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Artist Richie Fawcett’s story reads like a blurb from the back cover of a swashbuckling adventure novel. In it, the main protagonist throws in a promising career in archaeology for the chaos and uncertainty of travel to the other side of the world with just the clothes on his back and a few bob to spare.
Fawcett’s tale has spanned continents across land and sea in which he’s witnessed (among many things) the emergence of now legendary music scenes and DJs in Europe, grappled with unbridled urbanisation and development in Asia, and visited the remnants of ancient civilisations in Central America.
In Fawcett’s adopted home of Vietnam, however, he’s perhaps best known for igniting Saigon’s nascent mixology scene back in the early 2010s shortly after arriving here. But it’s for his art on the eve of the launch of his latest book Cocktail Art of Saigon Drinks Manual Volume 2 that he’s now making a name for himself.
“It’s my art that I really want to talk about, not so much the bars,” says the 47 year-old from England when we catch up at his studio and speakeasy, The Studio Saigon.
That’s not to say drinks are off the agenda, however: “Gin?” he enquires moments after I walk through the studio door at his second-floor Ly Tu Trong Street address in the centre of Saigon.
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