Thavibu Contemporary Art from Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar/Burma
Ralph Kiggell
Ralph Kiggell is based in Bangkok, Thailand, where he practises and teaches water-based woodblock printing. He has a BA in Chinese Studies from SOAS, London University (1983) and an MA in Printmaking from Tama Arts University, Tokyo (1999), for which he received a Japanese Government Scholarship. He is a member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers in Britain and exhibits widely in UK and Asia. Two recent bookworks include ‘Leading the Cranes Home’ and ‘The Third Thing’ with the Old Stile Press. The first was exhibited at the British Library in ‘From East to West: Traditional Asian and Contemporary European Printing’ (2008), and the second recently won a British Book Award in the category Book Design and Bookbinding (2014). Kiggell was visiting artist at Bangkok University, Thailand (2001-02) and at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China (2004). Residencies include Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory, Kawaguchiko (2012) and Papworth Cardiothoracic Hospital, Cambridge (2013). He has lived in Thailand since 1999, and been guest lecturer at the Department of Communi- cation and Design, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, since 2012. His work is in private and public collections including the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Guangdong Museum of Art, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, and United States Library of Congress.
