Cathy Lomax founded Transition Gallery in 2002 and is the editor of Arty and Garageland magazines. Lomax has a Fine Art MA from Central St Martins (2002), was an Abbey Painting Fellow at The British School at Rome (2014) and won The Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2016. In 2023 she completed a Film Studies PhD at Queen Mary University of London for which she researched the role of makeup and artifice in the creation of the Hollywood star image. Her paintings are informed by film, femininity, masquerade and the way that popular culture is consumed and related to.
Solo exhibitions include: Reflexion, Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, 2026 (upcoming); On Reflection, University of Brighton, 2025; Star Bar, Broadway Cinema, Letchworth Garden City, 2020; Painting on Paper, Yantai Library and Art Museum, China, 2018; The Blind Spot, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, 2017. Recent group exhibitions include: Fandom, LAS Gallery, London SE8, 2025; Blusher, Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University 2025; The Look, Transition Projects, London E8, 2024; Witch Marks, Transition Projects for Sluice at Minories, Colchester, 2024; Fabulation, All Saints Church, Cambridge, 2022; Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, 2021.
Her work is held in numerous public & private collections including: Soho House, David and Indré Roberts Collection, De Montfort University, Priseman Seabrook Collection, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery.
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