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Alex Michon

Country of residence United Kingdom

Michon’s practice is emblematic of 90s Third Wave obsession with punk, girls with guitars, anti-consumerism and the fetishization of ambiguity. Utilising drawing, painting and craft techniques she makes interventions with post-feminist attitudes, creating very personal essays: Decoupages over pages of romantic fiction disrupt concepts of ideal love, and revel in a fascination with dark romanticism. Drawings and paintings of Beatniks, Ronettes, dandies and 50s heart throb Billy Fury, reveal a contemporary obsessional need to create uber worlds of lost longing.

She lives and works in London and studied at Central Saint Martins. She writes for Arty and Garageland, and co-directs Transition Gallery.

Selected exhibitions include: 2005 The English Museum, Transition Gallery. 2004: Girl on Girl, Transition Gallery. 2003 Fanclub, Rosy Wilde, London.

Exhibitions Forget Me, 13.Sep - 14.Sep.08, Fran Richardson, Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, Summer exhibition 2006, 17.Aug - 03.Sep.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Acid Drops & Sugar Candy, 19.Nov - 18.Dec.05, Contemporary Art Projects

Publications Arty - Romance, 2007, Arty - Seaside Special, 2007, Garageland : Beauty, 2007, Garageland : Painting & Translating, 2007, Arty - Dark, 2006, Garageland : Nature, 2006, Arty Greatest Hits, 2004, E9, 2004

 

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