Savanhdary Vongpoothorn's work has been
exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Australia and overseas, including
at the Art Gallery of
New South Wales, Brisbane City Art Gallery; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery and
Ivan Doherty Gallery, Sydney; the Hong Kong Arts Centre, Singapore Art
Museum, and at the Royal Overseas League Scholars Exhibition in London.
Her work is represented in Australian and international corporate and
public collections, including the Queensland Art Gallery and the National
Gallery of Australia. She has won numerous awards and was a Moet & Chandon
finalist in 1998. Savanhdary is represented by Martin Browne Fine Art,
Sydney, and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.
Savanhdary was born in Laos
and arrived in Australia in 1979 with her parents when she was eight
years old. She completed a bachelor of Visual arts at
the University of Western Sydney and a Masters of Fine Arts at the University
of New South Wales (COFA). She returned to Laos for the first time in
1996. Her work has a range of influences, including Laotian textiles,
Buddhist
mandalas, Aboriginal art, Minimal abstraction, and the Australian landscape.
Her finely textures works are developed through a technique of perforating
the surface of the canvas and building up layers of paint.
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