Gretchen Liu

Gretchen Liu is a Singapore-based writer and independent scholar with a focus on visual culture and heritage. A former journalist and book editor, she commissioned one of the first works 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, published in 1987. She is the author of 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 its in-house historian and went on to write several books on its history. Most recently, she has been researching the life and times of her father-in-law, the artist Liu Kang.

Gretchen Liu adalah penulis dan akademisi independen yang berbasis di Singapura, dengan fokus pada budaya visual dan warisan. Sebelumnya, ia bekerja sebagai jurnalis dan editor buku, dan pernah mendapatkan komisi untuk salah satu karya pertama tentang warisan visual Singapura, A Vision of the Past: A History of Early Photography in Singapore and Malaya: The Photographs of G. R. Lambert & Co, 1880–1910 oleh John Falconer, yang diterbitkan pada 1987. Ia juga merupakan penulis 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), dan Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819–2000 (1999). Pada awal 1990-an, ia terlibat dalam restorasi Hotel Raffles sebagai sejarawan internal, dan kemudian menulis beberapa buku mengenai sejarah hotel tersebut. Baru-baru ini, ia meneliti kehidupan dan masa berkarya ayah mertuanya, seniman Liu Kang.