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Transition Gallery is an art gallery in East London. It is run by artists Cathy Lomax and Alex Michon and also publishes Arty Magazine.

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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. 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.
The nearest tube is Bethnal Green. The gallery address is Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8.

Stella 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.[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)

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