foreword: For 43 years, the Angkatan Pelukis Aneka
Daya (also known as the Association of Artists of Various
Resources - Apad) has relentlessly given immense support and
encouragement to our local artists. As one of our prominent
visual arts groups, Apad has continually added zest and
colour to the art scene in Singapore.
Your Association must be commended for organizing many art courses on weekends, which offer many young children a meaningful pursuit during their free time. At the same time through your efforts we are building up a pool of talented and artistic people.
This exhibition of collective works is delightfully exemplary, as it provides artists with the opportunity to present themselves to the public through the presentation of their latest and finest works. For the fellow artists and art enthusiasts, it is an occasion where they can meet, interact and exchange ideas.
I congratulate the participating artists who have been inspired and who in turn attempt to touch and inspire us all with their demiurgic creations. I extend my best wishes to Apad for the success of the exhibition and hope your wish to be able to nurture and yield successful artists of high competency and academic practice will be fruitfully achieved.
Mr Zainudin Nordin
Member of Parliament
Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
“Culture serves to protect society. Spiritual creations, traditions, conventions, and institutions are but ways and means of social organization. Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art all have their place in the struggle to preserve society.”
Through this annual event, Apad
presents its 32nd effort at putting forth in unison,
diverse forms of artwork both by renowned and
accomplished members along with its newly appointed
ones. The show is also designed for the association to
share with members of the public and the Singapore arts
community, the development and progress of its
members’ active engagement in artistic thought and
creative processes relevant to Singapore’s post
modern socioeconomic and cultural context though they
vary in tone, form, medium and content. Such sound
opportunity serves as a valuable artistic platform for
the association to engage publicly its core mission
statement of integrating new talent with innovative
practices and sound academic studies into the existing
association membership stream.
Tracing its functional and aesthetics contributions to the Singapore arts scene since its inception in 1962, Apad has continued to act as a creative vehicle that develops and nurtures both emerging and young talents through its communal artistic sharing activities for its members. The exhibition also includes selected works by reputable invited artists with the hope that such functional engagements will elevate the exhibition profile further. And with this active artistic engagement, Apad and its members hope to be able to nurture and yield artists of high competency and sound academic practice into the Singapore arts community mainstream and eventually to support Singapore’s primary aspiration of becoming the next Renaissance city in the East. This exhibition is just part of the association’s lifelong contribution to the community and the country.
Maznah Ahmad
Apad Member and Exhibition Representative
November 2005
Your Association must be commended for organizing many art courses on weekends, which offer many young children a meaningful pursuit during their free time. At the same time through your efforts we are building up a pool of talented and artistic people.
This exhibition of collective works is delightfully exemplary, as it provides artists with the opportunity to present themselves to the public through the presentation of their latest and finest works. For the fellow artists and art enthusiasts, it is an occasion where they can meet, interact and exchange ideas.
I congratulate the participating artists who have been inspired and who in turn attempt to touch and inspire us all with their demiurgic creations. I extend my best wishes to Apad for the success of the exhibition and hope your wish to be able to nurture and yield successful artists of high competency and academic practice will be fruitfully achieved.
Mr Zainudin Nordin
Member of Parliament
Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC
“Culture serves to protect society. Spiritual creations, traditions, conventions, and institutions are but ways and means of social organization. Religion, Philosophy, Science and Art all have their place in the struggle to preserve society.”
Sociology of Art (1958) by Arnold Hauser,
the great European art critic and sociologist
Through this annual event, Apad
presents its 32nd effort at putting forth in unison,
diverse forms of artwork both by renowned and
accomplished members along with its newly appointed
ones. The show is also designed for the association to
share with members of the public and the Singapore arts
community, the development and progress of its
members’ active engagement in artistic thought and
creative processes relevant to Singapore’s post
modern socioeconomic and cultural context though they
vary in tone, form, medium and content. Such sound
opportunity serves as a valuable artistic platform for
the association to engage publicly its core mission
statement of integrating new talent with innovative
practices and sound academic studies into the existing
association membership stream.
Tracing its functional and aesthetics contributions to the Singapore arts scene since its inception in 1962, Apad has continued to act as a creative vehicle that develops and nurtures both emerging and young talents through its communal artistic sharing activities for its members. The exhibition also includes selected works by reputable invited artists with the hope that such functional engagements will elevate the exhibition profile further. And with this active artistic engagement, Apad and its members hope to be able to nurture and yield artists of high competency and sound academic practice into the Singapore arts community mainstream and eventually to support Singapore’s primary aspiration of becoming the next Renaissance city in the East. This exhibition is just part of the association’s lifelong contribution to the community and the country.
Maznah Ahmad
Apad Member and Exhibition Representative
November 2005