Sorapong Twisombat CV

Education

2003 - Higher Certificate in Fine Art, Prayab Technological College, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

 

International Exhibits

October 2005 - The Manchester Art Show, Manchester, England.

March - April 2006 - Art Ireland Spring Collection, Dublin, Ireland.

July 2006 - The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

November 2006 - Art Ireland Winter Collection, Dublin, Ireland.

July 2007 - The Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

September 2007 - Cork Art Fair, Cork, Ireland.

November 2007 - Manchester Loves Art, Manchester, England.

November 2007 - Art Ireland Winter Collection, Dublin, Ireland.

November 2007 - The Edinburgh Art Show, Edinburgh, Scotland.

 

About the Artist

Sorapong draws on his observation of the countryside around his Northern Thailand Chiang Mai home to create stylised representations of country scenes. Mountains and trees are the backdrop for his omnipresent water buffalo (kwai). These docile giants with their impressive spread of horns are still used even today by Thai rice farmers for ploughing and carting on the farms. The artist uses a pastel palette that is at once vibrant and at the same time tranquil in effect. Sorapong, who often uses the diptych or triptych format, extends his painting from tha face of the chunky canvas around to cover all four edges, thus uniting the picture with the wall on which it is hung.