Ella Ong Liqing

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Ella Ong (b. 2001, Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist completing her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Fine Art at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. With a sensitivity to form and atmosphere, she works at the intersection of memory and internal systems, building artefacts of the self in tactile and structurally honest forms. Her practice spans concrete casting, electronics, and poetic text, combining them into responsive environments that externalise internal processes of perception, pacing, and coherence. Her work seeks to invite reflection on communication and challenges conventions of self representation.

Ella received her Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering in 2021. She has exhibited internationally at the Morgue, Chelsea College of Arts in 2025. Her publications Synthosphere and Electron Asterism were featured in Singapore Art Book Fair 2025. She has exhibited works in Menagerie at the Photographic Society of Singapore as well as NAFA Open House in 2024.

Alien to interpretable form... My practice translates my memories into objects that communicate my existential constitution. In the honest environments I create, I explain my being through a shared language of material and encourage contemplation of personal nature and thresholds of the self.

Title: Workshop Cerebellam: Stage 3
Year: 2026
Medium: Installation
Statement:

This process-based work originates from the investigation of how cognitive architecture can be externalised and communicated through material form. It draws on systems theories—General Systems Theory, Second-order Cybernetics—Donna Haraway’s Feminist Objectivity, Clark and Chalmers’ Extended Mind Theory, and phenomenological documentation to build a structural vocabulary, in the form of “material-cognitive pairings”. Through the project’s initial stages, these linguistic pairings were translated into a sculptural environment. Workshop Cerebellam’s third stage serves as the bridge between its previous physical sculpture and subsequent 2D, text-based presentation.