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Mimei Thompson

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN
www.transitiongallery.co.uk info@transitiongallery.co.uk
07941 208566 / 020 7254 4202

13 September – 5 October 2008
Private View Friday 12 September 6-9pm

Gallery open Fri-Sun 12-6pm
Late First Thursdays Opening - Thurs 2 October 6-9pm

Transition is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Mimei Thompson.

Thompson’s work depicts dark, mutating cosmic worlds, populated by cartoon brains, clouds, probing eyeballs and curious creatures vying for attention.

These alien beings are playful, surprised, anxious and cheeky, forming surreal portraits in a constant state of flux and unrest.

Thompson’s power is in luring us into these stormy universes through a seductive eddy of paint, a baroque line, or a glimmer of florescent green.

Her enigmatic depictions of extraordinary ‘natural’ forces connect us with our own inner worlds, and suggest interrelated systems and patterns - reproduction, death, decay and regeneration.

Mimei Thompson studied at the Royal College of Art, London, and the Glasgow School of Art. Recent shows include These Living Walls of Jet, at Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, and the Studio Voltaire Annual Members’ Exhibition 2007, selected by Stuart Comer, Polly Staple and Christabel Stewart. Mimei Thompson is represented by Ceri Hand Gallery.

These Living Walls of Jet
July 4 to August 2, 2008

Ceri Hand Gallery is a new contemporary commercial art gallery opening to the public on 5 July 2008 in Cotton Street, Liverpool.

The launch event on the 4th of July will feature performances by Bedwyr Williams and Juneau Projects.

Featured Artists:
Henny Acloque, Craig Atkinson,
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Petros Chrisostomou, Martyn Cross, Samantha Donnelly, Hayley Lock, Eleanor Moreton, Rebecca Stevenson, Mimei Thompson

The inaugural exhibition at Ceri Hand Gallery includes eleven artists who weave historical references, from the Baroque to the Renaissance, with folklore and the treacherous natural world, to create new imaginary landscapes, revealing absurdity in our quest for stability and perfection and the fragility of memory and subjectivity.
Photographs, sculpture, collages and paintings exhibit a range of artist’s strategies for disrupting the real and reflecting on contemporary consumption and desire.
Seductive and repelling, the works employ subtle humor and the incongruous to undermine the vices and follies that beset humankind.

www.cerihand.co.uk

A group show in two parts, Mimei’s work is in part one.

Artists: Adam King, Alexander Heaton, Alexandra Santos, Anna Dickerson, Bruce Ingram, Caroline List, Celia Hempton, Chris Gilvan-Cartwright, Covadonga Valdes, Cristina Marignoli, Daisy Richardson, Dana Suckling, Daehun Kwon, Dilys Finlay-Stephens, DJ Roberts, Emma Wieslander, Farah Syed, Fiona MacDonald, Freya Douglas-Morris, Gavin Maughfling, Gemma Coyle, Germaine Hampton, Glauce Cerveira, Guocheng Chen, Hannah Brown, Hannah Kaye, Hannah Knox, Helen Melland, Hermione Carline, Jackie Brown, Jake Clark, Jane Ward, Janet Brown, Jennifer Merrell, Jim Coverley, Jin Kim, John Holland, Joseph Richards, Julie Umerle, Jung Mi, Junghee, Kate Coxmiller, Katherine Kicinski, Katherine Russell, Lara Viana, Louisa Chambers, Lucie Winterson, Madeleine Hunter, Madeleine Strindberg, Marie Mackay, Matthew Stradling, Mia Taylor, Miho Sato, Mike Stoakes, Mimei Thompson, Mindy Lee, Nadine Feinson, Nerys Mathias, Nick Fox, Odette England, Pei-Chun Liu, Phil Dobson, Roger Kite, Rosalind Davis, Rose Gibbs, Sarah Sparkes, Shelagh Wakely, Simon Nixon, Sophie Aston, Sophie Baker, Sophie Bedingham-Smith, Theo Kaccoufa, Tobi Deeson, Tom Ranahan, Tomas Georgeson, Velika Janceva, Yuco Ota

10.Apr.08 - 15.Jun.08
Wed-Sun 12-6 or by appt; first Thursday 12-9

Private View, 10.Apr.08, 6:30-8:30 pm
Private View, 15.May.08, 6:30-8:30 pm

Contemporary Art Projects
20 Rivington St
London EC2A 3DU
020 7739 1743
info@caprojects.com
www.commentart.com/gallery/Contemporary_Art_Projects

Transition Gallery

Unit 25a Regent Studios
London E8
The Painting Room
12 January - 10 February 2008
Private View Friday 11 January 6-9pm

Combining the romance of a 19th century salon with a multitude of contemporary themes, The Painting Room showcases a comprehensive selection of the most exciting new painting today. The transformative quality of painting’s language, its current vitality and its continuing ability to re-invent itself are all represented, showing how painting today is a multifaceted media of expression where ideas ranging from the playful to conceptual, fairytale to melancholic and historical to ultra-modern combine to reiterate the sheer exuberance of painting.

Henny Acloque, Michael Ajerman, Carolina Ambida, Eleni Bagaki, Kim Baker, Mike Bartlett, Olly Beck, Paul Becker, Patricia Beja, Julie Bennett, Amie Bolissian, Guy Bourner, Andrew Bracey, Joanna Bryniarska, Jake Clark, Jessica Coates, Katie Cuddon, Tahu Deans, Karen Douglas, Sarah Douglas, Annabel Dover, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Katarina Forss, Marenka Gabeler, Patrick Galway, Kirsten Glass, David Gledhill, Géraldine Gliubislavich, Paul Green, Julia Hamilton, Stephen Harwood, Teiji Hayama, Nadia Hebson, Camilla Hicks, Sigrid Holmwood, Rod Hunt, Luke Jackson, Sarah Jeffries, Annie Kevans, Rebecca Knapp, Adam Latham, Rob Leech, Jesse Leroy Smith, Iwan Lewis, Richard Livingston, Cathy Lomax, Lee Maelzer, Andrew Mania, Kate Marshall, Gary McDonald, Fiona Michie, Alex Michon, Eleanor Moreton, Ryan Mosley, Carlos Noronha Feio, Laura Oldfield Ford, Rachel Potts, Kelly Pretty, Emma Puntis, Harry Pye, Polly Read, Alli Sharma, Emma Talbot, Mimei Thompson, Hitoko Urago, David Webb, Jo Wilmot, David Wojtowycz, Simon Wright, William Wright, Rose Wylie

FLORA Apr 6 - May 4, 2007
Drawings, prints and mixed media works by Mandy Bonnell, Tracey Bush, Julie Cockburn, Claas Gutsche, Helen Ireland, Jane Joseph, Mimei Thompson

THE EAGLE GALLERY
159 Farringdon Rd, EC1R 3AL
020 7833 2674
Wed-Fri 11-6, Sat 11-4 & by appt

www.emmahilleagle.com

Opening on Thursday 5th April

SLIPPERY SLOPE
emma hill fine art eagle gallery
159 FARRINGDON ROAD LONDON EC1R 3AL

Dafni Barbageorgopoulou, Sarah Douglas, Katherine Kicinski,
Ursula Llewellyn, Mimei Thompson
1 – 24 February 2007

The Eagle Gallery is delighted to be hosting a show curated by Sarah Douglas and Mimei Thompson, featuring recent works by four painters and a sculptor who are all recent graduates from the Royal College of Art, London.

Slippery Slope is about the mysterious process of investing materials with energy. Visions are conjured. Spaces, imagery and objects converse between themselves in secret languages. For the artists involved, imagery and form are generated essentially from within and the individual sensibilities of the works come together to create a charged atmosphere within the gallery space.

The exhibition uncovers possibilities of convergences and slippages between parallel psychological, spatial or temporal realities. Slippery Slope explores the talismanic potential of the artwork. The exhibition raises questions about the place of the sacred, the mystical and the ancient within contemporary practice.

Mimei Thompson’s paintings, offer visions of the world in ceaseless replication, with collections of luminous brushstrokes signifying proliferations of organic forms. Thompson recently curated ‘Baroque my World’ at the Transition Gallery, London.

Katherine Kicinski’s abstract paintings layer imagery and blur boundaries - the painting acting as a portal to a site where spaces converge. Kicinski was selected for New Contemporaries in 2006.

Ursula Llewellyn’s elaborate and dense narrative paintings present a personal mythology and reference science fiction, whilst being rooted in art historical tradition. Llewellyn has been selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition in 2007.

Dafni Barbageorgopoulou’s sculptural works often come through dreaming and take on diverse forms, the outcome of which brings together a sensibility that is both ancient and futuristic. Barbageorgopoulou was selected for New Contemporaries in 2006.

Sarah Douglas’s raw and powerful paintings hover between figuration and abstraction, realism and imagination. Douglas was listed in Art Review magazine’s selection of the top 25 graduates in 2005.