Paris – Source of inspiration for local artists
By Ooi Kok Chuen
September 2015 PENANG PALETTE
Until Lai Foong Moi paved the yellowbrick road to the art world of Paris in 1953, few in Malaya/Singapore thought it possible for them to traverse such a path.Malaya was not even independent yet, and a woman’s place then was in the shadows and in the kitchen. Formal education in Fine Arts too, for a woman, was unheard of; preposterous, even.Lai Foong Moi.But Lai, born in Seremban and educated at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) in Singapore where...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
