Swamp Monsters is a kids’ exhibition featuring Thai-Australian ceramic artist, Vipoo Srivilasa.
Curated by Nicola Bryant for Wyndham Art Gallery, the exhibition runs from Saturday 31 October to Sunday 24 January 2027.
About the exhibition
Ka-plonk!
Twitchee-twitchee-twitchee!
Puk-puk!
Croak.
Frogs growl like motorbike engines. Birds swoop and dart through the reeds. Fresh water slips and oozes through the mangrove bogs and into the salty sea.
Created for kids by Vipoo Srivilasa, Swamp Monsters invites you to transform into a wetland creature. Choose your costume, then make your own Swamp Monster mask to complete your transformation. What kind of swamp monster will you be?
Inspired by the living rhythms of the Wyndham wetlands, Swamp Monsters invites you to creep into this in-between world. Here, you can transform into a creature of the saltmarsh – part bird, part platypus, part something stranger.
Wyndham City Council is home to a world-class bird-watching site, the Western Treatment Plant. Within the mudflats and lagoons, everything is connected. Human wastewater makes nutrients for bugs, bugs feed fish, and fish nurseries attract birds from as far away as snowy Siberia!
Swamp Monsters is a joyful call to care for our local Wyndham wetlands.
Curated by Nicola Bryant.
Thank you to Sai Wai Foo for her contribution to Swamp Monsters as costume designer and maker.
Swamp Monsters School Holiday Activities
School holiday fun is coming to the Wyndham Cultural Centre with free drop-in activities as part of the exhibition. Head to the program page on Wyndham City Council’s website for more information.
Families make masks in Swamp Monsters exhibition featuring Vipoo Srivilasa and curated by Nicola Bryant 
Swamp Monsters by Vipoo Srivilasa in exhibition curated by Nicola Bryant. Photo by Simon Strong 
Families make masks in Swamp Monsters exhibition featuring Vipoo Srivilasa and curated by Nicola Bryant
Image credits
Installation views by James Henry
Artwork documentation by Simon Strong
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