ART SG

Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world's most accomplished contemporary photographers. In 2024 Saatchi Gallery, London, staged a major retrospective, BURTYNSKY: EXTRACTION / ABSTRACTION, the largest exhibition ever mounted in Edward Burtynsky's 40+ year career, supported by a series of film screenings of The Anthropocene Trilogy at BFI, London, and an immersive experience of In the Wake of Progress at Outernet, London. The acclaimed exhibition then commenced touring to M9 - Museum of the 20th Century, Mestre and The Seoul Museum of History in November 2025. In summer 2025, The Great Acceleration, the first solo institutional exhibition of Edward Burtynsky's work was presented at The International Center of Photography.

Burtynsky's photographs are included in the collections of over 80 major museums around the world. Major (touring) exhibitions include Anthropocene (2018); Water (2013) organised by the New Orleans Museum of Art & Contemporary Art Center, Louisiana; Oil (2009) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; China (2005 five-year tour); and Manufactured Landscapes (2003) at the National Gallery of Canada. Burtynsky's distinctions include the inaugural TED Prize in 2005, which he shared with Bono and Robert Fischell; in 2006, he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Canada; the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts; the Outreach Award at the Rencontres d'Arles; the Roloff Beny Book award; and the 2018 Photo London Master of Photography Award.

Ken Currie studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1978 to 1983 and rose to prominence within a generation of painters known as the ‘New Glasgow Boys’ in the 1980s. He is renowned for his unsettling portrayal of the human figure, with the artist’s rich, luminous paintings depicting narratives on mysterious rites, rituals, and quasi-medical practices, offering a meditation on humanity and violence in its many guises.

Ken Currie has exhibited widely internationally, including a 2013 solo exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland, which also commissioned his painting Three Oncologists, 2002. Currie’s work is held in major public collections including Tate, London; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; New York Public Library; Imperial War Museum, London; Campbelltown Arts Centre, New South Wales; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; and the British Council, London.

Ishbel Myerscough is recognised for her highly detailed and meticulously observed portrayal of her subject matter, which over the past three decades has primarily included herself, her close friend and fellow artist Chantal Joffe, and their families. Myerscough combines a focused study of youth and coming-of-age with adult experiences of parenthood, desire and bereavement, evoking the complex cycle of human experience.

Myerscough studied at Glasgow and the Slade Schools of Art, and works in London. In 1995 she won the National Portrait Gallery's annual BP Portrait Award competition and as a result was commissioned to paint Helen Mirren's portrait for the collection and subsequently Sir Willard White. Her portrait Two Girls (1991), was displayed in the exhibition Self at the Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK in 2015 and at the National Portrait Gallery, London, until November 2016. Her work was presented in a joint display Friendship Portraits: Chantal Joffe and Ishbel Myerscough at the National Portrait Gallery in 2015, capturing their very particular artistic collaboration, and was included in the exhibitions Only Connect, Royal Academy of Arts, Keeper's House, London, 2017; Cranach: Artist and Innovator, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 2020; Real Families, Fitzwilliam Muesum, Cambridge, 2023; Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery touring exhibition curated by Hettie Judah, 2024, and Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists, Pallant House, Chichester, 2025.

In 2016, Raffaella was the first registered blind student to graduate from Kingston University in the Visual Arts, with a First-Class Honours degree, and was awarded the NatWest Entrepreneurship Funding Prize in 2019 for her bespoke sensory fashion label.  In 2025 and 2021, Raffaella's work was selected for the Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition, coordinated by Farshid Moussavi RA and Yinka Shonibare, respectively. In 2023, her solo exhibition, Hushed Impressions, was shown at Orleans House Gallery. She completed a residency at the Tracey Emin Artist Residency (TEAR) in 2023/4 and was selected by Dame Tracey Emin for Flowers Gallery's 2024 Artist of the Day series, presenting a one-day solo exhibition as part of the programme's 25th edition. In 2025 Bianca Raffaella was awarded Overall Winner of the Women in Art Prize, and was also the recipient of Women in Art's Printing Prize. 

Tai Shan Schierenberg has an acclaimed practice featuring portraiture and landscape alongside reflective works exploring memory, identity and belonging.

Schierenberg was born in England to a German father who was a painter and a Malaysian-Chinese mother, growing up between London, Malaysia and the Black Forest. He studied at St Martin's School of Art from 1981 to 1985, continuing at the Slade School of Art through 1985-1987. In 1989, Schierenberg won the prestigious Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery.

Schierenberg's work is in public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London; Tate, London; Cambridge University; Merton College, Oxford; The Royal Society, London; The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University, Belfast; BBC England; Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; The Ruth Borchard Collection, London; and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.

Jakkai Siributr is one of Southeast Asia's leading contemporary artists, working primarily in the textile medium. He is known for his intricately handmade tapestries, quilts and installations, which convey powerful responses to contemporary and historical societal issues in Thailand.

He has exhibited widely, with notable recent exhibitions including the opening exhibition of the FENIX Museum, the Netherlands (2025); London Design Festival at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2025); Setouchi Triennale, Japan (2025); There's no Place, the latest iteration of this long-term project at Canal Projects (2026); The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2024); the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024) in the Thailand Pavilion; The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, presented by the Bangkok Art Biennale as an Official Collateral Event at the Venice Biennale (2024).