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...
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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.