The 7th Liu Kang Annual Lecture explores the role of photography in Liu Kang's artistic process, focusing on his 1952 Bali trip. Gretchen Liu will discuss photography's influence on his sketches and paintings, followed by a discussion and book signing.
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When: 2pm | Sat 10 May 2025 - Suitable For: All
- Where: City Hall Wing, Level B1, The Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium
- Free, registration required
About the speakers
Gretchen Liu is a writer and independent scholar with an interest in visual culture and heritage. A former journalist and book editor, she commissioned one of the first books on Singapore’s visual heritage, "A Vision of the Past: A History of Early Photography in Singapore and Malaya: The photographs of G R Lambert & Co, 1880–1910" by John Falconer (1987). She has written "Pastel Portraits: Singapore’s Architectural Heritage" (1984); "In Granite and Chunam: The National Monuments of Singapore" (1996); "From the Family Album: Photographs from the Lee Brothers Studio Singapore 1910–1925" (1995) and "Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819–2000" (1999). She was involved in the restoration of Raffles Hotel in the early 1990s as the in-house historian and penned several books on its history. Most recently she has been researching the life and times of her father-in-law the artist Liu Kang.
Teo Hui Min is Curator at National Gallery Singapore, where she contributes to the curation of "Singapore Stories" and "Beyond Declarations and Dreams", long-term exhibitions of Singapore and Southeast Asian art from the 19th century to the present. Other exhibitions she has co-curated include "Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America" (2023), "Mohammad Din Mohammad: The Mistaken Ancestor" (2021), "Georgette Chen: At Home in the World" (2020) and "Lim Cheng Hoe: Painting Singapore" (2018). Hui Min holds an MA in Art History from University College London and a BA in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics.