Tawatchai lives and works in Chiangmai. His sculptural forms skew and contort visual reality, challenging conventional notions of perception and objective understandings of the physical world. Working with ordinary materials, including hardwood, slate, organic fibres and various types of metal, the artist promotes a heightened awareness of space, encouraging the viewer to acknowledge the surrounding spatial field as an intrinsic part of the work itself. Tawatchai often cites his interests in navigation, cartography, astronomy and historical understandings of the universe, and uses complex mathematical calculations to generate forms, which are then designed and constructed without the aid of modern technology. He received his Bachelor of Fine Art degree at Chiangmai University, and then his Master’s at Silpakorn University. Tawatchai has exhibited in Japan, the US, Europe, Australia, Taiwan and across Southeast Asia, at the Venice and Sydney Biennales and has twice been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.