Artist talk 

Viv Lawes is Senior UK Consultant for Larasati and sister gallery One East Asia, and has curated numerous exhibitions of Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art in London since 2011. She has written catalogue essays for several Southeast Asian modern and contemporary artists, including Chang Fee Ming (Malaysia), Jane Lee (Singapore) and Andres Barrioquinto (Philippines). She recently co-authored a book on the late Si ngaporean artist Cheong Soo Pieng (1917 - 1983 ). In addition to her work with Larasati, Viv is an art historian, curator, and former art market journalist based in London, combining an extensive hands-on career in the art business with academic research and teaching in Higher Education, Continuing Education, and public -facing organisations. At Sotheby’s Institute of Art she is Programme Director of the Art History Professional Certificate, and leads or contributes to several other courses at the Institute. She also teaches at the University of the Arts London, the City & Guilds of London Art School, SOAS (University of London), and Imperial College, and the University of Warwick. She is an accredited lecturer for international organisation The Arts Society, lecturing in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. As a journalist, she has written for numerous publications, including The Art Newspaper, the Antiques Trade Gazette and The Guardian newspaper. She has authored artists’ catalogues, including a major essay for the acclaimed Chinese watercolourist Yang Ming-yi’s retrospective at Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum (June 2021). The catalogue won a publishing prize in China in 2023.