Rapport: Eight Artists from Singapore and Australia

About the exhibition
The result of increasingly close cultural ties between Australia and Singapore, Rapport was a joint curatorial initiative led by Natalie King (then Monash University Gallery) and Tay Swee Lin (Singapore Art Museum). This unique collaborative project featured recent works by eight early-career Australian and Singaporean artists working across diverse media, including photography, found objects, installation and sculpture.

The exhibited works explored personal themes such as childhood, intimate relationships and spirituality—each informed by the artist’s cultural background. Overall, the exhibition was tied together by three key thematic strands: synthetic materials (Hany Armanious, Christopher Langton, Matthew Ngui), memory (Carolyn Eskdale, Amanda Heng, Nicola Loder), and ephemerality (Salleh Japar, Baet Yeok Kuan).

Acknowledgements
This exhibition was a collaborative cultural project between the Singapore Art Museum, National Arts Council, Singapore, Monash University Gallery and the Asialink Centre, Melbourne, Australia.

The exhibition was supported by the International Cultural Relations Branch of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Visual Arts/Craft Board of the Australia Council, Arts Victoria through the Victorian Government’s Art's 21 Policy and Community Support Fund, Monash International, and Singapore Airlines. The Gordon Darling Foundation kindly sponsored a related program of events in Melbourne.

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^{Image: Matthew Ngui, Food, Toys and Sculpture 1996 (detail with fish toys and still from Eat Drink Man Woman, directed by Ang Lee), time-based installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Image scans by The Scan Shop}