Le Journal

How did you come to make the Monsoon series? Sherman Ong: I was in Hanoi for my artist residency under the Goethe Institut Art Connexions project. I had already started on a visual haiku series, Hanoi Haiku, when this series came to me by chance during a hailstorm one afternoon in Hanoi. On that ...

You work with industrial materials such as Corten steel and aluminium. Is this a purely aesthetic choice? Have you always been working with these materials? Jedd Novatt: When I started out as a sculptor, my options were limited and based predominately on accessibility. I started working with mild ...

Agathe de Bailliencourt is a French artist born in 1974 and currently living in Berlin. Working both in her studio on canvas, paper or linen and also outdoors directly onto urban space, architecture or nature, the artist feeds one medium with the experience of the other in a constant dialogue. ...

What was your first work of art and how did it come about? Adriana Molder: I think my first work of art was a drawing I did of my cat Mimi and her kitten when I was about seven – or eight-years-old. I’ve chosen this drawing because I remember that I had quite a unique … read more

Why is drawing so important to you, as a medium? Qiu Jie: I have used pencil since I was a child when, in China, we did not have enough money to buy more material. I was forced to use what I had. When I started to study art at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, I … read more

Lara Audergon is passionate about contemporary art, an interest that has blossomed since moving to Asia. In 2005, Lara Audergon and her husband Christophe left their native Switzerland to set up Crossinvest (Asia), an independent wealth management company based in Singapore. Since then, they have ...