I am a multidisciplinary conceptual fine artist, largely working with ceramics, sculptures, and interactive installation. My artworks often combine language and text to formulate a cultural narrative that responds to diasporic identity and interchange of dual nationality. Thus, making my artistic practise autobiographical in nature.
As a critically engaged artist, I frequently highlight the increasingly globalised world and the effect of Westernisation to indigenous cultures from the East, particularly Thailand. My work aims to explore the multifaceted layers of Thai-British identity and what that encompasses in the ever-changing contemporary world. The constant exploration of ideas and research for material has direct contact to the popular culture of the 1960s. A cultural overload of art and entertainment that established itself in the post-war period has profoundly impacted my artistic practice.
The Pop Art period is a notable example, influencing much of my work. The contextual framework of the 60’s introduced a substantial critique on Western consumption and commoditisation which is also in line with Post-Modernist critique of globalisation. My ideas often stem in response to the pervasive force of western hegemony and the process in which this erases certain aspects of indigenous identity.
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