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anGie seah, BA
Artist
We must harness art to foster empathy, build resilience, and reduce stigma—identifying resources and gaps through community-based interventions that support aging, cognitive health and inclusion.
Current Work
anGie is a multi-disciplinary artist with over two decades of socially engaged practice, integrating visual arts, sound, and performance to explore well-being, ageing, and emotional labour through transformative encounters shaped by lived experiences.
Personal Hero
My father
Words of Strength
Uplifting others, inspiring hope, bridging communities, nurturing empathy, leading with heart
Vision
anGie believes we need to harness art to foster empathy, build resilience, and reduce stigma by identifying strengths, resources, and gaps that can be addressed through creative, community-based interventions that support aging, cognitive well-being, and social inclusion.
Strategy
anGie has collaborated with therapists in active aging centres, integrated creative activities into rehabilitation and led art interventions for dementia and stroke patients, developing toolkits to enhance cognitive engagement through art.
Impact
anGie aims to promote artistic interventions that support vulnerable populations, advocate for those most in need of health equity, and highlight the importance of affirming daily life through the transformative act of art-making.
Motivation
With a rapidly ageing population in Singapore, anGie aims to implement arts-based interventions in healthcare, focusing on people with dementia and their caregivers—demonstrating art's potential as a psychosocial tool to foster care and well-being.
Education & Experience
anGie is a Singaporean artist whose multi-disciplinary practices span drawing, installation, performance, sculpture, and video to respond to the human condition in relation to evolving social environments. Her penchant for immersive community-making flows from the ease with which she engages across different demographics, especially to give voice to and shape space for the vulnerable and the misunderstood, thus marking her art-making as a distinctive and distinguished exemplar of social practice in Southeast Asia and beyond.
anGie’s sustained artistic research, by articulating valences of emotional labour through choreographic language, earned her various accolades at home and abroad over the past two decades: from the National Arts Council of Singapore Scholarship that enabled her studies in fine arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2000 to the Atlantic Fellowship that brings her to Trinity College Dublin in 2025-2026 to explore equity in brain health--alongside exhibitions, artist residences, and festival presentations in Australia (Asialink / VCA), France (Palais de Tokyo, MAC Lyon, CITE Des Arts), Germany (ZKM Centre for New Media, Goethe Institute Berlin), and Japan (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum)—anGie continues to conceive and create projects that connect and compel people towards communal understanding and personal transformation.
Awards & Honors
Videos
Vimeo video playlist—anGie seah
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