Exhibition
Vipoo Srivilasa – Always better together
23 Nov 2022 – 17 Dec 2022
OLSEN SYDNEY
Over a career spanning more than 20 years,
Vipoo Srivilasa, a Thai-born Melbourne-based artist has created intricate and elaborate artworks
that reflect his bicultural experience living between Australia and Thailand.
Working predominantly in ceramics, though his expansive practice also
incorporates mediums of paper, mix media, bronze, public art and performance
art.
Srivilasa’s works celebrate the
intersections and overlaps between our cultural, social, philosophical, and
environmental ideologies with a mix of playfully and reverence, iconography and
ornamentalism.
Vipoo has exhibited extensively both
internationally and throughout Australia, including Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston; Saatchi Gallery, London; Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Korea, Henan Museum,
China and the National Gallery of Thailand.
His work is held in national and
international collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art
Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, the
Craft Council, UK and Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Korea.
Vipoo holds a Master of Fine Art and Design
from the University of Tasmania. He was awarded the 2021 Ceramic Artist of the
Year by The American Ceramic Society, USA.
