MURAL PROJECTS

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Temple Murals and other Buddhist Works
Phaptawan usually did the designs for and supervised the painting by a team of from six to ten artists.

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1999 A Buddhist Series of Tree and Flower Allegories painted during visits to Thailand and China.

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.

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.

1997/1988 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.

1997 Designs for exterior gables and pediment of Buddha image at Wat Phuttharangsee, Annandale, Sydney

1996 Phutthamonthol Buddhist Centre, 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]

1994-1995 Wat Sri Dongklang, Khon Kaen [100 sq.m.] 1994 Wat Saket, Samui, Surat Thani [complete ubosot, 200 sq.m] 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]

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.

1992-1993 Wat Jaksa Phattaram, Uthai Thani [complete ubosot, 160 sq.m.]

1992 Wat Theppol, Bangkok [mondop, 12 sq.m.]

1991 Wat Ban Chang, Chonburi [complete ubosot, 140 sq.m.]

1990 Wat Sri Kom Kham, Payao, own work on the lower narrative panels only, 220 sq.m.], graciously opened by H.R.H. Princess Mahachakri Sirindhorn in January1993

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Hotel & Office Murals

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1996 Mural in residence of District Chief Officer, Tak province

1996 Murals in Wimanthip Room, Montien Riverside Hotel, Bangkok

1996 Murals for The Century Hotel, Bangkok.

1995 Room murals for Laguna Banyan Tree Resort, Phuket

1995 Murals in Bangkok Airways office at Bangkok Airport

1995 Murals in Ballroom, Montien Riverside Hotel, Bangkok

1994 Murals for Dining Room lobby, Thai Embassy, Paris

1993-1994 Murals for Function Room, The Regent of Bangkok, Hotel

1993-1994 Lobby and other murals for Laguna Banyan Tree Resort, Phuket

1999-1993 Murals for President's Office, Bangkok Airways

1991-1992 Lobby mural for the Royal Garden Hotel, Bangkok, 11 x 1.35 meters, on silk

1990 Mural for Thai Airways Office, Paris

1989 Leader of the group painting Sawan / Heaven mural for the Ballroom of The Regent of Bangkok Hotel

1989 Leader of the group painting the Koh Kaew Pisadahl / Magical Crystal mural at the Conference Room in Cape Panwa Hotel, Phuket

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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Veal, Clare; Low, Yvonne, Retold-Untold Stories: Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, 2016

Geczy, Adam ‘Uncertainty is Certain: the Work of Phaptawan Suwannakudt’ in, Eyeline, 81 July,2014

Smith, Terry Placemaking/Displacement, A Sense of Place, publication accompanies the exhibition A Sense of Place at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA, 2013

Suwannakudt, Phaptawan ‘Catching the moment, one step at a time’,Asia through Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation Across Borders, edit by F. Nakamura, M. Perkins and O. Krischer, Bloomsbury, 2013

Gezcy, Adam, Party Time - 18th Biennale of Sydney, Art Monthly Australia vol.252 August, P5-9, 2012

Flautdette May V. Datuin, Uncommon Sense: ‘Empty the Visual from Eyes of Flesh’ Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art, an anthology, edited by Nora A. and Boreth Ly, Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2012

Clark, John, Asian Modernities: Chinese and Thai art compared, 1980 to 1999, Power Publication, 2010

Clark, Christine, Exhibition review: Catching the Moment each step in the past, Phaptawan Suwannakudt at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, August/September C Arts Magazine, 2010

Seeto, Aaron, News from Island, Asia Art Archive Newsletter, July 2009

Carter, Michael & Gezcy, Adam, Framing Art, Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2005

Sheriff, Mary, ‘How Images Got Their Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in the Visual Arts’, Moode, Teresa; E Weisner, Mary, ed, A Comparison to Gender History, Blackwell, 2004

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - SOLO

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2017 Rencarnation of the Butterflies, Art Atrium, Sydney

2016 One Whole Apart, Air Space, Sydney

2016 Retold-Untold Stories, SCA Galleries, Sydney College of the Arts

2014 Retold-Untold Stories, Chiang Mai University Arts Centre, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2014 – 2015 Days of (endless) Meaninglessness 100 Tonson Gallery

2013 Bavha:state of being Arc One gallery, Melbourne

2011 Locution-(re)- Locations, 100Tonson, Bangkok

2010 Catching the moment: Each Step is the Past, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney

2009 Three Worlds, Arc One gallery

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - GROUP

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2018-9 Beyond Bliss, Inaugural Bangkok Art Biennale, Thailand

2018 Between Suns, Cement Fondu, Sydney

2017 Traces of Words Museum of Anthropology University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada

2017 Beauty and Myth of Southeast Asia, Thienny lee Gallery, Sydney

2016 Twenty-Twenty, Chippendale Art Precinct, City of Sydney

2015 Ferral, Articulate Project Space, Sydney

2014 Crossing Boundaries, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, Australia

2013 ORIENTing: With or Without You, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA Western Australia

2013 Thresholds: Contemporary Thai Art Sundaram Tagore, New York, USA

2012 All our relations, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Australia

2011-2012 Edge of Elsewhere, Campbelltown Arts Centre as part of Sydney Festival January)

2011 Women Artists Exhibition for International Women’s Day, The National Gallery of Thailand

2010 Second Language, 24HR ART Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia

2010 Ephemeral but Eternal Words: Trace of Asia, ANU School of Art Gallery, ACT Australia

2009 Broadsheet Notations: Epilogue, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok

2007 The Smile of the Buddha, Drill Hall Gallery ANU Canberra ACT

2007 Heading North, Maroondah Gallery, Melbourne

2005 Open Letter, Gallery 4A, Sydney

2003 Abstractions, Drill Hall Gallery, ANU Canberra ACT

2000 El Poder de Narrar, Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló, Valenciana, Spain

1998 Women imaging women: home, body, memory, Cultural Centre of the Philippines, Manila

1995 Tradisextion, Concrete House, Bangkok

SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS

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2003 Bundanon Trust, residential Studio Grant NSW Australia

2005 Gunnery studio residency, NSW Ministry for the Arts

2008 Womanifesto Artist Residency Program, Thailand, supported by Ministry of Culture of Thailand

2010 NAVA National Association of Visual Arts artist grant

2011 Art Space Studio Residency Program Sydney NSW with support of Campbelltown Arts Centre

2012 Australia Council Grant for new work by an established artist

2012 NAVA National Association of Visual Arts artist grant

2014 Asialink Arts Residency Program with support of Arts New South Wales

2017-8 Artist Studio Carriageworks Sydney 1-year program