Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh

Sylvia Lee Goh had her first solo show in May 1998 at the Creative Center of the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in an exhibition entitled “Two Decades of Art from the Heart”. Having partaken in more than 50 exhibitions locally and abroad, Sylvia's works exemplify a captured and frozen mo...

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Main Author: Abdullah, Sarena
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
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description Sylvia Lee Goh had her first solo show in May 1998 at the Creative Center of the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in an exhibition entitled “Two Decades of Art from the Heart”. Having partaken in more than 50 exhibitions locally and abroad, Sylvia's works exemplify a captured and frozen moment in time of the Peranakan life and social legacy. The Peranakans, otherwise known as the Babas and Nyonyas, is a conspicuous group of acculturated Chinese in Malaya, particularly in the Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) hence its other name, the Straits Chinese. For the last 30 years, Sylvia Lee Goh's paintings, as I deliberate in this paper capture and encapsulate her own memories and personal narratives in the form of her own visual autobiographical paintings.
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spelling usm-309102017-09-20T09:55:54Z http://eprints.usm.my/30910/ Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh Abdullah, Sarena ND Painting NX1-820 Arts in general Sylvia Lee Goh had her first solo show in May 1998 at the Creative Center of the National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in an exhibition entitled “Two Decades of Art from the Heart”. Having partaken in more than 50 exhibitions locally and abroad, Sylvia's works exemplify a captured and frozen moment in time of the Peranakan life and social legacy. The Peranakans, otherwise known as the Babas and Nyonyas, is a conspicuous group of acculturated Chinese in Malaya, particularly in the Straits Settlements (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) hence its other name, the Straits Chinese. For the last 30 years, Sylvia Lee Goh's paintings, as I deliberate in this paper capture and encapsulate her own memories and personal narratives in the form of her own visual autobiographical paintings. 2015-12 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/30910/1/ICONSEASylviaLeeGoh.pdf Abdullah, Sarena (2015) Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh. In: 6th International Conference on Southeast Asia (ICONSEA 2015), 2nd - 4th December 2015, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.
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Abdullah, Sarena
Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh
title Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh
title_full Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh
title_fullStr Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh
title_full_unstemmed Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh
title_short Reading Painting as Visual Autobiography: Peranakan Paintings by Sylvia Lee Goh
title_sort reading painting as visual autobiography: peranakan paintings by sylvia lee goh
topic ND Painting
NX1-820 Arts in general
url http://eprints.usm.my/30910/
http://eprints.usm.my/30910/1/ICONSEASylviaLeeGoh.pdf