Daniel Komala

Founder and Non-Executive Chairman

Daniel Komala is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Larasati Auctioneers, which he launched in 2000 to promote Asian and Southeast Asian fine art. He has succesfully grown Larasati into an auction house with a global presence in many Asian and European countries.

Daniel was introduced to the arts in early chidlhood by his father, an avid collector of Indonesian modern paintings, and started his own collection in 1993. He was appointed as an appraiser for the art collection of the Palace of the Republic of Indonesia in 2004 and was the only auctioneer in Asia invited to speak at the ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit of the art trade and cultural exchange in Asia in 2009. He is currently a committee member of the Sudjojono Centre, Jakarta, set up to commemorate the works of S. Sudjojono, one of the founding fathers of modern Southeast Asian paintings.

Daniel also founded One East Asia, a Singapore-based art management organization in April 2010. It is dedicated to enriching the appreciation of Southeast Asian Art globally through exhibitions in Singapore and London, international art fairs and not-for-profit education events. One East Asia is the sole, officially appointed represerntative of Sudjojono Centre in Singapore. He is now the non-executive Chairman of One East Asia.

He graduated from University College London majoring in statistics, computer science and economics.

Daniel is listed as one of the visiting lecturers at LaSalle College of the Arts, Asian Art Histories.

On 2^nd Anniversary of Asian Art in London, Daniel Komala was invited by Sotheby's Institute of Art to join its panel of experts to discuss and debate ways of increasing the visibility of Asian modern & contemporary art in the London art scene. This panel discussion was live-streamed internationally by Sotheby's Institute: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=10155199953689072

In May 2019, Daniel was again invited by Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, this time as a guest lecturer on the Asian Art Business Summer Course, where he gave a well-received series of talks about the Southeast Asian art market.

On 22 July 2020, Daniel was invited to be one of the guest speakers in The Secrets V.I.P Class, a TV program host by CNN Indonesia on "Art Investment in Pandemic Situation".

On 10 September 2022, Daniel joined the panel discussion "The Art Market: Opportunities and Consequences" in conjuction with the exhibition titled "KONVERGENSI" (CONVERGENCE) held at the Indonesia's Institute of Art, Jogjakarta.

Veronica Howe

Director/Chief Consultant

Having been in the art industry for more than 20 years, Veronica has extensive experience in the art scene encompassing: a six-year run managing an established fine art gallery that was conferred The Best Gallery for Local Art at the Singapore Concierge Choice Awards ’99 organised by WHERE Singapore and Visa Gold, having held key positions in local art societies, being on the committees behind Singapore Art Galleries’ Association and the now-defunct ARTSingapore, collaborating with the Singapore Tourism Board and National Art Council to establish Singapore’s first premium art fair in Southeast Asia and regularly contributing to the Hong Kong quarterly Artgazine with her column Art n Investment.

Since the inception of One East Asia in 2010, she has spearheaded the gallery’s programmes. She has also helped the organisation to foster professional relationships with different partners, institutions and companies, particularly in London, to further One East Asia’s vision of promoting the appreciation of Southeast Asian art internationally.

She graduated with Honours from California University, USA where she majored in Art with a Minor in Business.

Viv Lawes

Senior Consultant, London

Viv Lawes is a senior lecturer at the City & Guilds of London Art School, where she teaches the History of Decorative Style c. 1400-1950 and the History of Modern Art in the West.

She is a visiting lecturer at Sotheby's Institute, where she teaches on the Art Business and East Asian Art MA programmes and the Asian Art semester course. She also lectures on Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art at the Institut d'Etudes Supérieures des Arts (IESA), London. In July 2014 she became an accredited lecturer for the National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies (NADFAS), which has regional associations in the UK, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand with a membership of over 80,000 people.

For the last 13 years Viv has also worked as an arts journalist, writing for many publications, including The Art Newspaper, Art + Auction, Country Life, The Guardian and the ATG. She is the author of a forthcoming book, Horse: A History of Equine Bronze Sculpture, published by the Sladmore Gallery, London.

Viv also sits on the Marketing board of the Ben Uri Museum, London, as Art Market advisor. She is one of the judges in the Art Gemini Prize 2014, an international art competition that will be showcased at the inaugural Singapore Art Fair in November 2014.

She studied for her BA in History/ History of Art at York University, followed by MA in Fine and Decorative Art at Sotheby’s Institute, London (Distinction). She is working part-time towards a PhD at the University of East Anglia on the teaching practices and institutional developments in post-war British art school education, for which she is affiliated with the Tate Gallery’s research department.