Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng is an arts practitioner, educator, and scholar, who works across theatre, film, and photography. He has worked closely with the critically acclaimed theatre company Wild Rice, winning a Life Theatre Award for his multimedia design for Supervision (2018). In 2017, he directed Skin Tight, a collaboration with the dance choreographers Ah Hock and Peng Yu for the M1 Fringe Festival. Ng’s research interests lie in queer representation in the arts and the recovery of queer narratives in the East Asian and Southeast Asian regions from oral histories and personal archives. He holds an MA with Distinction in Performance Making from Goldsmiths College, UK, and a BFA with Honours in Photography and Digital Imaging from Nanyang Technological University.

Ng’s PhD research project is an investigation into queer vernacular photography from Singapore between 1965 and 1985. It proposes a potential history of the queer community through the study of everyday photographs by and/or of gay men and trans women. Utilizing the methods of photo archival research and case studies supported by visual analysis and oral history interviews, the research asks: What can we learn by looking in parallel at how a nation defined itself post-independence and how its queer citizens were doing the same?

Education

• Goldsmiths, University of London
  Master of Arts (MA) with Distinction, Performance Making

• Nanyang Technological University Singapore
  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Art, Design and Media

• Nanyang Technological University Singapore
  Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Photography and Digital Imaging