Emil Goh was an artist, designer, traveller, foodie, people person. He was born in Malaysia on 6 March 1966 and studied psychology (Newscastle University) and then Fine Art (Sydney University), developing his practice across different media, particularly video and photography. Emil exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally. He moved to Seoul in 2004. At age 43 on 7 September 2009, he passed away due to a heart attack at his apartment in Seoul.
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
https://www.annamatic.com/blog/
Last Tuesday, the 8th, I was sitting upstairs in MMMG cafe, hunched over at my laptop working through some revisions when my e-mail sounded a new incoming message. The little red email icon bounced in the dock, but I ignored it as I concentrated on the project at hand.
By Wendy Gan
Associate Professor School of English, University of Hong Kong
9 September 2009
Emil was like the brother I never had. It was the similarity in our upbringing – coming from middle-class English-speaking families in S.E. Asia and going to a similar kind of school. It was also the similarity in our instincts. We had both felt in our youth the need to leave Asia and spread our wings. We both loved cities and when we net in London in 1997, it was that city that cemented our friendship – walks through Islington, Portobello, Notting Hill. This being Emil, the food of London also played its part. Brick Lane for bagels and baked cheesecake, Borough market for the wholesale food stalls, Tower Bridge to eat at one of Conran's restaurants during a special lunch offer. We spent three happy months enjoying London, food, art, music and each other's company.
ART LIFE Feb 04, 2011
In 2009 our friend Emil Goh died suddenly of a heart attack aged just 43. He was widely admired and respected in the Australian art scene as an outstanding artist, curator, writer and designer, but mostly as an enormously good-natured and kind-hearted friend. An enthusiastic supporter of fellow artists and writers Emil was an early contributor to The Art Life, filing numerous reports from various locations from Venice and London to Melbourne and Sydney.