Gan Chin Lee, a member of the ‘f Klub,’ has emerged in recent years as a major figurative artist focusing on anxieties of urban living, the quiet women, common people in food outlets outside and the migrant community. This 2010 work of a woman seated on a stool looking a mite anxious was in his first solo, Soliloquy, at the now defunct Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, in 2011. In November-December 2015, he had a solo at the Richard Koh Fine Arts titled in-between, on the lives of migrant workers on the fringes like in the Selayang wholesale market. A finalist in the Saksi competition in 2003, he got into the winning circle big-time when he was one of the five who won the Malaysian Emerging Artist Award (MEAA) in 2009, the others being Mohd Al-Khuzairie Ali, Shaifuddin Mamat a.k.a. Poodien, Samsudin Wahab and Bakir Baharom. After his Diploma in Illustration at the One Academy of Communication Design, he went to China for his Advanced Studies in Mural Painting (2005) and Masters in Fine Art (2008, where he also won the Graduate Creation bronze prize) at the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In 2010, he won the Platinum Award by the One Academy, where he lectures now. In the Henry Butcher (Young Contempo) auction, Chin Lee’s work, Status Anxiety VI (2010), from the Soliloquy exhibition, sold for a premium of RM7,150 and in the March 2015 auction, Standing Lady With Flower, RM2,688.