About Siau-Jiun Lim
Siau-Jiun graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) and a Graduate Diploma with distinctions from the Dunedin School of Art and received the Con Hutton Scholarship during her four years of study. Her work is included in the Wallace Arts Trust Collection and is held in the Moray Gallery, Dunedin. She often goes beyond traditional brushes, incorporating found objects and creating her own tools from natural materials, allowing texture and physical gestures to play an active role in her work. For her, painting is a means of exploring place, time, and lived experience.
Siau-Jiun graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) and a Graduate Diploma with distinctions from the Dunedin School of Art and received the Con Hutton Scholarship during her four years of study. Her work is included in the Wallace Arts Trust Collection and is held in the Moray Gallery, Dunedin. She often goes beyond traditional brushes, incorporating found objects and creating her own tools from natural materials, allowing texture and physical gestures to play an active role in her work. For her, painting is a means of exploring place, time, and lived experience.
Her artistic practice extends beyond the studio and into everyday life. She engages in community-based projects, such as organising rubbish clean-ups, participating in tree planting at Sinclair Wetlands, and conducting art workshops in rest homes. These experiences shape her perspective and are woven into her paintings.
Siau-Jiun also works professionally as a digital product designer and holds a Master of Design, with a primary focus on personal finance management and educational systems. This professional background integrates her systems thinking, interest in human behaviour, and broader life philosophy into her art-making.
More about my works and journey: www.siaujiunlim.co.nz
Mission and value of this class
More about my works and journey: www.siaujiunlim.co.nz
Mission and value of this class
Driving from my lifelong journey in art, with an endless passion to see it winding and the challenges along the way. Sharing and teaching art is seeing others' lives shine and come alive. As a facilitator for international students and for the arts for residents at a rest home. I believe everyone is born with a unique skill in painting and learning. What we need to do is just practise it and make it a part of our identity, part of our DNA. This theory is supported by my understanding of autonomy in learning and personal finance management, and by my 20-year journey. Given my time and space constraints, I would love to lead this community and see individuals flourish in their own way.
The mission and vision for this class are to help people like me who hold other life commitments and still want to see the possibility of their creative journey. Join me just for one reason: you want to paint.
The mission and vision for this class are to help people like me who hold other life commitments and still want to see the possibility of their creative journey. Join me just for one reason: you want to paint.