Cathy Lomax
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artist
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, curator
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and director of the Transition Gallery
Transition Gallery
Transition Gallery is a contemporary art project space in Hackney, East London. It is run by artists Cathy Lomax and Alex Michon. Transition Editions the gallery's publishing arm produces publications to accompany shows as well as two bi-annual magazines Arty and Garageland.-History:Transition...
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Life and career
Cathy Lomax is an artist mainly known for her figurativeFigurative art
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paintings. She has a BA Fine Art from London Guildhall University
London Guildhall University
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(2000), and an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
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(2002). She said about painting:
- Painting has multiplied, subtracted, repeated and revised real life long before photography let alone photoshop was a gleam in the eye of mankind. It is undoubtedly an ancient art but this longevity does not automatically make it reactionary. Painting is something that we can and should utilise to bind together the past and the future in order to create an important revolutionary vision.
She is the director of Transition Gallery
Transition Gallery
Transition Gallery is a contemporary art project space in Hackney, East London. It is run by artists Cathy Lomax and Alex Michon. Transition Editions the gallery's publishing arm produces publications to accompany shows as well as two bi-annual magazines Arty and Garageland.-History:Transition...
in east London which focuses on new contemporary art by both emerging and established artists.
She also publishes and edits two magazine: Arty
Arty
Arty is an independent British art fanzine started by the artist Cathy Lomax in 2001. Arty is for art fans written by artists themselves and published by Transition Gallery's editions department, the artist-run space in East London.-History:...
, an idiosyncratic publication featuring artwork and thoughts by a group of invited contributors and Garageland a glossy art and culture publication which examines pertinent art themes such as beauty, machismo or nature.
Arty was started in April 2001 as a reaction against established art magazines; it is written and illustrated by artists. It was described by her colleague Alex Michon
Alex Michon
Alex Michon is a British artist, based in London, and runs the Transition Gallery in Hackney with Cathy Lomax.-Career:Alex Michon is a graduate of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. She exhibits her work, which is mostly painting and drawing. She also writes for Arty magazine...
as:
an antidote to the kind of dry academic writing about art which was becoming increasingly elitist and out of touch with the kind of riky tiky, hand-made and heartfelt work which was appearing in minuscule galleries throughout the land.
Artist Stella Vine
Stella Vine
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has commented on Lomax:
- It’s been great to have the support of Cathy Lomax at Transition Gallery, she has been one of the few people to really believe in me ... she’d say, “great do it, just do it all, you shouldn’t censor yourself so much, stop chucking stuff out !” Nice genuine support without any motive. Cathy paints a bit like Peter Blake. I first came across Cathy’s magazine ‘Arty’ a little art fanzine at the Serpentine gallery bookshop ... the energy in her magazine, and the childishness of it, I thought she would be a teenager, she was my age...and she also was running her own gallery ... She’s been a rock...
Since 2003, Lomax has regularly posted her thoughts on a blog.
Shows
Exhibitions include:The Image Duplicator (Contemporary Art Projects, London, 2009)
The Golden Record (Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008)
Vignettes (Rosy Wilde 2006)
She's No Angel (James Coleman 2004)
Girl on Girl (Transition Gallery
Transition Gallery
Transition Gallery is a contemporary art project space in Hackney, East London. It is run by artists Cathy Lomax and Alex Michon. Transition Editions the gallery's publishing arm produces publications to accompany shows as well as two bi-annual magazines Arty and Garageland.-History:Transition...
2003)
Books
- "Arty: Greatest Hits" Transition Editions, ISBN 0-9548954-1-X (an anthology of excerpts from issues 1-16)