How do our lived experiences shape our perspective of the future? A View of Things to Come brings together visual art and poetry in a dialogue between voices not often heard, and invites you, the viewer, to take part in a conversation of change and possibility.
Presented as part of Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) Encounters, a year-round series of programmes leading up to the Festival each November, this cross-disciplinary exhibition engages ex-offender artists and seniors to share their views.
The exhibition features eight original paintings by artists from CANVAS, a community group supporting ex-offenders formerly trained at Changi Prison’s Visual Arts Hub. Under the mentorship of artist Barry Yeow and producer Phan Ming Yen, these artists have created works that echo the SWF 2025 theme, Shape of Things to Come – a meditation on a future marked by uncertainty, yet rich with opportunities for those brave enough to seize them.
In response to these paintings, seniors brought together by St Luke’s ElderCare composed poems through workshops led by poet Aaron Lee. What emerges is an evolving conversation that asks how we might co-author a kinder future when we listen to one another – this is our shared view of things to come.
Venues: The Arts House at the Old Parliament, Film Gallery
When: 9 - 31 Jan 2026, 10am - 10pm
By: The Arts House at the Old Parliament
