Vipoo Srivilasa

1969

Born in Bangkok, Thailand

1997

Lives and works in Australia

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

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

2019

Shortlisted, Whitegold International Ceramic Prizes, UK

2018

Winner, National Sports Museum Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellowship

2017

Winner, 44th Muswellbrook Art Prize Ceramic
Highly Commended, Deakin Small Sculpture
Award Australian Council for the Arts, Skill and Arts Development General Grant

2016

National Sports Museum Basil Sellers Creative Arts Fellowship
Shortlisted, Fleurieu Art Prize, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
Finalist, Basil Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

2015

Australian Embassy Seoul, Grant for cultural exchange project
Australia Council for the Arts, Development Grants Individuals and Groups
Finalist, Basil Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne

2014

Winner, Gold Coast International Ceramic Award
Lighton International Artists Exchange Program, USA
Australia - Korea 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 Australia – Thailand Institute Project Grant
Australia International Cultural Council Grants

2011

Arts Victoria, International Program Grant
Australian Council for the Arts, New Work Development 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

Australia – Thailand 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 Potters’ Society Annual Exhibition, Tasmania

COLLECTIONS

Australia

Australian Arts Bank

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide

Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Victoria

City of Darebin, Victoria

City of Port Phillip, Victoria

College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, Sydney

Deakin University, Melbourne

Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland

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, New South Wales

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

National Sports Museum, Melbourne

Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra

Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland

Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland

School of Rural Health,MelbourneUniversity, Shepparton, Victoria

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

Korean Ceramic Foundation, Korea

Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Australia Embassy, Seoul, Korea

Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Korea

North America

College of Arts and Humanities, University of Hawaii, Hawaii, USA

Kamm Teapot Foundation, California, USA

The Shaw International Centre for Contemporary Ceramics, Medalta, Canada

The Rosenfield Collection, Texas, USA

Europe

Craft Council, London, United Kingdom

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

'Fresh from the Studio', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane (online)

2019

'The Marriage of Sang Thong', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
The Marriage of Sangthong, S.A.C. Subhashok The Arts Centre, Bangkok
'They Fill Your Heart Without Trying', Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2018

Everyday Shrine,Gippsland City Council Art Gallery, Victoria
Everyday Shrine, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

2017

'#happy_together', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
'This Might Be The Place', Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide

2016

'Red-Eared Slider', Alder Subhashok Gallery, Bangkok
'Deity', Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
'Animalier', Nicolas Project, Melbourne

2015

'Happy Land', Scott Livesby 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

'Indigo Tomb', Nellie Caston Gallery, Melbourne
'Thai Na Town - Little Oz', 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney and The Art Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
'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
'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

2004

'People I Have Met', Skepsi on Swanston, Melbourne

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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020

Miffy and Friends, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane

2019

Finalist, Deakin Small Sculpture Award, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne
All That’s Gold Does Glitter, Venetian Macao, China
Gaia Reborn, Urban Nation, Project M, Berlin
The Great Race, Clay Art Centre, New York
Tea for Twenty, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, TAS

2018

Adrian Sassoon, Pavilion of Art & Design London, UK
Australian Collection, Queensland Art gallery, Brisbane
Obsessed: Compelled to make, Australian Design Centre, NSW
Hyphenated: The Substation, Melbourne
Lucky Hall, The Gallery at Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, VIC
Devil in the Detail, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, VIC
Finalist, Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture, NSW
Finalist, The Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Prize (KAAFP)
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane

2017

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Edwina Corlette Gallery
Subhashok The Arts Centre, Art Stage Singapore
Muswellbrook Art Prize Works, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, NSW
Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
'Empty Vessels', Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
'Animal Kingdom', The Johnston Collection, VIC
'Deakin Small Sculpture Award', Deakin University Art Gallery, VIC
'Super Hero', Kingston Arts Centre, Melbourne

2016

'Sugar Spin - You Me and Everything', Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
The First Central China International Ceramics Biennale, Henan Museum, China
Fleurieu Art Prize, The Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
Basil Sellers Art Prize, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
15 Artists Exhibition, Redcliffe Art gallery, Queensland
'Sculpting Stories', Gallery Oldham, London
'The Blue and White: The Impact of The New', Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
'Function, Form and Fantasy: Ceramics from the Dr. Robert and Deanna Harris Burger Collection', The Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
'Adrian Sassoon', Masterpiece London, The Royal Chelsea Hospital, London
'Animal', Nicolas Project, Melbourne
'Art Taipei', S.A.G Gallery, Taipei World Trade Centre
'The Texture of Sensation', CC Gallery, Taiwan
'Wired Ceramic', Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria

2015

'Beyond Limitations', Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Korea
'Collisions: Cross-Cultural Collaborations', Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
'Storm in a Teacup', Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney
'More Love Hours', The Ian Potter Museum, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
'Imagining Ned', Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
'Everything is all White', Kasher Potamkin, New York
'New York Ceramic and Glass Fair', Bohemian National Hall, New York
'Leaders', Craft Victoria, Melbourne
'Two of a Kind', Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
'Adrian Sassoon', COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London
'C H O I C E : Contemporary Australian Ceramics', Beaver Gallery, Canberra

2014

Melbourne Art Fair, Edwina Corlette Gallery
'Contemporary Porcelain', Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland
'artKamp: indigo mass', Independent Art Project, Massachusetts, USA
'Made In China', Independent Art Project, Massachusetts, USA
Earth and Fire: South ‘East Asian Ceramic’, Workhouse Art Centre, Virginia, USA
'BIG Ceramic', Yarra Gallery, Melbourne
The XXIIIrd International Biennale of Vallauris Biennale, France
Adrian Sassoon, Masterpiece London, The Royal Chelsea Hospital, London
Adrian Sassoon, COLLECT, Saatchi Gallery, London Inquiring Finds, Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, Hawaii
'Mythology Meets Archetype', Northern Clay Centre, Minneapolis, USA
'Important Exhibition of Australian Ceramic', Mossgreen Gallery, VIC
'Stanthorpe Art Festival', Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery, QLD
'50 Shades of Brown', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
Adrian Sassoon, The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht Exhibition Centre, The Netherlands

2013

The Gyeonggi International Ceramic Bienale, Icheon, Korea
'[email protected]', Medalta Gallery, Canada
'Ceramic Top 40', Ferrin Contemporary Art Fair, Edwina Corlette Gallery
'3x3 Project', The National Art Gallery, Bangkok
Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
'The Hua Krathi Project', RMIT University School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
'Modern Masters', International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany

2012

'New World: Timeless Visions', New Mexico Museum of Art Santa Fe, New Mexico
'Pavillion of Art & Design', London, Berkeley Square London W1
'Collect: Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon', Saatchi Gallery, London
'Pacific Rim Connection', Azuma Gallery, Seattle, Washington
'The Pottery Workshop 25th Anniversary', Seattle Design Center, Washington
'On Kindness: an Australia India Culture Exchange', Habitat Centre, New Delhi
'Man and Beast', Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney

2011

'SOFA Chicago', John Natsoulas Gallery, California
'Ceramic Annual of America', San Francisco
Manningham Victorian Ceramic Award, Manningham Gallery, Victoria
'The Pursuit of Porcelain', SOFA New York and Ferrin Gallery, new York
'In Family Unity – Unity of the World', Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia
'East-West Ceramic Collaboration', University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Monoa

2010

International Ceramics Competition, L'ALcora, L’Alcora Ceramics Museum, Spain
'A New Insight of International Contemporary Ceramics', Degas Arts Space, Shanghai Elegant Monsters, Gallerie Philosophie, Taipei
Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award, The Art Centre, Queensland
'Ceramic Now?', Whitehorse Art Space, Melbourne
''Hobart Art Prize, Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Anna Pappas Gallery, Depot Gallery, Sydney
'In the Family Unity - Unity of the World', Khanty-Mansiysk city, Russia

2009

'Blue-White, White-Blue', Galerie Handwerk, München, Germany
'The Ring of Fire', Ayala Museum, The Philippines
'At the Crossroad of Civilization', Yingge Ceramic Museum, Taiwan
'Pressing Matter', Cheongiu Biennale, South Korea
'Super Normality', J Gallery, Bangkok
Zibo International Ceramic Art Expo, Zibo, China
'Trans-Pot', Nanjing Arts Institute, Nanjing, China
'The Art of Making: invention and artisanship', Castlemaine Visual Arts Biennial, VIC
'Bravura: 21st Century Australian Craft', Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Recent Acquisitions: City of Port Phillip , The Gallery, St. Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REVIEWS

2016

Mariam Arcilla, “Vipoo Srivilasa: Connecting the pots”, Vault Magazine, issue 18, August 2016, page 40-43
Amber Creswell Bell, “Clay: Contemporary Ceramic Artisans”, Thames & Hudson Ltd
Kate Singleton, “Ceramics: Contemporary Artists Working in Clay”, Chronicle Books
Chathip Suwanthong, Bangkok Business Newspaper, 18 April 2016
Guy Asmar, Art Focus: Cultural Infusion, CURVE, April/May 2016, page 16 and 102
Deianira Tolema, Vipoo Srivilasa’s Tragicomic Metaphors of Cultural Identity, Arte Fuse online
Robyn Phelan, Vipoo Srivilasa, Ceramic Ireland issue 36 2016, page 24-26

2015

Rebecca Hill, Patience Flower XXIII by Vipoo Srivilasa, Crafts Council (UK) online publication, London
Deianira Tolema, Vipoo Srivilasa’s Playful Kingdom of Ceramic Figurines, Hi Fructose online
Annie Werbler, What;s In Your Toolbox, Design Sponge online
Arunee Chuboonraj, Interview, Ploy Gam Pet (Thailand) issue 572/2015, page 146-160
2014
Carole Epp, ‘Uniting the Digital and the Real’,Studio Potter V 42 No 2, summer 2014, page 56-60
Tarun Nagesh, ‘A Curious Cast: Vipoo Srivilasa’, Ceramics Art and Perception 95, page 99-101
Brett Farmer, ‘Migratory Hybridity in the Work of Vipoo Srivilasa’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, April 2014, page 32-37
John McPhee, ‘Vipoo Srivilasa’, Artist Profile 26, page 96-100
Caterina Leone, ‘Narrative in Blue and White’, The Journal of Australian Ceramics Vol 52 No 3, page 76-79

2013

Lucy Ferrin, The Design Files Daily, 5 July 13
ABC Radio Australia, Connect Asia, 6 March 13
SBS Radio Australia, Hua Kathi Project, March 13
Suebsang Sangwachirapiban, Home Town, Art4D, Mach/April 13
Steven Pettifor, Vipoo at The Art Center, Chulaongkorn University, Asian Art News, January/February 13

2012

Khetsirin Pholdhampalit, Cultures And Commonalities, The Nation, 16 December 12
Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, The land of Oz, Bangkok Post, 23 November 12
Piyada Parikamsil, Indigo Monster Project, Fine Art Magazine (Thailand), August 2012, page 56-59
Kerry-Anne Cousins, Cross-culture narrative, Canberra Times, 1 June 2012
Inga Walton, Vipoo Srivilasa, New Ceramics -the European Ceramic Magazine, Issue 3/2012
Karen Weiss, Thai-Na-Town – Little Oz, On line feature, The Journal of Australian Ceramics, November 12

2011

Ploenpote Atthakor, two Worlds Come Together, Bangkok Post Newspaper, 3 June
Owen Leong, Peril Interview, Peril Magazine, edition11, October 11

2010

Troy Douglas, A journey Beyond the Literal, Australian Ceramics 49/3 Nov 10, P 64 67, Australia
Jerico Abila, ‘Blue Kingdom’, Silkwinds, Nov/Dec 10, P12-13, Singapore
Steve Rhodes, ‘From Coral Reefs to Teapots’, Bangkok Post, Outlook, 8 July
Casaviva Magazine Thailand, In focus People, Issue 47 February

2009

Sunday Arts ABC
Kevin Murray, ‘The relational aesthetics of Vipoo Srivilasa’, Art and Australia, Vol 47 No 2
Emmanuel Cooper ‘Contemporary Ceramics’, Thames & Hudson Ltd
Eva Tang, ‘Unique creations on display in Yingge’, Taiwan News, 11 Dec 09, page 8