Jamie Teo

Born 1996
Hometown Singapore
Lives and works Singapore

About the artist
Drawn by the peculiar sensation of not being able to focus on any particular area within the surface of colours in her abstract works, Jamie Teo invites viewers to experience a different approach to seeing by meticulously blending colours to both create and investigate its movement and ambiguous outcomes. Her paintings embody a sense of tension that lingers between the stillness and phenomenal movement where colours begin to change the longer you look at them. Areas of unique, impulsive textured brushstrokes are built up from the rigid process of pushing thick accumulated paint back and forth. This juxtaposition from the smooth and flat gradient surface captures fleeting moments where colours merge and break apart from each other within an ever-changing field of stillness, evoking a visual interaction between the viewer and the work, seeing and experiencing an intangible in-between.

Media

Watch the porters after dark video

Education
2013 – 2016
Diploma in Fine Arts – Painting
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore

2016 – 2018
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Fine Arts
LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
The McNally School of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University of London

Awards & Achievements
2018
37th UOB Painting of the Year Singapore, Emerging Artist Category,
Silver Award

2016
The LASALLE Bursary (BA)

2016
The Winston Oh Travel Award

2015
The LASALLE Bursary (Diploma)

2015
CDC/CCC Arts Institution Bursary

Selected Projects
2022
Causal Curiosity, Solo exhibition by Jamie Teo, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2021
Arts in Your Neighbourhood 2021, National Arts Council, Pasir Ris, Singapore
S.E.A. Focus Curated: Hyper – Horizon, 39 Keppel Road, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore

2020
Offline Colour, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore

2019
Shifting Stillness, Solo exhibition by Jamie Teo, UOB Art Gallery, Singapore
Art Expo Malaysia 2019, Art Porters Gallery, MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Art Jakarta, Art Porters Gallery, Jakarta Convention Centre Senayan Indonesia.
S.E.A. Focus, Art Porters Gallery, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.

2018
2018 UOB Painting of the Year Regional Winnings’ Showcase, UOB Art Gallery, UOB Plaza 1, Singapore.
KAC, Katara Art Center, Katara Cultural Village Building 5, Doha, Qatar.
Art Expo Malaysia 2018, Art Porters Gallery, MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre (MECC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The LASALLE Show 2018, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore.
A Dive, Splendid!, LASALLE College of the Arts, Winstedt Campus, Singapore.
Melange, LASALLE College of the Arts, Project Space, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore.

2017
Between; +Project, Gallery Tomo, Kyoto, Japan.

2016
The Measure of Things, The Winston Oh Travel Award, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
Between Walls, The LASALLE Show 2016, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
Gas and Dust: The Manufactured Space, LASALLE College of the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore
The Pondok, Winstedt Campus, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore