Cathy Lomax

Cathy Lomax is a London-based painter whose work draws on film, celebrity and the images of female stars. She studied fine art at London Guildhall University and took an MA at Central Saint Martins, followed by a PhD at Queen Mary University of London on make-up and the Hollywood star. She won the first Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2016 with Black Venus and was the Abbey Painting Fellow at the British School at Rome in 2014. She runs Transition Gallery in East London and publishes the magazines Arty and Garageland.