All about Oat

If you haven’t heard of Oat Montien, you are likely to very soon.

The productive third-year Bachelor of Arts (Visual Communication) student, majoring in Graphic Design here at Raffles College, is becoming a regular feature of Sydney’s design scene.

Oat, 19, was recently invited to exhibit 10 of his works at the inaugural Emerging Designers Exhibition last month at Paddington Markets, along with 19 other young Sydney designers.

Just a few months ago, in November, he was one of eight contestants in the final round of the Cut&Paste digital design tournament, and this December he will participate in the Fashique program, a monthly exhibition for up and coming creatives, held at Ruby Rabbit in Sydney.

Next year promises to be even bigger, with a solo exhibition planned for March 2009 at the Kinokuniya Gallery, featuring a body of work in every field of design.

“I’m going to be busy but it will be great fun. As a part of Fashique, I’ll be showing my first-ever fashion parade called ‘O’s by Oat Montien’. My friends from Raffles College who study fashion, multimedia and graphic design will be helping me out, so it’s really a collaborative project. It’ll be something like the Raffles College showcase, because everyone I know will be involved in some way. I’m really looking forward to it,� Oat says.

Oat typically uses digital collage, computer illustration and painting in his work.

The one-time Kinokuniya Digital Art Prize winner is currently designing an online shop displaying his work as a part of a major project at Raffles College, which he hopes to eventually upload to the web.