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Written by neu / Translated by AURA ART
Vipoo Srivilasa, an artist, curator and artistic activist from Thailand based in Melbourne, Australia. He mainly produces sculptures using ceramics conveying universal messages through cross-cultural experiences in a playful and unique style.
Vipoo was born in Bangkok, moved from Thailand to Australia in 1997, studied pottery at Monash University in Melbourne, and later earned a master's degree from the University of Tasmania.
In Bangkok, pottery is usually not the main departments of study, and many students choose it as their secondary majors, but he chose pottery as his only major. Through this choice, he decided to devote his life to the production of ceramic works.
"Ceramics can itself be a form of art and a material for expression."
It was what he learned when he got his degree.
Having built his career from scratch in Melbourne, he mainly presents his works produced in Australia in Thailand.
You may be noticed in the work with an expert unrelated to art. It's an idea, not a skill. Sometimes people who have first joined to the workshop make wonderful works. As a more shared artistic practice, he cooked Thai food and served the audience at Roop-Rote-Ruang (Taste Touch Tell) at the Sydney Asian Centre for Contemporary Art 4A in 2008. In each course he talked about how he moved from Thailand to Australia, and when people finished their meals, they could see the pictures on the plates.
In this way, he shares his unique ideas with the audience using a method of pottery.
Vipoo's website for the performance
http://vipoo.com/projects#/roop-rote-ruang-2008-1/
Vipoo often touches not only on Australian culture, but also on political and social issues such as the environment, migration and minorities.
In The "THE MARRIAGE OF SANG THONG" in Subhashok the Arts Centre in 2019, he was inspired Australian legal authorization on a same-sex marriage and mentioned on LGBTQ. He exhibited a Bronze sculptures expressing 10 important incidents related to a same-sex marriage, such as the Stonewall Upraising, and in a work called "1956" he introduces a follow-up hoping that same-sex marriage will be approved in Thailand.
Vipoo Srivilasa
http://vipoo.com
Born in 1969, Bangkok
Migrated to Australia in 1997
Education
1998 Master of Fine Art and Design (ceramic), University of Tasmania, Hobart
1997 Graduate Diploma of Arts (ceramic), Monash University, Melbourne
1994 Bachelor of Art (ceramic), Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand
Awards received
2018
Winner, National Sports Museum Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellowship
2017
Winner, 44th Muswellbrook Art Prize Ceramic
Highly Commended, Deakin Small Sculpture Award
People Choice Award, Clunes Ceramic Award
Honourable Mentions, Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award
Grant, Career development, Australian Council for the Arts
2015
Grant, Australian Embassy Seoul Grant for cultural exchange project
Grant, Skill and Arts Development Grant, Australia Council for the Arts
2014
Winner, Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award
Grant, Lighton International Artists Exchange Program, USA
Grant, Australia - Korea Foundation
2013
Grant, Cool Japan Fund
Grant, Arts Victoria, International Program
Grant, Skill and Arts Development Grant, Australian Council for the Arts
2012
Grant, Copyright Agency Limited, Creative Industries Fund
Grant, Australia – Thailand Institute, The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Grant, Australia International Cultural Council
2011
Grant, Arts Victoria, International Program
Grant, New Work Developmen, Australian Council for the Arts
2009
Grant, Skill and Arts Development Grant, Australian Council for the Arts
2008
Grant, International Program, Arts Victoria
Winner, Suncoast Clayworkers Sculpture Award
2007
Grant, New Work Development, Australian Council for the Arts
Honourable Mention, World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea
2005
Grant, Australia – Thailand Institute, The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Grant, Arts Victoria, International Program
2004
Winner, Artful Teapot Award, Paynter Gallery
2003
Winner, Golden Teapot Award, Morpeth Gallery
2001
Winner, City of Redcliffe Excellence in Craft Award
Merit Prize, Port hacking Potters Group Awards (paperclay
1999
Highly Commended, Tasmania Potters Society Annual Exhibition
1998
Recipient, Honorary Research Associate, School of Art University of Tasmania
Winner, Northcote Decoration Award, Tasmania Potters' Society Annual Exhibition
Main solo exhibitions
2018
Everyday Shrines, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria
Everyday Shrines, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2017
Happy Together, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
This Might Be The Place, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
Super Hero, Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne
2016
Deity, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
Red-Eared Slider, Adler Subhashok Gallery, Bangkok
2015
Happy Land, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
Collective Reef, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2014
Equilibrium, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2013
How to Make a Million Before Dinner, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
Red Room, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2012
Thai Na Town - Little Oz, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney; Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Indigo Tomb, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Indigo Monster, La Lanta Fine Art, Bangkok
Ready to Play, Maunsell Wickes Galleries, Sydney
2011
Symbols, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2010
Aftermath, collaboration project with the Pottery Workshop, PWS Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
2009
Indigo Kingdom, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne Colonies, Surapon Gallery, Bangkok
Colonies, Surapon Gallery, Bangkok
Monster by Hands: collaboration project with Thai Celadon factory, Pong Noi Art Space, Chiang Mai
2008
For The Future, Über Gallery, Melbourne
Roop, Root, Ruang (Taste-touch-tell) 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2006
My Self : My Other, Über Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Lai Krarm, Surapon Gallery, Bangkok
2003
Mythical Monster, Freeman 3 Gallery, Hobart
2002
Action Man, Haecceity Arts Gallery, Melbourne
2001
The Coral Show, Haecceity Art Gallery, Melbourne
2000
Ocean Fantasies, Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design Gallery, Adelaide
S&M Mermaid, Object Store, Sydney
1998
Ocean Fantasies, Side Space Gallery, Hobart
1997
Mermaids, State Craft Gallery, Melbourne
Main collection
Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
Australian Arts Bank, Melbourne
Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
Bluestone Collection, Melbourne
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Victoria
City of Darebin, Victoria
City of Port Phillip, Victoria
College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, New South Wales
Deakin University, Melbourne
Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria
Gold Coast City Gallery
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Victoria
Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, the, Queensland
Manningham City Council, Victoria
Margaret Lawrence Australian Ceramic Collection, Victoria
Muswellbrook Shire City Council, NSW
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Rockhamton Art Gallery, Queensland
School of Rural Health, Melbourne University, Shepparton, VIC
Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland
Whitehorse City Council., Victoria
Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales
Asia
Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, China
Australia Embassy, Seoul, Korea
Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Korea
Korean Ceramic Foundation, Korea
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
North America
The Rosenfield Collection, Dallas, Texas, USA
The Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, Canada
College of Arts and Humanities, University of Hawaii, Hawaii
Kamm Teapot Foundation, California, USA
UK
Craft Council, London, The United Kingdom
