottom
Adjustable shoulder straps
Front pocket for accessories

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

Talent Development - Kids with Special Needs

This year's National Day Parade (NDP) fun packs will be featuring art & design from special education students for the first time.

One of my student's artwork has been selected by the NDP 2018 committee! Congratulations Zer Yinn! Talent development (digital art & design) for kids with special needs requires time, system and patience, hard work but we know we are on the right path! Thanks for everything, everyone and happy birthday Singapore in advance!

~ Tan Haur
Illustrator, textile artist, and educator.

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

2015 Community Art Award - Digital & Mixed Media Giant Façade Art @ Heartland, Singapore.

Yishun-team and I are honoured and thankful to have received the Community Art Award presented by Ms Grace Fu Hai Yien (Minister for Culture, Community and Youth & Leader of the House, Singapore) on our giant façade art “Yishun Symphony of Life”! This award reaffirms my aim and focuses to make art more accessible to the people by bringing it right to the heartland of Singapore and the region, emphasizing direct interaction and dialogue with the community, and breaking the notion of art exhibition and appreciation has to be confined within the four walls of a gallery or museum. Besides believing skylight is our best spotlight and ambient light, today we celebrate our success in utilizing visual art as a form of universal lingo to bring different races, nationalities and people from all walks of life together regardless of language, ethnic group and religion. Together we bring arts and culture to reach “Everyone, Everywhere, every day.”

~ Tan Haur
(Community Artist/ Designer)

 

I ♥ SG, I ♥ Yishun

(Cover-photo credit: The Straits Times Newspaper 8th AUG 2015)

Visual artist: Tan Haur

Happy Birthday Singapore!

Yishun residents are in high spirit presenting this eight stories width façade art to commemorate the Singapore Golden Jubilee. A heart warming community façade art co-created by the residents and myself to celebrate Singapore’s 50th anniversary of independence! I planned it in a form of “Process Art” + "Contemporary POP ART" to be incorporated with mixed media and digital technology, kick start with several workshops to engage the Yishun's residents and students from nearby primary schools in Observational Drawing (sketching with pencil and paper) and developed into Contemporary POP ART creation. I was pleased that they had created interesting pencil line drawings as foundation for the façade art, we move on to digital processing in stage two and later apply traditional paint medium onto the digital printouts.

The entire process was exiting and engrossing, residents experienced how their key drawing elements were streamlined into graphical images via smart phone apps. With the current new media and technologies, I standardized their pencil mark making styles and strokes, montage and unite the composition with short listed digital colours and visual tension manipulation. Files were sent for inkjet output into elongated banner forms right after vector-conversion and colour management, residents carry on to complete the final artwork with weather shield pastel color paint for the backdrop doubled with polka dots.

The collaborative effort makes all staying in Singapore and Yishun proud; it represents the core value and belief of our people, living in harmony with nature, different races and religions. Here, we promote team work spirit, cohesion, enduring values that we share as Singaporeans, values that undergird the Singapore Spirit – values that have stood us in good stead in the past and give us confidence for an even brighter future.

This artwork is about the stories of Yishun in the northern part of Singapore. Yishun town has a distinctive historical background, the unique waterways that had played a major role in the history of human settlements and developments, pineapple and rubber tree plantation that boost the economy in the earlier days, and the irreplaceable kampong spirit that keeps Yishun forever so lively and attractive. I was deeply touched and inspired by the culture and peoples in this part of Singapore, a strong feeling to amplify its native habitat as a visual representation of Yishun town, a pictorial depiction of where it began and where it is heading.

(Pineapple and Rubber Tree)
Yishun is the Mandarin Romanisation of Nee Soon, named after the "pineapple king" and rubber magnate, Lim Nee Soon (b. 1879). In the old days, pineapple and rubber tree plantation was the daily sight of the residents in Yishun town; it had contributed to the major economy growth of Singapore.

(Heliconia and Sunbird)
They can be commonly sighted before Yishun turned into a massive ground of housing estate development. You are still able to spot Heliconia and Sunbird in Yishun area by paying more attention in the green zone and rural areas. Heliconia signifies the blooming life and spirit of Yishun, and the Sunbird represents freedom, goals and a balance of nature and manmade environment.

(Peoples and the Waterways)
The elongated light pastel colours backgrounds symbolize the roles and impacts of waterways in the past and now. All over the world, waterways play a major role in the history of human settlements and development. They provide water, food and a means of livelihood and transport for people who settle down around them. Likewise, the waterways here served the same purposes. In the past, these rivers were populated by river nomads known as Orang Seletar. They travelled along these waterways and the Straits of Johor, depending on the rivers for food and transport.

The first Chinese settlers here most probably arrived via these waterways. In the early 1800s, Chinese settlements formed at the foot of the rivers, most notably Seletar River. Plantations were established around these settlements. During the early days, before roads were built there, the planters would transport their produce to warehouses in town by boat down the waterways and along the eastern coast to Singapore River. While these waterways no longer serve as a means of transport and food now, they continue to play an important role in our lives. Seletar River, dammed to form Upper and Lower Seletar Reservoirs, is an important source of water for Singaporeans today.

The free flowing colored polka dots in the background symbolize our citizens and the aspiration of peoples from different races, backgrounds and religions. We are one and move as one; One People, One Nation, and One Singapore. Majulah Singapura!

~ Artist Tan Haur

Community Art - PassionArts @ Chong Pang THK Singapore

Guest of honor Minister Mr K.Shanmugam




Digital artist: Tan Haur


7 DEC 2014