Vipoo Srivilasa | Portrait 23: identity

Portrait 23: identity
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.

We are pleased to announce Vipoo Srivalasa has 10 works selected for this exhibition, titled ‘Happy Australian’ series 2022.

Vipoo will also feature in Melbourne Now 2023 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square.
On view / 24 March - 20 August 2023

Portrait 23: Identity is a major exhibition of new work from multi-award-winning contemporary Australian artists and collectives working across every state and territory. Street art, textiles, performance, photography, ceramics, painting, drawing, soft sculpture and bronze challenge the boundaries of portraiture. Many of the works move eloquently between installation, video, and animation, inviting you, the viewer, inside the portrait.

Vipoo Srivilasa | Melbourne Now 2023

Congratulations to Vipoo Srivilasa for his inclusion in Melbourne Now 2023.

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square

On View | 24 March 2023 - 20 August 2023


Image: courtesy NGV / Melbourne Now 2023 artists and designers at the announcement event on 18 October. Photo: Eugene Hyland

Top 100 Hottest Collectable Artists list

Congratulations to our artists selected for the Top 100 Hottest Collectable Artists list:
Luke Sciberras, Jennifer Riddle, Vipoo Srivilasa, Kate Bergin, Stephen Bird, Lily Mae Martin, and Vanessa Stockard.

Sonia Payes

Transmutations 2022

Sonia Payes
Transmutations 2022
On view until 29 May 2022
"Assembly Point", 152 Sturt Street, Southbank, Victoria.

Humanity is no longer the same but in a state of metamorphosis, an evolution. Themes of the cycle of life and humanity's ambivalent relationship to our future environment fuse together in Payes’s recent works.

Payes transforms her daughter's facial likeness into 'a digital avatar' representing humanity as we undertake the process of reintegration and re-engagement with our planet. Payes’s images speak eloquently of our plight while offering hope for a re-imagined future.

Photography has been the bedrock of Payes’s practice since her debut show in 2003, in which she gracefully visualised the mutable relationship between the human body and its environment. Payes eagerly adopts different media – animated film, 3D imagery, lenticular prints and sculpture – to further elucidate the concerns underpinning her art: those of perpetual change, the reciprocity between all living beings, nature’s regenerative cycles, and a faith in humanity’s ability to adapt to environmental upheaval.