Wings of Art 2025, which happens 24 June to 1 July at Marina Square, seeks to raise $100,000 to support underprivileged children and youths through the Singapore Red Cross Young Hearts initiative. The money will fund education and mentorship programmes for them.
Wings of Art is a collaboration between Peace of Art, founded by artist Eunice Yeo; Wings of Childhood, led by artist Dawn Koh, and #FlushableFashion, by Jian Yang.
Featuring 1,060 Winged Barbie dolls, this brings together artists, supporters, and beneficiaries in a meaningful initiative that merges creativity and sustainability. And everyone can chip in, here’s how:
1 Bid for your favourite Winged Barbie.
Designed by 60 Singaporean artists—some with international accolades under their belts, others better known in other fields—the Winged Barbie Charity Auction celebrates the SG60 spirit of hope and imagination.
Bid here.
2 Design your Winged Barbie.
Singapore’s Largest Barbie Doll Runway stretches 60 metres long and stars 1,060 dolls, including yours. Sign up for a crafting session, and learn to use art materials and a pair of wings to decorate your doll. You can either bring her home after the showcase, or donate it to the fundraiser.
Register here.
Other highlights at Wings of Art 2025 includes a Community Wings Sculpture installation made of recycled glass and crystal; Wings-themed photo booth; and exciting hands-on activities and games at the Fringe Carnival and Imagination Zone.
Discover more about Wings of Art from Yeo.
How and why did you start to fundraise for the Singapore Red Cross Young Hearts Programme?
In 2021, while Singapore was still battling Covid-19, I watched a news programme about children living in public rental flats. It got me thinking that their Circuit Breaker must have been more challenging than many of ours, as most of them live in one-room homes. I decided to organise a Christmas wreath workshop for 50 friends, and donated the proceeds to the Singapore Red Cross Young Hearts Programme.
Wings of Art aims to raise $100,000 for the Singapore Red Cross Young Hearts programme. What should we know about the programme?
The Young Hearts programme fosters self-reliance and empowers children and youths, and plays a vital role in nurturing their holistic development through creating resources and opportunities, as well as guidance from role models.
Wings of Art is an initiative that transforms upcycled materials into large-scale public artworks and interactive art zones. How did this collaboration between Peace of Art, Wings of Childhood (Dawn Koh), and #FlushableFashion (Jian Yang) come about?
Dawn and I first met at last year’s Sustainable Christmas Market, which is organised by Peace of Art. She was there to help her son Jude sell postcards to raise funds for the Singapore Red Cross.
She shared with me about how Jian Yang and her have created these Winged Barbies for her movement helping women rediscovering childhood passions called Wings of Childhood. I also learnt that, like butterflies, many people have never seen their “wings”.
I thought SG60 was a good opportunity to celebrate our own “wings” and at the same time, give underprivileged children and opportunity to grow “wings” of their own.
Then Dawn introduced me to Jian. Agreeing that art should serve a purpose, Jian made the introduction to Mattel. With Barbie now in the picture, we wanted to inspire others to let their dreams take flight.
The event features Singapore’s Longest Barbie Doll Runway. Among the 1,060 winged Barbie dolls are 60 hand-crafted by artists!
Our call-out on the Peace of Art IG attracted tremendous response from artists. What we conceived as a little passion project grew bigger and better, and everyone was very excited! Like watercolour artist Tamares Goh, ceramicist Delia Prvački, couture designer Frederick Lee, and social media star Willabelle Ong. We wanted to make this count, so we embraced every challenge as opportunities to do something good.
The Barbie dolls here were sponsored by Mattel—it is their first time supporting such a large-scale fundraiser! The other 1,000 dolls will be made available to members of the public, who can register for daily crafting sessions to design or dress up their Barbie.
As part of Wings of Art, these 60 Barbie dolls also feature in the Winged Barbie Charity Auction. Can you bring us up to speed with the bidding?
Wings from Wounds, produced by the Methodist Girls’ School Ideas (Innovation. Design. Entrepreneurship. Art for Society) Club using bottle tabs from canned beverages, has attracted a bid from Ms Loo Tze Hui, wife of PM Lawrence Wong. It’s a beautiful work and I hope she wins it!
You created Fragmented Light Barbie for the Runway. What was the creative process like?
I’ve been working with glass fragments for three years, and enjoy it greatly. These are offcuts from glass panels. My creations demonstrate that something broken can be used to build something beautiful. We don’t have to constantly produce new things in order to find beauty; instead, we can learn to appreciate the beauty in what’s already in our lives.
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