Background
Jason Lim was born in 1966 in Singapore.
2018
1 McNally St, Singapore 187940
Jason Lim, Duet with light, 9 February 2018, performance, Encounter under the banyan, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts. Photo: Weizhong Deng.
2018
Photos by Ken Cheong.
2018
1 McNally St, Singapore 187940
Jason Lim, Under the shadow of the banyan tree, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, LASALLE College of the Arts, 2018, performance. Photo by Sufian Samsiyar.
Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, Kings Cross, London N1C 4AA, United Kingdom
Jason Lim studied at Central St Martins College of Art & Design, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (with honors).
124 La Trobe St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
Jason Lim attained his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2003.
Jason Lim during his performance.
Jason Lim was born in 1966 in Singapore.
Jason Lim studied at Central St Martins College of Art & Design, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (with honors). Later, he attained his Master of Fine Arts Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2003.
Jason Lim is regarded as Singapore’s next master ceramist. His repertoire of works encompasses ceramics, photography, video art, installation art and performance art.
Jason’s first show was in Canterbury, United Kingdom in 1992. He has since exhibited across the globe in Australia, Germany, India, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Thailand and the Netherlands.
As a ceramist, Jason's works have been collected and commissioned by various public museums, art institutions, corporate companies and private collections both locally and internationally.
In addition, as a performance artist, Jason has been invited to present performances in many international performance festivals in more than 20 countries. In 2007, he presented his work, Walking Sticks, at the 4th World Ceramics Biennale in Korea winning the Juror’s Prize. In the same year, he presented Just Dharma and Light Weight at the Singapore Pavilion in the 52nd Venice Biennale. In 2010, he was invited as a guest artist to join performance art collective, Black Market International, in their 25th Anniversary celebration in a tour of Poland, Germany and Switzerland.
Jason Lim has also organised and created various platforms for alternative art practitioners to meet and collaborate. He was co-Artistic Director and Artistic Director of Future of Imagination editions 2, 5, 7, and 8, an international performance art event held in Singapore in 2004, 2008, 2011 and 2012 respectively.
Jason Lim currently lives and works in Singapore.
Beringin 2
2017Sketches for Under Shadow of the Banyan Tree 2
2016Drawings 5
2017Stacked (Grey)
2013Under the Shadow of the Banyan Tree
2017Beringin Kecil 2
2017Landscape Series 6
2015Works from The garden: Lining
2010Works From The Garden: Inside/outside
2010Works From The Garden: Split 1
2010Works From The Garden: Split 2
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2014Works from The garden: Untitled
2010Under The Shadow Of The Banyan Tree 3
2018Balancing The World
2016Bukit Musing
2013Landscape Studies 2
2013A Walk Through The Garden
2010Dharmas
2009Still Life
2008Rough Cuts
2007River
2006Are You Afraid Of Ceramics and Stuff Like That
2005Porcelain Work
2001Porcelain Work
2001Porcelain Work
2001Porcelain Work
2001
Quotations:
"Evidence of my interest in the vessel is seen in the forms of my work. My intention is to produce a series of ‘wrong sort’ of objects - ‘wrong’ because culturally they have a different feel from more traditional works."
"My pieces are created for the individual. They are neither objects that I make for myself nor things I devise for a collaborative audience such as the ‘public’. The relationship between the objects and the viewer may be intimate but they do not address any specific individual."
"Placing the works on a horizontal plane has to do with wanting them to look like ordinary everyday things. The combination of size, behaviour, method of making and material encourage the viewer to consider them as objects they may have encountered during everyday life."
"My ideas are in a constant flux. I change the identity of things, and make many layers of meaning. I find it important to capture visual tendencies that influence and stimulate the viewer’s perception and imagination. In this way, I want my work to provide visual questions instead of answers."