ARTIST STATEMENT

In this series of work, Ketklao focuses on the natural scene around her by viewing it through the synthetic materials of glass windows, metal fences, and iron gates. These ubiquitous structures are designed by humans to prevent something from happening. It is a paradox that their decorative patterns create visible tension. In the time of isolation at home during the pandemic, details around her life have become evidently visible and magnified. Her interest in the topic of humankind and nature keeps growing over time. She believes that since we all grow up with different interactions with nature, each individual will have a different appreciation for the context of the environment.

ARTIST STATEMENT

This body of work aims to develop a contemporary dialogue about the landscape through painting, by giving meaning to the imaginative visual relationships of nature, architecture, space, and time.

The artist is interested in exploring how environmental issues of the world effect our daily lives, as well as their emotional impact. By creating a visual language, Morakot reimagines sites of urban expansion, as well as natural habitats. She questions, if and how these worlds can co-exist?

The artist uses painting as a connection point to create relationships between architectural structures and natural landscapes.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Morakot Ketklao’s work explores connections between the personal and the shared experience of global climate change. She relates her everyday observations of the nuances and subtleties of her immediate environment to those of our ever-changing planet through abstract forms. She follows cues from the natural world and finds pleasure in observing its anomalies and curiosities. She has developed an emotive visual language that expresses her concerns about the loss of the natural world while exploring themes of compassion, empathy, and friendship.

Morakot’s work takes form through a diverse landscape, but always has roots in natural phenomena. The human attempt to understand and sometimes control our environment.  She tries to connect the relative of differences between life and natural scenery in the age of change. Ultimately it is the ebb and flow of human participants with the complexities of nature that threads through her work.

BIOGRAPHY

Morakot Ketklao is a Chiang Mai-based Artist.

Ketklao’s work explores connections between the personal and the shared experience of global climate change. She relates her everyday observations of her immediate environment nuances. Her body of work combines landscape elements with structural geometry to create fractured architectural landscapes that explore the ever-encroaching presence of humanity in life. She has developed an emotive visual language that expresses her concerns about the loss of the natural world while exploring themes of compassion, empathy, and friendship, all united by our collective mourning of nature in the Anthropocene age.

Ketklao earns a bachelor’s degree from the Painting Division, Faculty of Fine Arts Chiang Mai University, and a Master’s degree from Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She further studies in Miestershuler program in Leipzig school, Academe of Visual Art Leipzig, Germany. She earns a Scholarship for Master Program (Female Artist), Dresden Germany, and a scholarship from International Placement Services Zentralstelle four Arbeitsvermittlung (ZAV.) Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

She earns a Doctorate of Philosophy in Educational Technology, and Communication from the Faculty of Education, Naresuan University, Thailand. Ketklao exhibits her work nationally (Thailand) and abroad. She has held solo and group exhibitions in Thailand, Vietnam, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Montenegro.

Currently, she works as a full-time Art lecturer at Chiang Mai University.