Member Directory
Athiyah is an award-winning journalist with a passion for telling stories about marginalised communities around the world. She moved from Choa Chu Kang to Washington D.C. in 2016. She spent three years writing about local homelessness and housing issues for Street Sense Media, a D.C.-based nonprofit news outlet. She won a 2024 Society of Professional Journalists' award for beat reporting. She graduated with a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Maryland in 2020, and her stories have appeared on PBS NewsHour and Voice of America. She's back home and is now a communications executive for AWARE, the leading women’s rights and gender equality group in Singapore. In her free time, she would love to keep shining spotlights on artists making an impact in our local art scene for Plural Art Magazine.
Shawn is an architectural designer based in Singapore and recently received his Master's in Architecture in 2024. He is also passionate about diverse art and design realms, from graphic design and photography to filming and lifestyle pursuits. Shawn is the sole curator of narrativeforms (@narrativeforms on Instagram), a multi-disciplinary studio culminating his passions that explores illustrations, self-published zines, and curated objects.
Sam is an aspiring museum professional and potter (@sam.rin.ceramics on Instagram) interested in Southeast Asian art histories, nationalisms and decolonisation. Her MA at Kyushu University will look into Japanese export porcelain intended for the Southeast Asian market.
Jord Earving Gadingan thrives in the provinces and their communities as a development worker and biodiversity advocate. In between, he writes. Art, nature, and governance are commensal to his work.
Amirahvelda Priyono (or Velda) is an emerging art writer and researcher, focusing on Southeast Asia, war, and politics through photography. She is also interested in intergenerational perspectives on art history. She holds a BA in French Linguistics and an MA in Asian Art Histories in Indonesia and Singapore.
Dr. Yanyun Chen (Singapore) is a visual artist, researcher, and professor. She received the prestigious Singapore National Arts Council Young Artist Award (2020) and ArtOutreach IMPART Visual Artist Award (2019). She curated "Collecting Bodies: A Short Story about art and nudities in Asia" (2022) and authored "Tracing Etymology: Origin and Time; Monsters and Demons" (2015). Chen graduated from the European Graduate School Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought PhD programme (2018) and is a Professor of the Practice in Drawing and Painting at Tufts University School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA.
Victoria Hertel Velasco is a German-Venezuelan sensory installation artist based in Singapore. In her work, she constructs interactions between diverse material realms to expand our sense of kinship with our surroundings. Through her writing, she reflects on deliberate gestures of impact and how these translate into forms of care for our shared existence. She holds a BFA from the University of Barcelona and an MA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, in partnership with Goldsmiths, University of London.
