Teach Art in Singapore — sketchbook, studio and exam room

Most matches are Secondary and JC candidates: Art 6114 at O-Level, Higher Art 6124 for students carrying the subject further, and H2 Art 9357 in JC. Lower-secondary students come through too, usually families who want the looking and drawing habits in place before the coursework years arrive. You tell us which of these you are comfortable taking, and matching stays inside that.

We ask about your practice and about how you explain it. Applications come from practising artists and designers, art-school graduates, undergraduates who carried the subject through JC, and current or former art teachers. A formal teaching qualification adds weight to an application. What decides a match is whether you can watch a student work and name the one thing that moves the piece forward.

Much of it, yes — and some of it goes better in the room. Composition review, idea development, artist research, sketchbook annotation and critique all hold up over a camera when the student props the work in decent light. Colour mixing, the pressure of a tool on a surface, printmaking and 3D work are easier face to face. List the mode you want, or list both, and matching follows what you listed.

Art carries a made component alongside the examination, so the two live in one calendar. Schools set their own internal deadlines for the studio work, and those usually bite first — the weeks before a submission go into resolving pieces already underway. Study and written components sit alongside that. Much of the tutoring is keeping both timelines visible to a student who can only see the piece in front of them.

Students work with their own materials, and the family buys what the school asks for. You are welcome to bring a sketchbook or a few tools of your own to demonstrate with. Nothing beyond that is expected of you.

Tell us your range when you apply and matching holds to it. Observation, composition, idea development and critique travel across mediums, so a painter can take a drawing-based student a long way. Specialist areas — printmaking, ceramics, darkroom photography — go to tutors who practise them.

That depends on how many matches fit your availability, your travel radius and the mediums you teach, and we will not promise a number in advance. One student is commonly one session a week, running longer as a coursework deadline approaches. You set a ceiling on your hours and we stay under it.

At an hourly rate in SGD between S$30 and S$85, agreed with you before the first session and paid on time. The rate is settled at the point of match, so there is nothing to renegotiate once the teaching is done.

Applications are open to people based in Singapore who can teach here in person or online. The role is part-time contract work. Send the tutor enquiry form on our contact page with your mediums, levels and availability, and our team will follow up.