▶︎EDGE Playground

Rooted in the visual language of 1950s tape technology, the ▶︎ icon symbolises motion, activation, and the act of pressing “play.” Its off-kilter form subtly shapes an ‘A’, moving and balancing as it plays — a visual metaphor for experimentation, risk-taking, and the dynamic nature of artistic inquiry. ▶︎EDGE Playground draws from this symbolism to position art education as an ongoing process of testing, questioning, and becoming — of playing with ideas, materials, and ways of seeing.

Curated by Deborah Lim — whose curatorial practice includes major exhibitions such as Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses at ArtScience Museum — the exhibition is conceived as a living, participatory space rather than a static display of outcomes. ▶︎EDGE Playground foregrounds the often unseen layers of thinking, making, and reflection that underpin meaningful art practice. Here, play is understood not as a preliminary stage, but as a rigorous mode of inquiry that enables educators to explore ideas with curiosity, openness, and intention.

Under the guidance of artist-mentors Genevieve Leong, Isabella Ong, and Daniel Chong, participating educators engage in art-making through play, embracing experimentation, material exploration, and dialogue. The exhibition brings together works, process documentation, and reflective traces from teacher-artists, revealing how artistic identities are shaped and reshaped through practice.

Visitors will encounter fragments, trials, questions, and moments of pause — invitations into the rhythms of the artists’ creative journeys. ▶︎EDGE Playground celebrates authentic artistic inquiry, where art education and artistic practice intersect, and invites audiences to reconsider what it means to learn, teach, and make through play.