VIPOO SRIVILASA
As a Thai-born Australian artist, I am interested in culture shift and migration experienceâ how a change of culture and place affects people. My work explores contemporary social, political, and ethical issues that come from my experience of living in both Australia and Thailand.
I work predominantly in ceramics but also produce animation, works on paper, and mixed media sculptures. I am interested in expanding my art practice into a community-based art form involving and connecting with other members of the international art community.
My current interest is in blue-and-white ceramics. I use the blue and white color combination as a reference to the Chinese porcelain exported to Europe hundreds of years ago, but also to my own migration from Thailand to Australia, from east to west. â Vipoo Srivilasa
The Patience Flowers Series
An eighteenth-century Meissen Snowball Blossoms Teapot was the inspiration for Vipoo Srivilasaâs âPatience Flowersâ series. The Meissen piece, decorated with hundreds of hand-painted, three-dimensional blossoms, impressed Srivilasa with the amount of patience, concentration, and skill that was required to create it and inspired him to produce his own work with a similar resonance. The âPatience Flowersâ series was first begun during his residency in Jingdezhen, China, in late 2010.
Profile
Vipooâs development as a professional artist began when he moved from Thailand to Australia in 1997 to undertake a Master of Fine Art and Design (Ceramics) at the University of Tasmania, where he later accepted a six-month Honorary Research Associate position. Now working and living in Melbourne, Srivilasa works predominantly in ceramics but also produces animation, works on paper, and mixed media sculptures.
In 2002, he was selected by Craft Australia to represent the country at SOFA CHICAGO (Sculpture, Objects, & Functional Art), in the exhibition ATTITUDE: New Australian Ceramics. Since then he has achieved widespread recognition in the ceramics field, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region and more recently in Europe, the United States, and Canada.
In addition to exhibiting his work, Srivilasa is actively involved in directing and participating in international cultural exchange projects aimed at creating opportunities for contact between artists working in clay. In 2012, as a result of his success with these community-building programs, he was elected as a member of the International Academy of Ceramics, the foremost organization representing the interests of ceramicists worldwide.
Vipoo Srivilasa
Born in Bangkok, Thailand
Lives and Works in Melbourne, Australia
Education
1998 Master of Fine Art and Design (ceramic), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
1997 Graduate Diploma of Arts (ceramic), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
1994 Bachelor of Art (ceramic), Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand
Scholarship and Awards
2014 Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award
Lighton International Artists Exchange Program
AustraliaâKorea Foundation
2013 Cool Japan Fund, Japanese government
Arts Victoria, International Program Grant
Australian Council for the Arts, Skill and Arts Development General
2012 Creative Industries Fund, Copyright Agency Limited
AustraliaâThailand Institute Project Grant
Australia International Cultural Council Grants
2011 Arts Victoria, International Program Grant
Australian Council for the Arts, New Work Development Grant
2009 Australian Council for the Arts, Skill and Arts Development General
2008 Arts Victoria, International Program Grant
Sculpture Award, Suncoast Clayworkers Awards, Queensland
Finalist, Toyota Travel Award
2007 Australian Council for the Arts, New Work Development Grant
Honorable Mention World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea
2005 AustraliaâThailand Institute Project Grant
Arts Victoria, International Program Grant
2004 First (Acquisitive) and Third Prize, Artful Teapot Award, Paynter Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
Second Prize, Golden Teapot Award
2004, Morpeth Gallery, Morpeth, New South Wales
2003 First Prize, Golden Teapot Award, Morpeth Gallery, Morpeth, New South Wales
2001 First Prize (ceramic hand-building), City of Redcliffe Excellence in Craft Award, Queensland
Merit Prize (paperclay), Port Hacking Potters Group Awards, New South Wales
1999 Highly Commended, Tasmania Potters Society Annual Exhibition, Tasmania
1998 Honorary Research Associate, School of Art University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania
Northcote Decoration Award, Tasmania Pottersâ Society Annual Exhibition, Tasmania
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Happy Land, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2013 How to Make a Million Before Dinner, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Red Room, Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012 Indigo Tomb, Nellie Caston Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Thai Na Town â Little Oz, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney and Chulalongkorn
Universityâs Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Indigo Monster, La Lanta Fine Art, Bangkok, Thailand
Ready to Play, Maunsell Wickes Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2011 Symbols, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2010 Aftermath, collaboration project with the Pottery Workshop, PWS Gallery, Jingdezhen, China
2009 Indigo Kingdom, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Colonies, Surapon Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2008 For The Future, Ăber Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Roop, Root, Ruang, (Taste-touch-tell) 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia
2006 My Self : My Other, Ăber Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2005 Lai Krarm, Surapon Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2004 People I Have Met, Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne, Australia
2003 Mythical Monster, Freeman 3 Gallery, Hobart, Australia
2002 Action Man, Haecceity Arts Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2001 The Coral Show, Haecceity Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2000 Ocean Fantasies, Jam Factory Contemporary Craft and Design Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
1998 Ocean Fantasies, Side Space Gallery, Hobart, Australia
1997 Mermaids, State Craft Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Group Exhibitions
2015 GrowlerFest, Lawrence, KS
GrowlerFest, Cummington, MA
Selected Works from Current Projects, Ferrin Contemporary, New York Ceramics & Glass Fair, NY
Made in China: The New Export Ware, Ferrin Contemporary, New York Ceramics & Glass Fair, NY
Everything is All White, Kasher|Potamkin, New York, NY
2014 Made in China: The New Export Ware, Ferrin Contemporary at Independent Art Projects, North Adams, MA
Made in China: The New Export Ware, Ferrin Contemporary, Miami Project, Miami, FL
artKamp: indigo mass, Independent Art Project, North Adams, MA
Earth and Fire: South East Asian Ceramic, Workhouse Art Centre, Lorton, VA
BIG Ceramic, Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 23rd Biennale Internationale de CĂ©ramique deVallauris, Vallauris, France
COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London, Great Britain Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
Inquiring Finds, Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, Honolulu, HI
Mythology Meets Archetype, Northern Clay Centre, Minneapolis, MN
50 Shades of Brown, Gallerysmith, Melbourne, Australia
Adrian Sassoon, The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht Exhibition Centre, Netherlands
Edwina Corlette Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia
2013 The Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea
SEXSE@Medalta, Medalta Gallery, AB, Canada
Ceramic Top 40, Ferrin Contemporary and Red Star Studios, Kansas City, KA
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney, Australia
3×3 Project, The National Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
New Blue and White, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Represented by Ferrin Gallery, New York Ceramic Fair, New York, NY
The Hua Krathi Project, RMIT University School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Modern Masters, International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany
Crafting Design/Designing Craft: 40 Years of JamFactory, JamFactory Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
2012 Ferrin Gallery at Art Miami, Midtown, Miami, FL New World: Timeless Visions, NM
Museum of Art Santa Fe, NM
Jakarta Contemporary Ceramic Biennale 2012, Nort Art Space, Jakarta, Indonesia
Adrian Sassoon, Pavilion of Art & Design, London, England, UK
Masterpiece London, Adrian Sassoon, The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, England, UK
COLLECT, Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, Saatchi Gallery, London, England, UK
Pacific Rim Connection, Azuma Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Pottery Workshop 25th Anniversary, Seattle Design Center, Seattle, WA
On Kindness: an Australia India Culture Exchange, Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Man and Beast, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, Australia
Cross Path, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, Australia
Thai Trends from Localism to Internationalism, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
2011 Presented by John Natsoulas Gallery, SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL Ceramic Annual of America, San Francisco, CA
The Pursuit of Porcelain, Ferrin Gallery, SOFA New York, NY
In Family Unity â Unity of the World, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, Russia
East-West Ceramic Collaboration, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Monoa, HI
2010 International Ceramics Competition of L’ALcora, LâAlcora Ceramics Museum, Castellon, Spain
A New Insight of International Contemporary Ceramics, Degas Arts Space, Shanghai, China
Elegant Monsters, Gallerie Philosophie, Taipei, Taiwan
Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, The Art Centre, Queensland, Australia
Ceramic Now?, Whitehorse Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
Hobart Art Prize, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
Anna Pappas Gallery, Depot Gallery, Sydney, Australia
In the Family Unity â Unity of the World, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
2009 Blue-White, White-Blue, Galerie Handwerk, MĂŒnchen, Germany
The Ring of Fire, Ayala Museum, Makati, Philippines
At the Crossroad of Civilization, Yingge Ceramic Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Pressing Matter, Cheongju Biennale, Cheongju, South Korea
Super Normality, J Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Zibo international Ceramic Art Expo, Zibo, China
Trans-Pot, Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Recent Acquisitions: City of Port Phillip, The Gallery, St. Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Professional Experience
2014 Project Leader, artKamp, international artist residency, Project Art, Cummington, Massachusetts, USA
Invited Artist, South East Asian Ceramic Symposium, Workhouse Art Centre, Lorton, VA
Ferment, Long Beach Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Invited Artist, Bleach Masterclass, Melbouren Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Canada
Invited Artist in Residence, Northern Clay Centre, Minneapolis, OH
2013 Invited Artist in Residence, Medalta International Artists in Residence, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada
Invited Artist in Residence, Happy Lucky Site, porcelain factory, Arita, Japan
Invited Artist in Residence, Cicada Press, College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Invited artist, Mentoring Camp, The 7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2013, South Korea
Visiting Artist, Scotch College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2012 Invited Artist in Residence, Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China Panel Artist, Australian Ceramic Triennials, Adelaide, Australia
Visiting Artist, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Visiting Artist, Rachasuda College (hearing disability college), Bangkok, Thailand
Artist in Residence, Sacred Heart Primary School, Melbourne, Australia
Artist in Residence, St Margaret’s Junior School, Melbourne, Australia
Invited Artist, Little Treasure, Shapperton Art Museum, Shapperton, Victoria, Australia
2011 Invited Artist in resident, University of Hawaii, HI
Invited Artist in Residence, Medalta International Artists in Residence, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada
Visiting Artist, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Visiting Artist, Wesley College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Artist in Residence, Doncaster Gardens PS, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Artist in Residence, Numurkah Primary School, Numurkah, Victoria, Australia
2010 Artist in Residence, Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China
Participating Artist, Sanbao International Art Festival, Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute, Jingdezhen, China Visiting artist, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Artist in Residence, Scotch College, Beaconhills College, Victoria, Australia
Artist in Residence, Moree Christian School, Moree, New South Wales, Australia
2009 Artist in Residence, Thai Celadon factory, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Artist in Residence, Huaguang Ceramic, Zibo, China
Visiting Artist, Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanking, China
Guest Demonstrator, The Ring of Fire, Ayala Museum, Makati, Philippines
Guest Demonstrator, The Crossroad of Civilization, Yingge Ceramic Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Guest Demonstrator, Pressing Matter, Cheongju Biennale, South Korea
Guest Demonstrator, Spring Fever Clay Festival, Queensland, Australia
Guest Demonstrator, Australian Ceramics Triennial, Sydney, Australia
Exhibition Co-ordinator, At the Crossroad of Civilization, Yingge Ceramic Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Keynote Speaker, Art Education Victoria Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia
2007 Master Artist, Clay Edge: 7th Gulgong Ceramic Festival, Gulgong, New South Wales
Visiting Artist at Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
2006 Guest Demonstrator at VERGE, 11th National Ceramics Conference, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Organizer and manager, Clay Alchemy, cultural exchange project between Thailand and Australia Exhibition Panelist, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2005 Conference Presenter, Art Education Victoria Annual Conference, Victoria, Australia
Exhibition Panelist, Craft Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Guest Lecturer, Rachasuda College (hearing disability college), Bangkok, Thailand
2004 Selection Panelist, FRESH
2004 Student Award, Craft Victoria, Victoria, Australia
Conference Presenter, Art Education Victoria Annual Conference, Victoria, Australia
Teacher, Holmglen TAFE, Victoria, Australia
Project Leader, Clay Alchemy, a cultural exchange between Thai and Australian artists
2003 Tour Leader, Thailand Pottery, Craft and Cuisine Tour, Where? Conference Presenter, Art Education Victoria Annual Conference, Victoria, Australia
Visiting Artist, Mentone Girls’ Secondary College, Mentone, Victoria, Australia
Guest Lecturer, Silapakorn University, Prasanmit University, Bangkok
2002 Visiting Artist, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO
Guest Lecturer, SOFA Chicago, âATTITUDE: New Australian Ceramics,â Chicago, IL
Guest Lecturer, “Craft as a Career” for Craft Victoria, Australia
1999 Access Tenant, Ceramic studio, Jam Factory, South Australia
1998 Artist in Residence, College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia
1995 Product Development Manager, Nattawit Co., LTD (ceramic export company), Bangkok, Thailand
1993 Freelance Fashion Accessories Designer, Bangkok, Thailand
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