Psychobilly Death Doll, painting by Alex Michon, shown in Goth Moth at the Transition Gallery in 2004

Alex Michon is a British artist, based in London, and runs the Transition Gallery in Hackney with Cathy Lomax. The Transition Gallery is an art gallery in East London. ... The Transition Gallery is an art gallery in East London. ... Hackney is the principal area of the London Borough of Hackney in East London. ... Fetish Girl by Cathy Lomax 2003 (based on Thora Birch as Enid in the United Artists film Ghost World) Cathy Lomax is an artist, curator and gallery owner in London. ...

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, and also writes for Arty magazine. Central Saint Martins at Holborn Central Saint Martins (ex-St Martins) in Charing Cross Road. ...

After Adrian Searle's criticisms of Stella Vine in 2004, she wrote a letter to him, defending painting: Adrian Searle is the chief art critic of The Guardian newspaper in Britain, and has been writing for the paper since 1996. ... Stella Vine is an artist in London. ...

as the old/new YBAs prepare for yet another retrospective, what is longed for is, if not an overthrow of the existing order then at least a loosening of it? ... You also write that "painters are mostly a conservative lot". As someone who has just finished an MA, I can assure you that there are many so called conceptual artists being rehashed through colleges who are deeply rooted in a kind of stymied art speak and who are making work from a deeply conservative place. Painters are no less or more conservative than artists working in other media.^[1]

Michon's work in the Girl on Girl show at the Transition Gallery in 2004 was described:

Alex Michon draws, paints, embroiders and decoupages over the pages of romantic fiction and linen hankies; layering images of sexual encounters, and personal disappointments she disrupts the nicey, nicey text whilst acknowledging a fascination with its romantic hinterland of imaginary fulfilment.^[2]

See also

• Transition Gallery
• Cathy Lomax

The Transition Gallery is an art gallery in East London. ... Fetish Girl by Cathy Lomax 2003 (based on Thora Birch as Enid in the United Artists film Ghost World) Cathy Lomax is an artist, curator and gallery owner in London. ...

References

1. ↑ Alex Michon on Cathy Lomax blog, March 4, 2004 Retrieved April 1, 2006
2. ↑ Girl on Girl, Transition Gallery, January 2004 Retrieved April 1, 2006

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External links

• Installation by Alex Michon and Cathy Lomax (BBC site)
• Alex Michon drawings of The Slits (under "alex")