Actually I have a new idea for my blog and my website but there’s so much work done here that I can’t imagine revamping. But how can I not revamp my website after 10 years or so.
Anyway I want to archive my about page. Artist statement or Whatever cha ma call it.
here’s the one I’m going to remove.
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Lee Ju-Lyn (李裕鈴) is always looking for better ways to live and think about life and is especially interested in the answers that may lie in the arts. In her quest, she went to art school and relished the learning process. She now hypothesises that both art and learning provide existential relief, and they may work even better when combined. Studying and making art is part of her ongoing research process.
Her works are consistently conceptually concerned with things like: meaning and purpose, time and transience, choice and freedom, interrelatedness, self and cultural identity, self improvement/cultivation, studying, literati aspirations, existential concerns, art and life.
Formally, her works are varied, ranging from writing, painting, installations, and the performative, as she enjoys blurring definitive boundaries, since these are also unclear between art and life. She is especially fond of combining literary and visual art. She tries to focus on Chinese ink arts as traditionally, its conceptual concerns are relevant to many of hers.
Her Asian-grunge-romantic-indie style might be developed from how she most enjoyed the works by Kurt Vonnegut, the Pixies, Albert Camus, Blur, Lin Yutang, Su Shi, Laozi,and Wu Bai, since earlier years. She is born in the 80s and is a Chinese Singaporean. She had initially studied Psychology and worked in the public service, before recently finishing a Fine Art diploma and a Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices Masters’ programme. She is currently actively self-studying and is reflecting on the word “teleological” that she picked up today.
Her visual works have been presented at the National Gallery Singapore, Ngee Ann Cultural Centre, Lim Hak Tai Gallery. She has also authored and published several fiction and non-fiction titles, including Notions, an indie collective art-zine. She had received the Woon Brother Art Prize, and NAC Arts Creation Grant, for her visual and literary efforts, respectively.
Meekfreak is an alias she goes by… actually since her IRC/ICQ days.
Last updated: 22 November 2019 and then 7 Dec.