Thai-born Australian ceramic artist Vipoo Srivilasa transforms strangers' broken treasures in a new exhibition set to tour nationally.
As a young art student in Bangkok in the 90s, Vipoo Srivilasa started making jewellery to sell on the side as a source of income while he was studying.
In 2023, Srivilasa's Diverse Dominion Deities won the inaugural MAKE award, Australia's richest non-acquisitive craft award. Emiliano, whose story inspired Tree of New Life , dreamt of emigrating to Australia from Mexico after watching the Sydney Olympics on TV."The ceramic object is broken, so the joy of having it disappears when they give it to me," Srivilasa says.
Humour infuses the work, too: one sculpture sports an Esky for a head; in another, a dog ejects a golden stream of vomit. Like Srivilasa's grandmother's button, pictured here in his work Dance of Dreams, many of the donated objects speak to culture and intergenerational connection."This project is to show there are different kinds of migrants here in Australia and not everyone comes here because of sadness or their country is not very good. People come for different reasons."After living in Australia for three decades, Srivilasa's work is now a mix of Thai and Australian influences.
"This way, people are not just seeing my work but can touch it, feel it, hear it, and each meal I served, I told the story of my moving to Australia," he says.
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