Transition Gallery is an art gallery in East London. It is run by artists Cathy Lomax and Alex Michon and also publishes Arty Magazine. Charles Saatchi's discovery of Stella Vine at the gallery launched her to international prominence.
General
Transition Gallery was founded in October 2002. It was housed in a converted garage next to a roundabout in Victoria Park Village, which is near Victoria Park, Hackney. In 2006, it moved further east to Regent Studios, which is also home to the MOT project space, and close the gallery hotspot of Vyner Street. The gallery address is Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8. The nearest tube is Bethnal Green. Other galleries in the area are Vilma Gold and Keith Talent. It shows work by both emerging and contemporary artists, concentrating mainly on group shows.
Show titles have included "Fuck Art, Let's Paint", "Prozac and Private Views" (the first Stella Vine solo show}, "Goth Moth" and "Girl on Girl". There is often a provocative polemic accompanying the shows. The "Girl on Girl" (January 2004) promotion stated::"Girl on Girl examines a new sensibility in art. Made by girls and about girls it makes a virtue of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. This work reclaims the girly and the slutty not in a riot girl, feminist or ‘woman in art’ way but with a cultural celebration, that has both the shy and the brash as equal role models. Think PJ Harvey, Frida Kahlo, The Slits, Karen Kilimnik, Artemisia Gentileschi, Patti Smith, Meg White, think sense of conviction and to hell with the consequences."
:"These girls know they’re smart, they don’t have to justify their romantic, sensitive, hesitant, angry, witty, dark, naïve, quirky work – they just make it. This show defines their new aesthetic, it’s both honest and tongue in cheek and gives a barely interested come on to any posturing males. Girl on Girl is above all not about being nice."
In March 2004, Liz Neal's Archway council flat flat studio was recreated as an installation inside the gallery. Her work was exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery's "New Blood" show in the same year.[ Hepzibah, Anderson (2004) [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20040318/ai_n12076177 "busy lizzie"] "Evening Standard", 18 March, 2004, from findarticles.com. Accessed December 31, 2006] ]tella Vine
Transition Gallery achieved significant attention in 2004 when a painting exhibited by a then-obscure artist Stella Vine was bought for £600 by Charles Saatchi and given international media coverage for its controversial depiction of Princess Diana. It was titled "Hi Paul Can You Come Over" and showed the Princess with heavy eyes and blood dripping from her lips. Vine had originally wanted to price the painting at £100.
Lomax subsequently complained that the media had initially completely ignored the painting, until it was bought and given publicity by Saatchi: :"It is amazing how the press works and how it is manipulated by PR companies. I have of course always realised that the newspapers / magazines need to fill their columns and will print stories handed to them on a plate but the fact that every single paper has jumped on this story because it is about":"1: Saatchi":"2: A stripper":"3: A painting of Diana bleeding" :"is amazing." :"This painting was in the Girl on Girl show at Transition for a month, the image was sent out to all the relevant people and there was no interest from the press, because there were two factors missing. Saatchi was not involved and Stella's previous occupation was not highlighted." [ [http://cathylomax.blogspot.com/2004_02_22_cathylomax_archive.html Cathy Lomax blog, February 24, 2004] Retrieved April 1, 2006]
The Transition gallery continues to show her work.
Garageland
In January 2006, the gallery launched a new arts and culture magazine called "Garageland", edited by Cathy Lomax. It is designed and produced by Paul Murphy and Yolanda Zappaterra, with an editorial board which includes David Bradshaw, the Creative Director of GQ Style.
Artists exhibited at Transition Gallery
(As of February 2006)
*A: Karen Adams, Carmen Alemán, Yasmeen Al-Awadi, Alice Anderson, Majed Aslam, Chrissie Atkinson, Emi Avora
*B: Stav B, Mike Bartlett, Olly Beck,Paul Becker, Kierra Bennett, Richard Birkett, Anna Bjerger, Annabel Bluesky, Isha Bøhling, Harry Borden, Steve Bowbrick, Andrew Bracey, Amanda Bracken, Edwin Bradford, David Bradshaw, Harry Bradshaw, Rose Bradshaw, Clive Brandon, Louise Brierley, Jessica Broas, Sophie Brown, Matthew Burbridge, David Burrows,
*C: Jorge Cabieses, Ruth Calland, Giovanna Maria Casetta, Helen Cattell, Jane Chadwick, Paul Clark, Jenny Clarke, Leigh Clarke, John Clayman, Theo Cowley, Claudio Correa, Ann Course, John Cranmer, Mark Croxford, Grania Cumming, Leigh Curtis
* D: Daedalus, Sam Dargan, Richard Dawson, Joel Dickens, Horst Diekgerdes, Roger Dilkes, Andrew Dodds, Annabel Dover, Sarah Doyle, Viviana Duran, Catherine Dyer
*E: Robert Ellis
*F: Neli Feferberg, Diego Fernandez, Claudio del Flerro, Ben Ford-Smith
*G: Sharon Gal, Isabel Garcia, Jenn Gardner, Malcolm Garrett, Antonio Gianasi, Sarah Gifford, Rebecca Gillieron, Paul the Girl, Cristina Golland, Andy Gollifer, Hilde Grandalen, Tine Grandalen, Sam Griffin, Jane Grisewood
*H: Neil Hamon, Sarah Haq, Nadia Hebson, Jane Henderson, Carol Ho, Sigrid Holmwood, Robert Holyhead, Nicholas Hughes, Tom Hunter
*I: Isabel Ivars
*J: Michael Jackson, David James, Martina Jenne, Jasper Joffe, Mark Jones, Reece Jones
*K: Mesbah Kazmi, Sue Kennington, Calum F. Kerr, Deirdre King, Rebecca Knapp, Chris Koning, Cecile Krygier
*L: Peter Lamb, Laura Lancaster, Damian Le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, Arabella Lee, Daniel Lehan, Sharone Lifschitz, Hew Locke, Cathy Lomax, Pam Lomax, Sex Lovemat, Miranda Lopatkin, Antonia Low, Jenny Lu, Lady Lucy, Scotia Luhrs, Fiona Lumbers
*M: Gary McDonald, Emily McMehen, Jeff McMillan, Shoko Maeda, Nicky Magliulo, Melanie Manchot, Elizabeth Marongiu, Nora Maycock, Zoe Mendelson, Alex Michon, Marcela Moraga Millan, Eleanor Moreton, Catherine Morland, Alex Gene Morrison, Joachim Mueller-Ruchholtz, Cliodha Murphy, Paul Murphy
*N: Liz Neal, Penny Neville Lee, J A Nicholls, Ana Nieto
*O: Gary O'Connor, The House Of O'Dwyer, Marcus Oakley, Sandra Oates, Nicola Ollis, Maria Ostropolski
*P: Bruno Pacheco, Theokritos Papadopoulos, James Payne, Mike Perry, Giacomo Picca, Alain Pichon, Esther Planas, Georgia Platman, Theo Prodromidis, Claire Pestaille, Matthew de Pulford, Caterina Purdy
*R: Damian Rafferty, Kavel Rafferty, Polly Read, Damien Roach, Peter Robathan, Neal Rock, Rocky, Danny Rolph, Anne Rook, Melanie Rose, Sophie Ruderman, Carolina Ruff
*S: Jimo Toyin Salako, Emily Jo Sargent, Hans Scheirl, Norbert Schoerner, Rachel Shannon, Libby Shearon, Kaori Shiota, Marc Sibley, Sam Small, Maximilliana Spinola, Caroline Stevenson, Heidi Stokes, Srinivas Surti, Andy Swani, Jason Synnott
*T: Emma Talbot, Nora Tam, Andrew Thomas, Pauline Thomas, Melissa A. Thompson, Mimei Thompson, Sadie Tierney, Annabel Tilley, Evdokia Topoui
*U: Maren K. Ullrich, Edward Underwood, Hitoko Urago
*V: Rodrigo Vergara, Stella Vine
*W: Ray Ward, Marc Wilson, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Jo Wilmot, Carol Ann Wingrove, Peter Woodhead, Hugo Worthy, Vicky Wright
*Y: Isabel Young
*Z: Yolanda Zappaterra, Alex Zika
ee also
*Stella Vine
*MOT (gallery)
*Saatchi Gallery
References
External links
* [http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/ Transition Gallery official web site]
* [http://www.artymagazine.com Arty Magazine]
