Vipoo Srivilasa support materials for
Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship application.
Selected Community Engagement Projects.
Happy Australian, 2023
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Happy Australian is a series of ten ceramic portraits inspired by selected submissions of people designing their most ‘Australian Eleganza Extravaganza outfit’ to wear on the happiest occasion of their life.
What we wear can create our identity. The clothes we put on affect our mood and wearing your best outfit sure creates happiness. By asking people to design fashion, it makes it easy for them to tell their story. The stories I received were really deep and personal. I incorporated elements into the portraits based on their design and story, but also included my own interpretation, imagination and story into the works.
Shrine of Life / Benjapakee Shrine , 2021
APT10, QAGOMA, Brisbane
In Shrine of Life, I acknowledge my identity while building on the audience-oriented nature of my previous pieces. I created five contemporary deities to represent qualities important to me: identity, love, equality, spirituality, creativity, and security.
Shrine of Life / Benjapakee Shrine, 2021
Visitors are invited to make a paper flower offering to one of the deities in order to request blessings and protection.
Garden of Love, 2021
APT10, QAGOMA, Brisbane
An interactive project for Children Art Centre at the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
Garden of Love, 2021
Children can reflect on the people they miss the most by writing them a message or drawing their portrait or an imaginary bear on a flower template, which can be planted in a growing garden of blooms.
Wellness Deity, 2021
Linden New Art, Melbourne
I asked the online community to submit drawings of a Wellness Deity that could heal, aid, or protect them from the pandemic. Nineteen of these drawings were chosen as the inspiration behind my ceramic sculptures, each accompanied by a creative writing piece.
Wellness Deity, 2021
A group photo!
Wellness Deity 2021
An installation image showing the original drawing, creative writings, and my sculptures.
Love Lab, 2019
Craft Victoria, Melbourne / SAC Gallery, Bangkok
Love Lab is an interactive performance that provides participants with an opportunity to reflect on the components that make up their love language and, in turn, discover how good or bad love tastes.
Love Lab 2019
As part of the event, participants completed a short questionnaire about the taste of their ideal love, which was converted into bite-size canapés.
Handmade porcelain dishes used for the canapés that participant can take home.
Superheros, 2017
Kingston Art Centre, Melbourne
I hosted a six-hour intensive workshop for twelve members of the local community at my studio. During the workshop, I taught them how to create a ceramic superhero based on their own design. Each superhero was imbued with the power to solve an issue they were facing.
Superheros, 2017
After the workshop, I arranged for an exhibition of the sculptures at the Kingston Arts Centre.
Superhero, 2017
Kingston Art Centre, Melbourne.
I hosted a six-hour intensive workshop for twelve members of the local community at my studio. During the workshop, I taught them how to create a ceramic superhero based on their own design. Each superhero was imbued with the power to solve an issue they were facing. After the workshop, I arranged for an exhibition of the sculptures at the Kingston Arts Centre.