Services
HOW WE GO ABOUT IT
Creative Vision, Creative Resource.
Sometimes you just need somebody to bring it all together. You have a creative goal, a cultural goal, a business goal…maybe a diplomatic goal. You’d like to have an opportunity where you can realise a common vision of bringing communities together within an accessible, uniquely creative and intellectually stimulating programme. We aim to help you.
Whether supporting individual artists, private companies or national and not-for-profit cultural agencies, we will apply an inquiring mind to the project at hand, and thoroughly discuss objectives, budgets and resources. We then tap into our network of talents to bring together the right team to deliver project goals.
Our contribution of talent from the film, arts and cultural sectors is where we differ from most project management offerings. We take an enterprising approach to cultural bridging projects, as we believe that boldness of vision combined with initiative is an important means to bringing diversity, quality and cutting-edge thinking to the table: we set high creative, intellectual and technical standards for the cultural projects we develop. Collaborative creatures by nature, we believe in constantly growing our networks and capabilities to source talent on all fronts to provide innovative and engaging cultural content - through a range of creative platforms and packages. Throughout, we aim to make our work thought-provoking yet accessible – and ultimately, value-added.
PAST PROJECTS
Throughout the last decade, we have been supporting various public and private clients with art consultancy services – ranging from selecting and installing art work, to providing arts-related content in events programming - and have actively engaged in private art dealership to promote the interests of Asian artists. In between, we have also delivered the following public presentations:
• Lim Tiong Ghee solo exhibition Tropical Contemplation at The Alchemy Gallery, London, UK (2000)
• Eng Tay solo exhibition Eng Tay: New and Earlier Work at The Air Gallery, London, UK (2001)
• Group exhibition of Southeast-Asian artists Expressions of Self at Sky Penthouses, “Point West”, London, UK (2001)
• Chua Ek Kay and Shan Fan joint exhibition An Exhibition of Paintings by Shan Fan and Chua Ek Kay at The Millennium Knightsbridge Hotel, London, UK and Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore (2001-2)
• Kumari Nahappan solo exhibition Between-ness at Plus One Plus Two Gallery, London, UK (2003)
• Singapore Uncovered Arts Festival featuring literary, film, art and theatre events, various venues, London, UK (2004)
• Asia House Charity Fundraising Concert and Dinner Jazz Singapore featuring Jacintha Abishegenaden and Mark Chan, Royal Garden Hotel, London, UK (2005)
• Singapore Uncovered 2007 Arts Festival, various venues, London, UK (2007)
CURRENT PROJECTS
• Development of online gallery featuring Asian artists’ original and limited edition works on paper
• Production of short “teaser” film for a documentary feature film on Singaporean Chinese ink artist Chua Ek Kay
• Development of feature-length documentary film on ink artist Chua Ek Kay
• Concept development for television series on Singaporean/Asian artists
NEXT STEPS
Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in working with us as a sponsor, content partner, audience development partner or in any other collaborative role. We would be happy to get to know you!
Contact: Jin-Theng Craven, jin.craven@btopenworld.com or artists@damaskasia.co.uk
If you’d like to be part of our creative talent network, please submit your CV / portfolio submissions by post only, addressed to: Damask Asia (Portfolio), High Lodge, 11 Waterside, Bingley BD16 2SN, UK. If you have your own website or other online references, you can include details in your submissions, if you wish.
Damask Asia offers you creative avenues through unique events, film products, art sourcing and other art projects. In working with you we also hope to further cultural understanding and create thoughtful connection between artists and audiences. As part of a team or as an independent resource, whatever your needs we will work with you to realise the creative vision.