.... In Vipoo’s work, blue and white porcelain emerges in a hybrid form. By grafting his contemporary ceramic practice onto that tradition, and juxtaposing emblems of Thai and Australian culture, he reorientates its settled expectations.
Aside from the contemporary and historical contexts of these pots,
there is the simple pleasure that can be taken by looking into the rich cobalt blue as it sinks into the brittle white porcelain.
Since its invention by Chinese potters during the Yuan dynasty, blue and white porcelain has become probably the best-loved and most ubiquitous genre of ceramics. In Vipoo’s pots, the seemingly effortless magic of the materials has given the artist a cue to explore a greater variety of motifs. He delves into a narrative style whose inventive scope strains at the containing forms of vase, bottle and bowl.