James Jirat Patradoon

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Current Location

Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺

Country of Origin

Thailand 🇹🇭

James Jirat Patradoon is an internationally exhibiting artist whose illustrative style takes influence from comic books and Japanese anime of the 1990s, and draws upon imagery from drag, high fashion, kink, tattooing and the occult.

His neon gothic paradise of pop horror is conveyed across mediums of painting, drawing, screen-printing, murals, animated gifs, tattooing, and sculpture. His works are an exploration of Camp, and play with the contradictions of performative hyper-sexualised gender, East and West, the familiar and the Other.

Once you get me started, I won’t shut up about…

Cryptids! Like the Jersey Devil, Spring-Heeled Jack, the Mothman etc. Did you know Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother once saw the Jersey Devil in upstate New York and managed to fire a musket at it? Don’t get me started..

My project I’m proudest of to-date is…

My solo exhibition INFERNO in Los Angeles at Superchief Gallery. It was conceived and created during a sabbatical period in Bangkok, I painted the biggest paintings I’ve ever made in the smallest apartment I had ever lived in, and showed it as a giant immersive exhibition.

My favourite clients are those who…

Can look at my style and see it being applied different kinds of projects and subject matter that it wouldn’t normally be applied to to create something really unique . I love that approach of remixing and combining contrasting ideas!

I’d describe my style as…

“Luxury Horror, Camp Noir, Neon Goth” have all been audacious ways I’ve described my work to strangers I’ve just met.

For inspiration, I look to…

Image aggregating and image hoarding essentially. At several points in the day every single day I’m compulsively hoarding images and saving them and I’ll often just look through all these folders of disparate gems and find ways to connect them to create something new.

I do my best work when…

I discover and binge a new true-crime podcast and keep that spontaneous right-side of my brain occupied like a toddler on an iPad, so I can focus on drawing undisturbed and enter a flow state.

Welcome to Jacky Winter Spring/Summer ‘24. Each season a new artist creates original imagery using our site as their playground. The current artwork (above) comes from Georgia Perry. Learn more about our seasonal model of representation and other FAQ.

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