Artists • Gallery • Batik Painting Workshop in Singapore
We opened our studios for the public as part of the Goodman Arts Centre open house done annually. Members of the public thoroughly enjoyed our display of talents. Our booths included caricature and henna body art painting by our home-grown artists and family batik painting sessions. We were also selling our batik art materials for... Continue Reading →
Community Batik is a communal art activity innovated by Singaporean artist Kamal Dollah in 2009 as a solution for engaging the public in a collective piece of art that also educates about the traditional art of batik. Batik originated in Java, Indonesia. It is utilised across the Malay world becoming an integral South East Asian cultural heritage. The term 'Community Batik' was coined... Continue Reading →
Our workshop continues with the students making things from using the batik paintings they design. One of the project we do with the students there was to make stuff toys, something which they were very happy to bring back home when the work had completed. We did a group project too with batik.
We conducted a 3hr batik painting workshop for the P5 boys in St Stephen's School. These boys had just completed their mid-year exams and were delighted to relax and learned the art form as they look forward to the holidays. The boys were mainly from the malay language class and to learn batik, they found... Continue Reading →
It's the beginning of the academic term for ITE students from all over Singapore that gathered at ITE Macpherson campus where they had a chance to experience various art activities after the address by their school administration. It was a festive mood where three batches of 230 students came to work on their community batik... Continue Reading →
This book became a best seller in Singapore instantaneously and is already in the 3rd print if I'm not mistaken. I'd like to think its because of the cover rather than the juicy real-life account of an air stewardess. I was approached by the author as I am considered an expert at batik. She wanted... Continue Reading →
As part of the September school holiday programme, we were at Alexandra HortPark for the weekend to conduct batik demonstration for visitors who came and sign up for it. The visitors who were mostly families had a fun time enjoying the batik painting experience with their children. At the end of the session, they got... Continue Reading →
Unity Secondary School was our next engagement for this year second semester. Its the same batch of students from last year that we taught and this time around they get to explore and experiment further. This year, the students were given a few themes ,like nature and sea creatures, by their art teacher to research... Continue Reading →
Pekalongan is a small city on the northern coast of central Java. Five hours by train from Jakarta, it is also known to Indonesians as the City of Batik. Batik is synonymous with Indonesia and it can generally be categorised into two types. Batik Keraton with traditional royal motifs from inland area such as Yogyakarta... Continue Reading →
