Contemporary Art is gaining popularity with astute collectors and a new generation of art lovers. With the recent auction records of Asian art stars particularly from China and India, the attention to this new asset class is even more pronounced.

What is Contemporary Art? Is this a new art movement or just a fad? When and where did it start?

This talk introduces Contemporary Art and how the works of some artists influence the art world through the use of new media, ideas and techniques.

Joan Yap

About Joan Yap

Joan Yap is a retired corporate executive and had worked in various positions in Trustcopy, Brokat Technologies, Reuters, Union Bank of Switzerland and Olivetti in the past 25 years. She holds a MBA degree from the University of Birmingham.

Since her retirement, she has been involved actively in the arts. She wrote stories such as, The Nanyang Artists of Singapore and The Nyona Kebaya for the Friends of the Museum and contemporary art features for lifestyle magazines. She is also a trained docent for the Singapore Tyler Print Institute and has guided art tours for the past two years.

At the start of 2007, Joan embarked on a project to create an online space www.marpinsol.com for local artists to showcase and sell their works and for collectors to display their paintings in a secondary market. She currently gives talks and organizes discussion groups to promote art appreciation in Singapore.