NURAISHAH RASHID

Nuraishah Rashid is an artist and educator whose passions derive from the intersections of play and research. She received a Diploma in Art Teaching from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2021 and recently graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Arts London. Nuraishah has extensive experience teaching art to children from the elementary to secondary level. As an artist and aspiring filmmaker, Nuraishah taps into her childhood and mixed heritage and explores them through various mediums from sculpture to film-based works.

Nuraishah has shown her works in the Ngee Ann Kongsi Galleries in exhibitions for the NAFA Open House (2021 & 2022), and the Flagship Genius featuring Ayutthaya III (2022). Externally, she has exhibited at Gillman Barracks for The Starving Artists Exhibition (2021) supported by Arts Outreach, and an alumni group show at Straits Gallery for Open Call III: Hang on, Hear us out (2023). She has worked on a collaborative art project for Assisi Hospice x NAFA - Stories of Care (2021) and participated in the NAC Community Arts Residency  (2021) as a Student Observer with artist Wayne Lim. In 2022, she completed an art residency in Solo, Indonesia at Studio Plesungan, run by artist Melati Suryodarmo, where she produced her first film Leluhurku (My ancestors).

Nuraishah is a recipient of the Mendaki Youth Promise Award in 2021. She has also received the Make An Impact Award from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for her sustained rigour of research and practice in her undergraduate studies.