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PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

PHAPTAWAN SUWANNAKUDT

b. 1959, Australia
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Phaptawan Suwannakudt Biography

Phaptawan Suwannakudt graduated from Silpakorn University, Thailand with a degree in English and German and completed her MVA at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney.

Phaptawan Suwannakudt’s work encompasses traditional Thai mural painting, public projects and individual paintings. She appropriates the artistic methods and traditions of her homeland and situates them within a contemporary western context. Suwannakudt describes herself as ‘physically absent but not emotionally separated from Thailand’. The narratives within her work are now more personal. Instead of using stories of Buddha, Suwannakudt’s paintings reveal an insight into the artist’s life in her adopted country – glimpses of the suburban world around her, fused with memories of her past.

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GROUP EXHIBITION Fear No Power: Women Imagining Otherwise National Gallery Singapore 9 January–15 November 2026 Singapore

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Phaptawan Suwannakudt, My Mother Was a Nun I (1998). Acrylic on canvas. 121 × 120 cm. Collection of National Gallery Singapore.


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