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Artist Statement
"I adore the chance encounter and surprise of the found, unfamiliar and strange. I am fascinated with things that are seemingly out of place yet integrated into a larger environment, akin to candy-frosted rocks bordering a sidewalk. Basking in the resonance of the everyday, I appreciate the brevity, humour, and nostalgia in thingly representations.
My art practice involves a close study and response to situations in my daily environments. My initial delight and curiosity in the quotidian is often captured with photographs or embodied in objects that I collect. These allusions are then metamorphosed through paint, assorted mediums, and modes of installation; in attempt to extrapolate the essence, significance, and euphoric in the mundane. I create artifacts and occurrences that mirror diverse structures and quirks to which selves, cultures and histories operate; and also transcend." |
Biography
Adeleine Daysor is an artist, educator and cultural researcher invested in the everyday and notions of travel. She is intrigued by the make of myths, the thingness of things, and the effects of the uncanny. Adeleine’s practice investigates the visual palette of her home, Singapore; as well as personal and shared phenomena experienced though natural, man-made, and virtual landscapes. She is versatile in a range of media and finds a special affinity with paints, objects, and their site-responsive installations. Adeleine participates in local arts initiatives as well as exhibits internationally.
Adeleine is creative director of Arts Garden Club (Studio) and Fuchsia -- artists’ collaboratives that mediate education and community through aesthetic immersions. She teaches Studio Practice and Humanities in various capacities and environments; encompassing higher education, social work, and customised programmes for youths, adults, and seniors. She is also an educator with Lasalle College of the Arts, Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore.
Adeleine believes in challenging and expanding visual scopes, skill sets, and criticality; addressing essential issues, manifesting innovative ideas, and co-creating with others in hope to enliven minds, environments, and daily lives: everyone should have access to and benefit from the arts as forms of expression, appreciation, and overall wellness.
Adeleine received her BA (Hons) Fine Art from The Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham, UK. Furthering her studies in San Francisco, USA, Adeleine graduated from the California College of the Arts with an MFA in Drawing and Painting and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies.
Adeleine is creative director of Arts Garden Club (Studio) and Fuchsia -- artists’ collaboratives that mediate education and community through aesthetic immersions. She teaches Studio Practice and Humanities in various capacities and environments; encompassing higher education, social work, and customised programmes for youths, adults, and seniors. She is also an educator with Lasalle College of the Arts, Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore.
Adeleine believes in challenging and expanding visual scopes, skill sets, and criticality; addressing essential issues, manifesting innovative ideas, and co-creating with others in hope to enliven minds, environments, and daily lives: everyone should have access to and benefit from the arts as forms of expression, appreciation, and overall wellness.
Adeleine received her BA (Hons) Fine Art from The Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham, UK. Furthering her studies in San Francisco, USA, Adeleine graduated from the California College of the Arts with an MFA in Drawing and Painting and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies.