Artist : Phaptawan Suwannakudt<\/p>\n
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Birth date<\/p>\n
November 8th, 1959, at Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n
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Address in Australia<\/p>\n
32 Yule Street, Dulwich Hill NSW 2203, Australia<\/p>\n
Tel\/Fax: 61-2-9569-5495<\/p>\n
E-mail: (address to Phaptawan Suwannakudt via) john.clark@arthist.usyd.edu.au<\/p>\n
Permanent residence in Australia since September 1996.<\/p>\n
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Address in Thailand<\/p>\n
29\/1, Moo 11, Bangprom, Talingchan, Bangkok 10170, Thailand.<\/p>\n
Tel: \u00a066-2-418-5060 \u00a0fax: 412-8676<\/p>\n
also contactable by \u00a066-2-261-0382, \u00a0261-0390-1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 , fax: 261-0383<\/p>\n
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Family<\/p>\n
Husband: John Clark [spouse since 1996]<\/p>\n
Daughter: Cantra chaay saeng Clark [‘The moon sends its light’, born November 2nd, 1997 at Sydney]<\/p>\n
Son: Yenlamtarn Clark [‘The cool of the stream’, born June 27th 2000 at Sydney]<\/p>\n
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Education<\/p>\n
1980 Graduated with B.A. in Languages [English major, German minor] from Silpakorn University, Nakhon Pathom.<\/p>\n
1977 Graduated from Suksanaree High School, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
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Professional Background<\/p>\n
Freelance artist in traditional style and mural painting.<\/p>\n
Special Instructor, Thai mural painting unit, Painting Section, SUPPORT Foundation. [The Foundation for Supplementary Occupations and Techniques, Office of Her Majesty’s Private Secretary, Chitralada Palace, Bangkok, April 1984 – February 1996].<\/p>\n
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Working Experience<\/p>\n
1984-1996 organized and led the Tan Kudt Group of painters temple and hotel mural painting and in contemporary exhibitions of Thai traditional painting.<\/p>\n
1981 E.S.L. teacher for Indo-Chinese refugees, Pragmatics Company Ltd., a UNHCR Project.<\/p>\n
1970-1981 Twelve years’ painting apprenticeship to my father, the late artist in Thai style, Paiboon Suwannakudt, or Tan Kudt.<\/p>\n
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Awards<\/p>\n
Australia Council Studio Grant for new work by an established artist, 2001.<\/p>\n
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Solo Exhibitions<\/p>\n
2000 Buddhist Lives Exhibition, November, Tadu Gallery, Bangkok<\/p>\n
1999 July\/August, Sherman Galleries, Hargrave Street, Sydney<\/p>\n
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Group Exhibitions<\/p>\n
2000 July-September, El Poder de Narrar [The Power of Narration, with nine artists from eight countries, catalogue texts by Kevin Power, Patrick Flores and Trinh Minh Ha], Espai d’art Cntemporani de Castello, Valenciana, Spain.<\/p>\n
2000 February, Gang of Four, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne.<\/p>\n
1999 November, Gang of Four [with Simryn Gill, Lindy Lee, Savandhary Vongphutorn] Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney.<\/p>\n
1998 March, Women imaging women: home, body, memory, [Artists from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam], Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila.<\/p>\n
1997 March, co-organizer and exhibitor at Womanifesto Exhibition of work by Thai and Overseas Women artists at Concrete House, Nonthaburi and at Baan Chaopraya, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1995 March, Tan Kudt Group at Place of Art, Bangkok. March, Tradisexion: Five Thai Women Artists at Concrete House, Nonthaburi.<\/p>\n
1994 October, Invited Artists Exhibition of Tadsawat group, Place of Art, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1993 December, Thai Art Exhibition by Art Instructors of the SUPPORT Foundation, The Montien Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1992 November, Art Exhibition by Eighty Artists, The Montien Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1992 October, Art Exhibition by Thai Women Artists, Siam City Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1992 March, Art Exhibition by Thai Women Artists, Contempus Gallery, Queen Sirikit Convention Center, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1991 November, Thai Contemporary Art Exhibition, Artists to Heart for Emergency Home The Hilton Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1990 April, Thai Contemporary Art Exhibition, Thai Commercial Bank, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1989 March, organized the Thai Contemporary Artists Exhibition with Tan Kudt Group and invited artists in Paris.<\/p>\n
1988 August, Fourth Exhibition of Tan Kudt Group at the Thai Cultural Fair, Keio, Co. Ltd., Tokyo.<\/p>\n
1988 July, Co-operating Advisor for Student Exhibition from painting section, SUPPORT Foundation, The Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1987 December, Third Exhibition of Tan Kudt Group at Tsa-ho Gallerie Internationale, St.Pierre, I le de La Re union.<\/p>\n
1986 October, Second Exhibition of Tan Kudt Group in co-operation with student work from SUPPORT Foundation graciously presided over by H.R.H. Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn at The Regent of Bangkok Hotel.<\/p>\n
1984 March, First Exhibition of Tan Kudt Group, graciously presided over by H.R.H. Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn and H.R.H. Princess Chulabhorn at The Montien Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
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Temple Murals and other Buddhist Works<\/p>\n
[Sizes below in square meters are only approximate ones. I usually did the designs for and supervised the painting by a team of from six to ten artists].<\/p>\n
1999 A Buddhist Series of Tree and Flower Allegories painted during visits to Thailand and China.<\/p>\n
1998\/99 Commission from the Zen Centre, Annandale for its Gorricks’ Run meditation temple, funded by the Australia Council, for an altar painting of the Buddha in meditation.<\/p>\n
1998 August, brief visit to Thailand to complete designs for a Mahayana Temple in Nakhon Pathom, and commence designs for a specially commissioned temple scheme by Bangkok Airways at a temple on Samui Island.<\/p>\n
1997\/88 Lives of the Buddha Screen entirely executed and completed in Sydney. The work is 1.8 x 4.32 meters overall, on the narrative theme of Buddha’s previous lives and the life of the historical Buddha.<\/p>\n
1997 Designs for exterior gables and pediment of Buddha image at Wat Phuttharangsee, Annandale, Sydney<\/p>\n
1996 Phutthamonthol Buddhist Center, near Bangkok [1,200 sq. m., basic designs for 86 panels of 1.8 x 8 meters. Supervisor of five teams each of seven-eight artists, about thirty-five artists overall].<\/p>\n
1994-1995 Wat Sri Dongklang, Khon Kaen [100 sq.m.].<\/p>\n
1994 Wat Saket, Samui, Surat Thani [complete ubosot, 200 sq.m].<\/p>\n
1994 Completed the unfinished work of Acharn Angkarn Kalayanapon at Wat Sri Khom Kham, Phayao [figures in upper panels and Tree of Life in reredos behind main icon].<\/p>\n
1994 Wat Tha Suthawat, Angthong [complete ubosot, 200 sq.m.] for the Royal Support Foundation. These murals were featured on a special set of Thai postage stamps in 1999.<\/p>\n
1992\/3 Wat Jaksa Phattaram, Uthai Thani [complete ubosot, 160 sq.m.].<\/p>\n
1992 Wat Theppol, Bangkok [mondop, 12 sq.m.].<\/p>\n
1991 Wat Ban Chang, Chonburi [complete ubosot, 140 sq.m.].<\/p>\n
1990 Wat Sri Kom Kham, Phayao, own work on the lower narrative panels only, 220 sq.m.], graciously opened by H.R.H. Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn in January 1993.<\/p>\n
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Hotel & Office Murals<\/p>\n
1996 Mural in residence of District Chief Officer, Tak province.<\/p>\n
1996 Murals in Wimanthip Room, Montien Riverside Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1996 Murals for The Century Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1995 Room murals for Laguna Banyan Tree Resort, Phuket.<\/p>\n
1995 Murals in Bangkok Airways office at Bangkok Airport.<\/p>\n
1995 Murals in Ballroom, Montien Riverside Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1994 Murals for Dining Room lobby, Thai Embassy, Paris.<\/p>\n
1993\/4 Murals for Function Room, The Regent of Bangkok, Hotel.<\/p>\n
1993\/4 Lobby and other murals for Laguna Banyan Tree Resort, Phuket.<\/p>\n
1991\/3 Murals for President’s Office, Bangkok Airways.<\/p>\n
1991\/2 Lobby mural for the Royal Garden Hotel, Bangkok, 11 x 1.35 meters, on Thai silk.<\/p>\n
1990 Mural for Thai Airways Office, Paris.<\/p>\n
1989 Leader of the group painting Sawan \/ Heaven mural for the Ballroom of The Regent of Bangkok Hotel.<\/p>\n
1989 Leader of the group painting the Koh Kaew Pisadahl \/ Magical Crystal mural at the Conference Room in Cape Panwa Hotel, Phuket.<\/p>\n
1985 Leader of the group painting Muang Thong \/ The Golden City mural at the Coffee Shop, Silom Plaza Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1982\/3 Assistant, then successor, to my father, the late Paiboon Suwannakudt, the original artist for Barom Ratcha Phisek \/ The Coronation of the King mural and the Jakrawan Thay \/ Thai Cosmology ceiling painting at the Lobby, The Regent of Bangkok Hotel.<\/p>\n
1979 Assistant for mural painting and glass decoration, Montienthip Room, Montien Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
1977 Assistant for the Lobby mural painting, Montien Hotel, Bangkok.<\/p>\n
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Selected Bibliography of Phaptawan Suwannakudt<\/p>\n
– Maria Cheng & Lekha J. Shankar, “A way with dirty dishes: Thai muralist takes an unusual view of temple life”, [Feature] Asiaweek. 12th January, 2001.<\/p>\n
– Pichayanund Chindahporn, “Lucid Expressions” [Feature], The Bangkok Post, 12th December 2000.<\/p>\n
– Texts by Kevin Power and Patrick Flores in El Poder de Narrar \/ The Power of Narration, Espai d’ Art Contemporani de Castello, Valenciana, Spain, 2000<\/p>\n
– Kajri Jain., “Nariphon: How to eat a bowl of noodles”, Artlink, vol.19, no 4, 1999.<\/p>\n
– Ashley Carruthers, “Review” Eyeline, no. 41, Summer 1999\/2000.<\/p>\n
– Flaudette May Datuin, “The Queen, the Goddess, and the mural painter”, Art Asiapacific, no.14, April 1997.<\/p>\n
– “Identities”, TAASA Review, vol.5, no.1, September 1996.<\/p>\n
– “Portrait of the artist as a Thai woman”, The Bangkok Post Sunday Magazine, March 10-16, 1996.<\/p>\n
– Jennifer Gampell, “Profile”, Far Eastern Economic Review, December 21, 1995.<\/p>\n
– “Phaptawan Suwannakudt kap chitrakaam faa panang”, Satrisaan, 53\/13, 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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