Born in Thailand, James Prapaithong is an artist currently living and working in London. He graduated from Wimbledon College of Arts in 2019 and received his master degree in painting at the Royal College of Art in 2022. James’ paintings are reminiscent of everyday moments in our memories and the lingering sentiment that lies within. They are intended to create flashbacks and remind us of precious time in our lives that we may have forgotten once we have moved on. Commonly romanticised elements of the natural world such as water, the moon and the stars, become an essential part of James’s oeuvre, used as both aesthetic devices to explore light within the picture, and as visual metaphors for nostalgia, yearning and a need for shared experience and true connection.

James Prapaithong

b.1996, Bangkok, Thailand

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London-based

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Education

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2019 – 2022         MA Painting, Royal College of Art

2016 – 2019        BA (Hons) Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts

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Exhibition

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2023                     ‘Light Years’, Workplace Gallery, London (Solo)

‘A New Sensation’, Marguo Gallery, Paris

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2022                     ‘Kaideloscope’, Workplace Gallery, London

‘Hexagon’, Nova Contemporary, Bangkok

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2021                     ‘A Year Ago Today’, Workplace Gallery, London (Solo)

‘This is Water’, Workplace Gallery, London

‘Still @live’, MAPA Fine Art, London

2020                     ‘To My Twenties’, The Auction Collective, London

‘The Weird and the Eerie’, Hockney Gallery, London

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