SINGAPORE – Employees of an art investment firm which closed suddenly may never see their owed salaries, but lawyers urged them to file salary claims and prioritise their job hunt.
Art Works, which ran an art investment advisory and a gallery at One Holland Village, went into voluntary liquidation on Oct 30, leaving behind questions over unpaid staff wages, artists’ fees, and client-owned art pieces still left in its care.
One of Art Work’s 15 employees told The Straits Times that two of the three company directors – all foreign nationals – have left Singapore and changed their phone numbers. ST’s calls and texts to a number linked to one of them went unanswered.
Ms Viviene Sandhu, lawyer and co-managing partner of Clifford…