Visit SPADICE at Design Orchard, Singapore.

 Visit SPADICE at Design Orchard and make this holiday season truly memorable with our handcrafted treasures. Unwrap the magic of Christmas at SPADICE! Now until December 31st.

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*At SPADICE, we’re all about teamwork. A portion of every sale goes to our incredible partners and collaborators, making success a shared adventure.

Pay us a visit @ 250 Orchard Road, Singapore 238905. We're excited to have you drop by!

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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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Applied Arts Workshop - for Students with Special Needs

It was wonderful to conduct the Applied Art workshops for a group of talented students with special needs. I am exploring a variety of design concepts and developments with the students' artwork, for their 2-D artistic visual language to be appreciated through multiple 3-D products.

Inquiry, collaboration, support, and connection:
Tan Haur
tanhaur@gmail.com
WhatsApp (+65) 9070 2000

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！

[Connection]

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.

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

The Art of Collaboration

Congrats to all art students and art educators on their collaborative effort and exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore! We are all very proud of this meaningful event and enjoy the journey of creation and interaction.

As an artist & educator, I enjoy working through art collaboration and self-designed art-making processes to obtain unique artistic lingo. It fuels my art, pushes me by understanding a subject matter from different perspectives, and helps me grow by challenging me through group participation, interaction, and interpretation.

In this series of work, I worked with two separate groups of students to create two-dimensional spaces made up of elements that resonate between the familiar and the unknown. By employing different perspectives, I try to encourage an experiential view of the mindscape, as the landscape that exists for the viewer in the physical world, where sightlines are constantly shifting.

I was inspired by the NGS art collection “Under construction” created by Leng Joon Wong. His painting has an immense power to draw viewers into his subject matter through the painted perspective line works. I intended to focus on the art-making processes rather than the final outcome, so we started on-site sketching with pencil and Chinese ink on paper materials as a seeding unit, followed by planting the group's mindscape by working with acrylic paint on canvases. These painted mindscapes had grown organically and become a rhythmic labyrinth to enter and travel through, wherein the viewer experiences his or her own personal associations.

[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

Sewing Happiness: A Series of Fun & Simple Fabric Collage Projects for Learning Great & Living Well.

Project of 2017

“Blossom Colours of Life” is a community art project co-created by Singaporean artist, Tan Haur, with patients of Jurong Community Hospital. Strolling down memory lane with the patients, the artist gathered heart-warming stories of senior participants through simple heartfelt conversations and craft sessions and translated them into a visual journal of 15 colourful fabric collage artworks. The art-making process encourages patients to revisit those nostalgic scenes of yesteryears and reminisce about their favourite food, the simple life and the good old kampong days. Stories were stitched together to form intricate fabric collages of iconic landmarks like the former National Theatre and objects like Tingkat and rotary dial phone – each rekindling a connection between the past and the present. The pattern-rich art pieces adorn the walls of Jurong Community Hospital, bringing to life stories and experiences of our shared heritage and history that would allow patients to relive fond memories and be inspired with hope and optimism.

[ About the Artist ]
Multidisciplinary Singaporean artist, Tan Haur, spent most of his childhood at his grandmother’s dressmaking studio near Boat Quay playing with stacks of fabrics and nitty-gritty sewing tools. Inspired by his mother (a seamstress) and wife (an arts and crafts trainer), Tan incorporates sewing and crafting in his artistic practices. Tan graduated from the Australian National University (College of Arts & Social Sciences) in 2007 and has since worked with various social groups and organizations on collaborative art projects.
More about Tan http://bit.ly/2BovGL0

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

Fabric collage (Tingkat tote bag) workshop

A very successful workshop! All participants had completed their fabric collage within the 2 hours time frame, I am so proud of them. Cheers!   ~Tan Haur (Master of Visual Arts, ANU)

More about Tan: http://bit.ly/2BovGL0

For inquiries regarding textile illustration projects, art workshops, and commercial works please contact Tan Haur directly at:-

Email:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

It would take a while

"It would take a while to develop photos, but it was worth the while."

- Mdm Chan, 70

Mdm Chan recalled how the traditional analog photographic process would usually take some time to develop into negatives and prints. Using caterpillars turning into butterflies as metaphors, she described how the photographic process required a bit of time but was worth the wait.

*Analogue photographic processing or development is the chemical means by which photographic film or paper is treated after photographic exposure to produce a negative or positive image.

Exhibition: Blossom Colours of Life

 (A community art project lead by artist Tan Haur)
 Art Medium: Fabric collage
 Organizer and collector: JurongHealth
 Venue: Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Tower A, level 2, Singapore.


人老了都會記性不好，一般人多認為這是老化的關係，殊不知有可能錯過了就醫的寶貴時機。

 失智症是因為「腦中病理變化」造成認知功能不良，請盡早尋求專業協助與護理。

 這次的社區藝術創作也鼓勵大家一起正面看待身體老化現象與失智症。


#手芸 #手作り #手作控 #療癒手作

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

Fabric collage: Craft space

"I enjoyed decorating and working in my crafts space, just like how cats relax and play at their own pace and time. Life used to move at a much slower pace compared to now."
- Mdm Ho, 94

When Mdm Ho was younger, she made her own clothes with a traditional sewing machine. She would use old newspapers as her dressmaking pattern paper templates.

Exhibition: Blossom Colors of Life
(A community art project lead by artist Tan Haur)
Art medium: Fabric collage
Organizer and collector: JurongHealth
Venue: Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Tower A, level 2, Singapore.


人老了都會記性不好，一般人多認為這是老化的關係，殊不知有可能錯過了就醫的寶貴時機。

失智症是因為「腦中病理變化」造成認知功能不良，請盡早尋求專業協助與護理。

這次的社區藝術創作也鼓勵大家一起正面看待身體老化現象與失智症。


#手芸 #手作り #手作控 #療癒手作

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

Fabric collage: Singapore National Theatre

"There were many international performances here. Some people could not get tickets, so they ran up the hill behind to watch it for free."
- Mr. Surmani, 72

"Many people like to take photos here last time. It was surrounded by beautiful flower gardens and magnificent landscapes."
- Mdm Chan, 70

*Singapore National Theatre: Officially opened on 8 August 1963, this theatre was built to commemorate the attainment of Singapore’s self-government in 1959. It was demolished in 1986 due to structural reasons.

Exhibition: Blossom Colours of Life
(A community art project lead by artist Tan Haur)
Art medium: Fabric collage
Organizer and collector: JurongHealth
Venue: Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Tower A, level 2, Singapore.

人老了都會記性不好，一般人多認為這是老化的關係，殊不知有可能錯過了就醫的寶貴時機。

失智症是因為「腦中病理變化」造成認知功能不良，請盡早尋求專業協助與護理。

這次的社區藝術創作也鼓勵大家一起正面看待身體老化現象與失智症。

#手芸 #手作り #手作控 #療癒手作

[Connection]

Email Tan Haur at:

tanhaur@gmail.com

WhatsApp & SMS:

(+65) 9070 2000

My sewing illustration

Yesterday's memories: National theatre✨😊My sewing illustration✂️❣️

#手芸 #手作り #手作控 #療癒手作 #Singapore