In 2007, a small group of five planned to turn the former Methodist Girls School located on Mount Sophia into a nexus of artistic activity. They attempted to go against the tide of tradition, to alter the relationship between art and commerce and to address the development of future creativity – and formed Old School.
Theirs is a way of uniting opposites:
imagination and simplicity traditional and contemporary, creativity and functionality.
The 6-blocks property was turned into a art complex, minimal in style but rich in history and architecture. The building incorporating ground-floor art galleries & café space, creative studios, artist studios and an art film theatre along with contemporary and guerrilla art and popular culture events.
Many of Singapore’s creative classes are gathered at Old School: design firms, photographers, galleries, artists, musicians (Philharmonic Orchestra Society), and the film theatre, Sinema.
Old School embodies the new artistic, cultural bent that Singapore as a nation is driving towards.
