I am a multidisciplinary conceptual fine artist, largely working with ceramics, sculptures, and interactive installation. My artworks often combine language and text to formulate a cultural narrative that responds to diasporic identity and interchange of dual nationality.

As a critical engaged artist, I frequently highlight the increasingly globalised world and the effect of Westernisation to indigenous cultures from the East, particularly Thailand.  My work aims to explore the multifaceted layers of Thai-British identity and what that encompasses in the everchanging contemporary world. I seek to highlight the significance of agricultural heritage to the Isaan region and the harsh juxtaposition of Westernized values and capital emerging into Thai indigenous villages. The employment of rice in my artwork provides a historical and cultural narrative into primitive rice farming and the emergence of Western intervention of capitalistic gains to commercialising rice globally.

The contextual framework of the 60’s introduced a substantial critique on Western consumption and commoditization which is also in line with post-Modernist critique of globalization. My ideas often stem in response to the pervasive force of western hegemony and the process in which this erases certain aspects of indigenous identity.

Isaan is situated in the North-eastern part of Thailand where rice cultivation and farming has been practised historically. Since the pervasive force of Westernisation in the East, Industrialisation of agricultural techniques pushed many indigenous farmers to detach the ways of tradition, in both methods of farming and finding work in other industries inducing displacement in Thailand.

The ceramic rice bag constitutes a cultural narrative of Isaan, sustaining a deep intention to use ceramic as a medium bares a cultural history and relationship to clay. The earliest trace of Thai ceramics marks the beginning of wet rice agriculture which is highly significant in materialising this project. The ceramic bag is handmade, emphasising the importance of innkeeping traditional methods as a central focus in my artistic practice. Moreover, the ceramic rice bag is carefully designed with painted images of cultural tropes and text which bring a sense of nostalgia.