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Lim Siang Jin

Lim Siang Jin

Talking Evolution with The Edge

Talking Evolution with The Edge

ON JULY 6, 2026, the Options pullout in The Edge carried an interview I had with its editor, Diana Khoo, on my Evolution exhibition at ArtVoice Gallery, June 28-July, 2026. It is republished here with permission. The black-and-white photographs of visitors to the exhibition are mine or

Trilogy of storytelling

Trilogy of storytelling

A COUPLE of years ago, I shared my thoughts on storytelling with a few ArtVoice members, based on the ideas of John Berger, Walter Benjamin and, more recently, Teju Cole. Revisiting Berger and Benjamin after many years, and discovering Cole’s Blind Spot, prompted me to rethink how art and

Wan Tan Mee at abstraKK

Wan Tan Mee at abstraKK

I HAD wanted to meet artist Ch’ng Kiah Kiean ever since I saw his works featured in the “WAA! Online Auction” in 2020. Hosted by the Penang Water Colour Society (PCWS) during the Covid lockdown, the auction was a creative initiative that helped keep the state’s art scene

Green Prospects Asia: Recollections and reflections

Green Prospects Asia: Recollections and reflections

GREEN PROSPECTS ASIA was launched in 2011 with a simple belief: that sustainability, environmental responsibility and resource efficiency would become increasingly important to the future of Asia. We sought to create a publication that could bring together ideas, policies, technologies and practical experiences, making these issues accessible to a wider

Lanna 2026: Honoured and grateful

Lanna 2026: Honoured and grateful

TWO CALLS from my good friend, senior artist Wattana Wattanpun, last month lifted my spirits to a crescendo. In the first, he told me excitedly that 92-year-old Inson Wongsam, one of Thailand’s National Artists, wanted to buy one of my Lanna prints and that he would personally

Moderation at the Meridian: How it evolved

Moderation at the Meridian: How it evolved

IN 1974, after I read Albert Camus’ The Rebel, one paragraph became singularly important to me: One might think that a period which, within 50 years, uproots, enslaves or kills 70 million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt understood. In more ingenuous times, when

Wattana Wattanapun reflects on his “Women in Art”

Wattana Wattanapun reflects on his “Women in Art”

ON NEW YEAR’S DAY 2020, just before Covid struck, I was sightseeing in Chiang Mai, visiting “non-touristy” places. It was my second visit to a city that had been etched in my memory from 1969, when I was 16. This landmark visit as a teenager was part of