Quality. Creativity. Passion.
Here at the Animal Arts Academy, our goal is to provide the best care for your pets. Our certified, award winning groomers are committed to deliver the best possible experience for you and your pets.
When we are not serving you, our groomers are taking part in grooming competitions, or upgrading themselves with advanced courses. We made a commitment to stay atop the latest trends and grooming techniques.
Like we said, only the best.
Co-founded in 2006 by our director Kingsly Tan, Animal Arts Academy began as a salon at Singapore’s VivoCity The Pet Safari. Animal Arts Academy provides only the best for your pets – with quality, creativity and passion.
AAA is a subsidiary company at Pet Lovers Centre with a network of 14 pet grooming salons and we are still growing!
Our academy is a fully certified grooming establishment by the Singapore Kennel Club (SKC), and often participate in many pet grooming competitions held in Singapore and Internationally. We believe in helping groomers reach whole new levels of expertise. Our graduates are proficient and professional, compassionate and genuinely care for the pets they work with.
Our training courses includes an industry immersion program where you will learn and gain professional exposure alongside our stylists at one of our grooming salons. Jobs may even be available within our salons for you to join upon your successful completion of our courses!
Our education program is dynamic, exciting and fulfilling. Many of our students have benefited from our professional courses to become top pet grooming award winners and also successful entrepreneurs where they have started their own pet shops and grooming salons.
We aim to continue to develop successful pet stylists for the industry!
Our Creative Winning Team.
Quality. Creativity. Passion.
Here at Animal Arts Academy, these are our values.
Kingsly Tan
Director & Principal
Our Principal Kingsly Tan is a certified master groomer by the Singapore Kennel Club and an A class groomer with the Kennel Club of Taiwan (KCT). Despite having achieved recognition, Kingsly believes in constantly upgrading himself and developing new grooming techniques to share with his students. Always seeking to improve himself, our principal is also active in conformation dog shows – poodles, bichons and miniature schnauzers are his speciality. Kingsly has bagged many awards to date, including Best in Show.
In his youth, Kingsly travelled extensively, studying the art of pet grooming in different countries – Canada, the United States, China and Taiwan, to name a few. In his studies he discovered that pet grooming was very different in the East and the West. Pet groomers in Canada, America and Europe had a far better understanding of pet anatomy and body profiles, and held themselves to very high standards of workmanship. Pet groomers in the East possessed superior skills with their scissors – their scissoring was far more intricate and meticulous than their western counterparts.
Kingsly has been invited by Artero to conduct grooming seminar in Spain and Malaysia. Artero Jornadas Spain is the biggest grooming show internationally where all the top groomers around the world are invited.
In 2015, Kingsly was appointed to become a grooming judge by the Singapore Kennel club and had since been invited by the Malaysia Kennel association and Korea Kennel Federation to judge in their grooming contest and examination.
Having studied under both traditions of pet grooming, Kingsly put together what he had learned, and developed a special, unique technique of pet grooming. It is a style that combines the best of the East and the West, and here at the Animal Arts Academy, it is Kingsly’s personal mission to teach this technique to his students.
Credentials
- 2018 – Artero World Groom Team
- 2016 – Artero Creative Team Singapore Master Groomer
- 2015 – Singapore Kennel Club Certified Grooming Judge
- 2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Certified Master Groomer
- 2014 – Kennel Club of Taiwan class A certified groomer
- 2008 – Singapore Kennel Club class A certified groomer
- 2007 – Singapore Kennel Club class B certified groomer
- 2005 – Travelled to U.S to learn showing poodles from a top poodle handler
- 2001 – Graduated from Pets Beautiful grooming school (Canada)
Awards
- 2014 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class A 2nd Place
- 2008 – Singapore Kennel Club Class A 1st Place
- 2007 – Singapore Kennel Club Class B 1st Place
- 2004 – Pet Esthe pet colouring contest 2nd Prize
- 2003 – Classified Golden Clipper Contest 1st Prize
Ng Sze Ting
Grooming Instructor & Senior Stylist
Sze Ting is our grooming instructor, and has won many awards in Taiwan and Singapore. She graduated from 1 of the top grooming school in Taiwan. She is extremely dedicated to teaching, she wants her students to do well and ensure she do her best for her students.
Credentials
- 2016 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class A certified groomer
- 2015 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class B certified groomer
- 2014 – Dog Groomers’ Association of Singapore Class B certified groomer
- 2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Class B certified groomer
- 2014 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class C certified groomer
Awards
- 2018 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class A Merit Award
- 2015 – Singapore Kennel Club AGF Class B 1st Prize Best Technical Award
- 2014 – Dog Groomer’s Association of Singapore Technical Award
- 2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Open Class Technical Award
- 2014 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class C Award Of Merit
Animal Arts Academy @ Serangoon Gardens
Sze Ting is our grooming instructor, and has won many awards in Taiwan and Singapore. She graduated from 1 of the top grooming school in Taiwan. She is extremely dedicated to teaching, she wants her students to do well and ensure she do her best for her students.
Credentials
2016 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class A certified groomer
2015 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class B certified groomer
2014 – Dog Groomers’ Association of Singapore Class B certified groomer
2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Class B certified groomer
2014 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class C certified groomer
Awards
2018 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class A Merit Award
2015 – Singapore Kennel Club AGF Class B 1st Prize Best Technical Award
2014 – Dog Groomer’s Association of Singapore Technical Award
2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Open Class Technical Award
2014 – Kennel Club of Taiwan Class C Award Of Merit
Bastian is a dedicated groomer who puts his whole heart into any dog he grooms. His extensive knowledge of the grooming process also makes him a great trainer, enabling students to learn additional things not inside the curriculum. He loves trying out different cuts and styles and aims to make the animals he grooms leave the salon looking the best they can.
Credentials
2018 - Singapore Kennel Club Class B certified groomer
2017 - MGA Class A Pure Breed certified groomer
2017 - MGS Class B Saloon Freestyle certified groomer
2016 - MGA Pure Breed (Toy Poodle) Class B certified groomer
2016 - MKA Class C Pure Breed certified groomer
Awards
2018 - Singapore Kennel Club Open Class 1st Place
2017 - MGA Class A Pure Breed 3rd Place
2017 - MGA Best In Show Award
2017 - MGA Class B Outstanding Award
2017 - MGA Class B Saloon Freestyle 1st Place
2016 - MGA Class B Outstanding Award
2016 - MGA Class B Pure Breed 1st Place
Faith has a soft spot for Singapore specials, schnauzers and puppies. Her speciality is in natural and shaggy looking styles. She spends her free time with her dogs and volunteering in animal welfare groups.
Credentials
2018 - Kennel Club of Taiwan Class C certified groomer
2018 - Graduated from Animal Arts Academy
2019 - Kennel Club of Taiwan Class B certified groomer
Awards
2018 - Kennel Club of Taiwan Class C Technical Award
Ryan graduated from Animal Arts Academy in year 2016, he is a patient and hardworking groomer making sure he does a good job for his customers no matter how difficult the job is.
Credentials
2016 – Singapore Kennel Club Class C certified groomer
2016 – Graduated from Animal Arts Academy (Singapore)
2019 - Kennel Club of Taiwan Class B certified groomer
Awards
2018 - Singapore Kennel Club Asian Fusion 1st Prize
2019 - Singapore Kennel Club Outstanding Groomer Award
2019 - Kennel Club of Taiwan Award of Merit for B Class
The Pet Safari @ VivoCity
Zann Tan has been working in the industry since she was 20. Graduating from the Animal Arts Academy in 2010, her love and passion for animals makes her service likable to both pets and their owners.
Credentials
2015 – Singapore Kennel Club Class B certified groomer
2012 – Dog Groomer’s Association Class B certified groomer
2011 – Dog Groomer’s Association Class C certified groomer
2010 – Graduated from Animal Arts Academy (Singapore)
Awards
2015 – Singapore Kennel Club Open Class 1st Prize
2012 – Dog Groomer’s Association Class B 2nd Prize
2011 – Dog Groomer’s Association Class C 3rd Prize
Wen Xuan graduated from Animal Arts Academy in 2016 and has been working as a groomer with us since then. She’s extremely passionate about her job and enjoys bringing her dog Aspen for long nightly walks.
Credentials
2016 - Singapore Kennel Club Class C certified groomer
The Pet Safari @ Nexmall
Shermine is a keen learner who picks up different styles quickly. Her interest in grooming was sparked when she got her Maltipoo Oscar and she has been experimenting on grooming different styles for him herself even before she became a groomer.
Credentials
2018 - Singapore Kennel Club Class C certified groomer
2018 - Kennel Club of Taiwan Class C certified groomer
2018 - Graduated from Animal Arts Academy
Awards
2018 - Singapore Kennel Club Class C Award of Merit
Pet Lovers Centre @ Kembangan
Feng Feng has been working in the pet industry since 2008. Achieved Class C certification from Association of Small Animal Protection(CPGA), Beijing in 2009 and Class B certification from Shanghai Naughty Family Pets Co. Ltd in 2010.
Credentials
2012 – Attended full course in Shanghai Fundamental Stone Pet Grooming Training School (CKU)
2010 – Shanghai Naughty Family Pet Co. Ltd Class B certified groomer
2009 – Association of Small Animal Protection(CPGA) Class C certified groomer
Summer graduated from Animal Arts Academy in 2018. She is a gentle and caring groomer. Her favourite breed is a Promeranian.
Credentials
2018 – Singapore Kennel Club Class C certified groomer
2018 – Graduated from Animal Arts Academy (Singapore)
2019 - Kennel Club of Taiwan Class B certified groomer
Awards
2018 – 15th Singapore Kennel Club Grooming Examination Open Class Award of Merit
Pet Lovers Centre @ Balmoral Plaza
Catherine Lim has been working in the pet industry since the age of 19 years old. She graduated from Animal Arts Academy in 2012 and she started off working as a groomer at Kuala Lumpur outlet in year 2012.
Credentials
2018 – Singapore Kennel Club Class A Certified Groomer
2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Class B certified groomer
2014 – Dog Groomers’ Association of Singapore Class B certified groomer
2013 – Singapore Kennel Club Class C certified groomer
2012 – Graduated from Animal Arts Academy (Singapore)
Awards
2018 – Singapore Kennel Club Class A Technical Award 2nd Prize
2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Class B 2nd Prize
2014 – Dog Groomers’ Association of Singapore Class B 3rd Prize
Shaun is always up for a challenge with more difficult to handle dogs but has a gentle touch when it comes to smaller animals and cats. He especially loves grooming rabbits and cats.
Credentials
2018 - Singapore Kennel Club C Class certified groomer
2018 - Graduated from Animal Arts Academy
2019 - Singapore Kennel Club B Class certified groomer
Annie is responsible and a keen learner. She takes her duties very seriously and is amazing at detangling dogs. She’s also really good at the shop’s housekeeping. She hopes to learn dog therapy after working as a groomer for a few years.
The Pet Safari @ Star Vista
Catherine Lim has been working in the pet industry since the age of 19 years old. She graduated from Animal Arts Academy in 2012 and she started off working as a groomer at Kuala Lumpur outlet in year 2012.
Credentials
2018 – Singapore Kennel Club Class A Certified Groomer
2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Class B certified groomer
2014 – Dog Groomers’ Association of Singapore Class B certified groomer
2013 – Singapore Kennel Club Class C certified groomer
2012 – Graduated from Animal Arts Academy (Singapore)
Awards
2018 – Singapore Kennel Club Class A Technical Award 2nd Prize
2014 – Singapore Kennel Club Class B 2nd Prize
2014 – Dog Groomers’ Association of Singapore Class B 3rd Prize
Shaun is always up for a challenge with more difficult to handle dogs but has a gentle touch when it comes to smaller animals and cats. He especially loves grooming rabbits and cats.
Credentials
2018 - Singapore Kennel Club C Class certified groomer
2018 - Graduated from Animal Arts Academy
2019 - Singapore Kennel Club B Class certified groomer
Annie is responsible and a keen learner. She takes her duties very seriously and is amazing at detangling dogs. She’s also really good at the shop’s housekeeping. She hopes to learn dog therapy after working as a groomer for a few years.
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