Akshatha's interest in Southeast Asian contemporary art led her to pursue an MA Asian Art Histories degree. She is a sculptor who graduated with an MFA in 2010. Her fascination with words and language has motivated her research in Chinese and Urdu calligraphy, which has shaped her process-oriented sculptures. Her MA thesis analyses Indonesian text-based art. Read more.... Akshatha Rangarajan (Graduated in 2022)
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Akshatha's interest in Southeast Asian contemporary art led her to pursue an MA Asian Art Histories degree. She is a sculptor who graduated with an MFA in 2010. Her fascination with words and language has motivated her research in Chinese and Urdu calligraphy, which has shaped her process-oriented sculptures. Her MA thesis analyses Indonesian text-based art. Read more.... 
The MA Asian Art Histories Programme at LASALLE is collaborating with the London School of Economics on a series of roundtables on South Asia. The first one was held in November last year. The next session is on 16 June 2022 and is titled The Spice Route: Connected Histories in South and Southeast Asia. The Programme Leader of the MA Asian Art Histories Programme, Jeffrey Say, will be the discussant.
This symposium explores memory, trauma and the politics of the past in Asian contemporary art. It investigates the legacies of violence in the region, probing its continued, if repressed, imprint on Asia’s socio-political landscape. If history is written by the victors, who speaks for history’s victims? Art historians Dr Wulan Dirgantoro and Dr Nayun Jang team up with acclaimed Indonesian artist 
By Ashwariya Khemka and Masturah Sha’ari
The year 2020 was struck with the horrifying global pandemic of COVID-19, which brought a dramatic stop to most lives across the globe. While most colleges were forced to shift to online-based learning in many countries, including Singapore, students here were eventually able to return to school, following the government’s clearly outlined directives 
Winston Hauw’s keen interest in the LASALLE Asian Art Histories programme arose from his passion and appreciation of Southeast Asian art. Winston’s MA thesis, completed days before his 67th birthday, is about the role of the allegory in the social realist artwork of Singapore artists. Winston is a quantity surveying practitioner by profession and an alumnus of the University of Reading, U.K. He