About Hamish
Hamish Betts is a New Zealand born, Singapore based artist, pastor, educator, and speaker. He has been all of these things simultaneously for long enough that they no longer feel like separate roles. They are just different expressions of the same instinct: taking things that feel inaccessible and making them inhabitable for people who thought those things weren't for them.
The Artist
Hamish has been a working artist since late teens , beginning with large scale public murals across New Zealand before relocating to Singapore in 2008. His portfolio spans over 7,000 square metres of original public art, alongside sculpture, mixed media installation, and detailed illustration. His work has been exhibited at the ArtScience Museum as part of the Waves of Change Festival, and in two solo exhibitions with Luca Global. He designs and builds environments as well as objects: the places he creates are a manifestation of culture and vision; embuing the physical space with the heartbeat of beliefs and values that sit beneath the surface.
The Educator
Hamish spent twenty years in education, moving from primary school classrooms in New Zealand to curriculum leadership and teacher development across the Asia-Pacific. He has trained over 3,000 early childhood educators across Australia and China, and developed integrated art curriculums across twenty schools. He founded inspired Arts, a successful Arts school and enrichment provider; winning people's choice awards in the Finder and Expat Living. He now runs and operates The Inspire Space SG in Little India: a creative venue and studio learning hub where schools, teachers, and communities come to create, grow consider new perspectives.
The Pastor
In 2011, Hamish and his wife Haidee founded Inspire Church Singapore with a single founding conviction: love without agenda. Fifteen years later that conviction still shapes everything the community does. Inspire Church has become home for people from remarkably different backgrounds and journeys, from the lifelong churchgoer to the person who had quietly decided church was no longer for them, all finding themselves in the same room, grateful to find a place of acceptance, belonging and growth.
The Texture...
He completed a Masters of Global Leadership at Fuller Seminary in 2024, with a focus on organisational dynamics and the theology of culture. He is currently working on his first book; Love Without Agenda.
The common texture running through all of these lived experiences is the same one that runs through his art: there is almost always something unexpected just beneath the surface of the ordinary. His job, in whatever room he is in, is to help people to discover it.
