About the School
Awakening artistic potential and developing critical rigour.
Live and breathe your passion at the McNally School of Fine Arts. Named after LASALLE’s founder, the late Brother Joseph McNally, the School offers contemporary practice-driven and research-based programmes across Diploma, BA (Hons) and MA levels.
With a strong focus on Southeast Asia’s role in global contemporary art, the School is redefining the landscape of artistic practice and research in the region and across the world.
Programmes span the spectrum of ceramics, curation, drawing, painting, performance, photography, printmaking and sculpture alongside new media and installation art to integrate expanded practices with art histories and critical theories that contextualise and question conditions for cultural production. This is delivered through an innovative and interdisciplinary structure that propels transformative education—one that nurtures creative experimentation and responsive rigour through social and ecological conscientiousness.
A dynamic exchange between programmes in the School ensures a vibrant ecosystem where theories and practices interleave seamlessly to foster new possibilities across media and methods.
Students are taught, supervised and mentored by a diverse faculty of acclaimed and established art practitioners who bring international perspectives and intercultural insights deeply and directly into studios, workshops and classrooms.
Academics
Professor Adam Knee
Associate Professor Cissie Fu
Erzan Adam
Dr Francis Maravillas
Hazel Lim-Schlegel
Dr Ian Woo
Jeffrey Say
Adeline Kueh
Jeremy Sharma
Dr S Chandrasekaran
Salleh Japar
Nadia Oh Sueh Peng
Dr Wang Ruobing
Dr Woon Tien Wei
Diploma in Fine Arts
BA (Hons) Art Histories and Curatorial Practices: Asia and the World
BA (Hons) Fine Arts
MA Arts and Ecology
MA Asian Art Histories
MA Fine Arts
Soft Pastel Drawing I & II
Colour Grading in DaVinci Resolve
Ceramics: Raku
Acrylic Painting I, II & III
Botanical Drawing & Painting I & II
Ceramics for Absolute Beginners I, II, III & IV
Charcoal Drawing for Beginners
Chinese Ink Painting I – XV
Creative Writing: Screenwriting
Creative Writing: Travel Writing
Drawing: An Introduction
Figure Drawing I, II & III
Mixed Media Painting: An Introduction
Oil Painting I – VI
Highlights
Explore our highlights
Young Talent Programme
Cultural Medallion & Young Artist Award
International Conference on the Short Story in English Short Story Competition
IMPART Art Prize
12th Benesse Prize
UOB Painting of the Year
President’s Young Talents