Plimsoll Gallery, 37 Hunter Street, Hobart
Plimsoll Gallery, in partnership with Dark Mofo, is proud to present 'VIPOO SRIVILASA: IF WE’RE BEING HONEST'
Joyful, disarming and quietly ritualistic, Vipoo Srivilasa invites audiences into an immersive, multi-sensory exhibition shaped by ceramics, touch, sound and participation.
Moving through darkness and anonymity, visitors make, offer, and confess. Here, the subconscious takes the lead: what emerges when we let ourselves be honest, allowing truth to surface through making, gesture, and sensation.
Curated by Caine Chennatt
Vipoo Srivilasa:
Over the past two decades, Vipoo (AUS/THA)has made works that engage with complex questions of queerness, migration and spiritual meaning, using an aesthetic and medium that is accessible, positive and beautiful.
His works often explore the dark parts of experience including isolation, loneliness, nostalgia, as well as joy, beauty, and hope in the midst of these struggles. Additionally, Vipoo has developed participatory projects that invite people to be part of his creative process, helping them express themselves through storytelling and clay.
Vipoo has exhibited extensively around the world, including Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Saatchi Gallery, London; Ayala Museum, Philippines; Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan; Nanjing Arts Institute, China and the National Gallery of Thailand.
Vipoo was awarded a Bachelor of Art (Ceramics) from Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand in 1994 which he followed with a Graduate Diploma of Arts (Ceramics) four years later at Monash University in Melbourne, and in 1999 was awarded a Master of Fine Art and Design from the University of Tasmania, Hobart.
Vipoo lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, where his studio, ClayLAB, is situated within the Kulin Nation/Cheltenham.
Opening hours - Dark Mofo
11 - 14 & 18 - 21 June
4pm - 10pm
Opening hours - all other times
23 June - 9 August
11am - 4pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays
Closed Sundays, Mondays, and public holidays
Opening hours - Open Day
Sunday 9 August, 10 am - 2pm
underglaze and gold lustre. © Vipoo Srivilasa. Courtesy of the artist.
