Listen "On Mentorship and Identifying the Next Generation of Artists | Episode 16"
Episode Synopsis
The WLG Young Artists Collaborative Mentorship Program is a program under the WLG Incubator, that provides the opportunity for emerging artists to be advised and guided by an established artist. Launched in 2020 and held for the second time in 2021, each year, thorough research was conducted to identify the next generation of young progressive artists from Malaysia. In this episode, our Gallery Director Lim-Wei Ling shares her intensions of initiating the program, together with contemporary Malaysian artists Anurendra Jegadeva and Ivan Lam, who were mentors of the program’s first two editions. Curious of why they find this program important, and what interesting exchanges took place between the young artists and their mentors?