Portrait of NIRMALA DUTT SHANMUGHALINGAM, who passed away on December 5,2016. She was 75. Pictured here in front her mixed-media work, Africa II (1980). Courtesy OUR ArtProjects, Kuala Lumpur. Nirmala Dutt (1941–2016) was a pioneering figure in Malaysian contemporary art and one of the few female artists to have emerged in the local art scene during the 1970s. […]