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Credit Line: Gift of Ian Holliday 2023, Collection of SMU

Dawei Lay (b. 1982, Tanintharyi Region) graduated from Yangon's State School of Fine Arts in 2001. Since becoming a full-time artist in 2010, he has worked almost exclusively on the theme of female farm workers through two series titled Women Power and Survival.

The SMU Art Collection has over 70 paintings from Myanmar donated by Ian Holliday. A specialist in Burmese politics, Holliday assembled the Thukhuma Collection which comprises of Burmese paintings largely dating from the transitional decade of the 2010s, presenting multiple artistic perspectives on a society in reform. On display at School of Social Sciences and Li Ka Shing Library, the gifted paintings depict the people, culture and land, from the streets of Yangon and rural peripheries to political icons and indigenous deities.