Sullivan+Strumpf is thrilled to present a group exhibition Shapeshifters at Appetite, bringing together five artists from Australia and Singapore.

A collaboration between Appetite and Sullivan+Strumpf for Singapore Art Week, Shapeshifters brings together a selection of works from that centre on notions of fluidity and hybridity. Nudging the porous boundaries between artistic mediums, form, and function, these works both converse with and shift the spaces they engage with.

Presenting works across different mediums and practices, this dynamic exhibition will amplify a cross-cultural dialogue between Australia and Singapore and will become a celebration of diverse modes of creative expression.

Open Tuesday - Saturday, 6pm – late or by appointment
72A Amoy St, Singapore

To make an appointment to view the exhibition, please call +65 9751 5300 or email info@appetitesg.com or siuli@appetitesg.com

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body

Lives and works between Sydney and Broughton, NSW
Born 1972, Sydney

Glenn Barkley is an artist, writer, curator and gardener based in Sydney and Berry, NSW, Australia. His work operates in the space between these interests drawing upon the history of ceramics, popular song, the garden and conversations about art and the internet.

Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Born 1980

Yvette Coppersmith is a painter specialising in both portraiture and abstraction. While her painting practice originally formed through portraiture in the realist tradition, over the last 20 years her visual language has developed and evolved to include still life and abstraction, with an interest in the interplay between these genres and the figure.

Lives and works in Gadigal land/Sydney, Australia
Born 1973

Michael Lindeman shines a light on the mechanics of the contemporary art world. Relying on humour as a liberating and disarming tool, he examines relations surrounding class, taste, and power. Lindeman’s work often takes form as large-scale text paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Drifting between stream of consciousness writing and structured research-based content, he aims for a type of wry institutional critique.

Lives and works in Singapore
Born 1987

Tiffany Loy is an emerging Singaporean textile artist whose practice is defined by both experimental technique and material complexity. Trained in industrial design in Singapore and textile-weaving in Kyoto, Loy employs an investigative approach to weaving, to materiality and to art-making more broadly. Loy’s practice explores relationships between fundamental elements such as colour, structure, and the invisible force in weaving – tension. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, with an MA in Textiles in 2020, specialising in weaving, and was a recipient of the DesignSingapore Scholarship.

Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
Born 1971, Melbourne, Australia

Lara Merrett’s practice interrogates the relationship between painting and its surrounding architecture with site-specific work that invites us to enter and navigate its folds. Merrett’s larger scale commissioned work has involved public participation through touch, movement, cuttings, and its relationship to the built environment. Her simultaneous agility, amplification and softening of the rigid confines of canvas and gallery, both complicate and honor painterly traditions.

Lives and works in Sydney, Australia
Born 1988, Colombo Sri-Lanka

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Sri-Lankan born, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran is a contemporary artist. He is interested in global histories and languages of figurative representation and their intersections with issues relating to the politics of idolatry, the monument, gender, race and religiosity. He has specific interests in South Asian forms and imagery. While he is best known for his inventive and somewhat unorthodox approach to ceramic media, his material vernacular is broad. He has worked imaginatively with a range of sculptural materials including bronze, concrete, neon, LED and fibreglass.