Celeste Choo
Based in Singapore
MA, Art Therapy
AThR, AThS Registered Art Therapist
Bio
Celeste is an art therapist focused on fostering wellbeing and dignity in late life. In her clinical work, she journeys with individuals living with complex, often terminal conditions. These privileged encounters, alongside poignant personal experiences, continue to shape and humanise her practice profoundly.
She trained in psychodynamic art therapy at LASALLE College of the Arts, where she graduated with distinction and two postgraduate scholarships, the LASALLE Merit Award and the ANZACATA Scholarship for a Final Year Master’s Student.
Her therapy and creative practices are rooted in Singapore, her ever-evolving childhood home. In her downtime, she collects freckles, soaks up salt water and seeks stillness with yoga and meditation.
Artist statement
Celeste is intrigued by collective memory and social reality, which she explores through visual and material iteration. She has exhibited in galleries and community spaces in Japan, Singapore and South Korea.
Publications
Choo, C. (2025). Made to wonder: Creating space for spiritual encounters in art therapy [Poster Exhibition]. 16th Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Conference 2025 at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
Choo, C. (2024). Recreating ‘kampong’: Being with non-death losses through art therapy sessions with a patient receiving palliative care [Poster Exhibition]. Grief and Bereavement Conference 2024 “Embracing Diversity, Innovating Practice” at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore.
Choo, C. (2023). Seeking wordlessness: Reflections on a knitted journal. JoCAT: Journal of Creative Arts Therapies, 18(2). https://www.jocat-online.org/pp-23-choo
Pang, K. H., Choo, Z. Y. C., Lo, T. J. (2023). Holding on and Letting go: Supporting art therapist training in a hospice with the El-Duende Process Painting (EDPP) arts-based supervision method [Poster Exhibition]. 8th Singapore Palliative Care Conference 2023 “Building Collaborative Communities” at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore.
Group Exhibitions
Accidentally Wes Anderson in SHIBUYA at Shibuya Hikarie Hall, Tokyo, Japan (25 November to 28 December 2023)
Transcending…, The LASALLE Show at The Praxis Space, LASALLE College of the Arts (McNally Campus), Singapore (May 2023)
Accidentally Wes Anderson Community Exhibition at Ground Seesaw, Tokyo, Japan (April to May 2023)
Always Remembering Them part of the Inter-Faith Memorial Service at Assisi Hospice, Singapore (March to April 2023)
Accidentally Wes Anderson Community Exhibition at Ground Seesaw, Seoul, South Korea (November to December 2021)
