Last year’s Frances Hodgkins fellow Sorawit Songsataya gives Rebecca Fox a tour around their new exhibition “Nirun” at Hocken Gallery.
So many new ideas.
The past year in Dunedin has opened up many different areas of artistic practice for multi-media artist Sorawit Songsataya, in particular incorporating sound into their work.
So they are jetting off to Thailand, where they were born, to investigate the country’s traditional string instruments, having used the digital sound of a khim in their latest exhibition “Nirun” — named for the Thai word for eternal — at the Hocken Gallery.
“I want to go back and look at other instruments. It’ll be interesting to see how I’ll feel being back in my own country.”
Having an entire year to dedicate to their work as the Frances Hodgkins fellow is something Songsataya is more than grateful for, knowing it has allowed them to develop…
