Charmaine Li (b.1999) is a graduate with a Diploma in Art Teaching and a Degree in BA (Hons) in Fine Art Practice at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. She was one of the selected few who have been chosen to display her work in the Best of Best Graduation Showcase 2020 and was given the Woon Brothers Award. She was also involved in
designing the Fine Arts Graduation Catalogue and received the Dean’s list and Top Graduate Award in her course, Art Teaching in 2019. She also sold a few artworks and one of them, "Identity", was displayed at the glass panel in Ngee Ann Kongsi Gallery. In 2018, Charmaine was given the opportunity to be the facilitator in Raffles Girls Primary School to conduct a Watercolour workshop. She also took part in the "East Meets West" exhibitionheld at On Air Gallery in 2017, during the Xiamen Overseas Immersion Programme.
BIOGRAPHY
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my artistic practice, I am intrigued by the organic, biomorphic forms and I focus on creating works based on ephemerality, people and the things around me. Throughout my practice, I experiment with mediums that allow me to obtain concave and spherical forms. Aesthetically, I gravitate towards forms that are spontaneous, textural and organic. I am a very hands-on sculptor as a major element of my work is the process of making. By exploring and developing the form through touch, I am able to understand the material better and rework it to form something new. To me, each work is like a discovery since I do not know what the outcome will be.
Recently, she explores videography as a means to document her performances as a way to capture our immersion in time and place, and relating it to her
own personal narrative.