Tan Yong Yao

Born in Johor in 1997 and graduated from the fine art department of Dasein Academy of Art, Kuala Lumpur recently, Yong Yao's realistic oil painting subject matter touches the issue of life and death, and human living conditions.

Education
2016 - 2019: Diploma in Fine Art, Dasein Academy of Art, Kuala Lumpur.
2010 - 2015, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Impian Emas, Johor.

Artist Statement
My paintings explore the subject mattter of life and death that cannot be divorced from our existence. Life and the dead are un-separated and they like both sides of a coin.

When I was a child, ghost stories, horror movies and haunted houses in amusement parks fascinated me. Those stories and scenes keep reappearing in my mind from time to time and they lead me into all sorts of imagination that I hope to reveal in my work..

Sometimes the outcome of the works depict our human nature. Where are we heading after death? Is there an incarnation process going on? I enjoy using skeletons as a metaphor of life after death or the dead while living.

Lee Wee Meng

Born in Johor in 1996 and graduated from the fine art department of Dasein Academy of Art in 2019, Wee Meng has a passion in painting and determines to build a career in the field of fine art. He plans to produce a series of paintings based on social subject matters and take part regularly in exhibitions and compeitions.

Education
Sept 2016 - Apr 2019: Diploma in Fine Art, Dasein Academy of Art, Kuala Lumpur.
Jan 2009 - Dec 2015, UEC, Kluang Chong Hwa High School, Johor.

Artist Statement
Wee Meng's series of paintings explore his experiences on social and myths, stereo- types social phenomenal that people may or may not call into question is often his subject matters. He tends to simplify the figures in his paintings to generate a universal human being without discriminating gender, race, religious and cultural backgrounds and so on. Wee Ming likes to combine realistic finishings with dbrushstroke on his canvases to reveal what is hidden beneath the surface of the real.