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Hsiao Mei-Lin?Taiwanese/British Ruby Lips Kindly donated by Sir Tim Rice c. 2006 Unsigned (title and artist name on rear) Unframed Oil on panel 91 x 152.5 cm Guide Price £4,500 Originally from Taiwan, Hsiao-Mei has been based in the UK since 1991 when she began her studies at the University of Brighton. She was an outstanding MA graduate from the Royal Academy Schools in 1997, winning numerous awards, including the Windsor & Newton Young Artist Award, the Crabtree & Evelyn Scholarship and the Cyril Sweett Award for most promising MA Painter from the Royal Academy, the Slade and the Royal College of Art. Her work can now be found in many public and private collections, including Chevron UK, Lucas Pensions Investment Ltd, Art Review Magazine and the Fenton Art Trust. She has exhibited widely in the UK – London, Bath, Henley, Oxford and Glasgow, as well as in Geneva and Belgium. ‘ Sir Tim Rice, a prominent art collector describes her work as encompassing “the new, the brave and the ephemeral … her art has developed dramatically and unpredictably over the ten years I have been aware of it. Her collection, Wonderland, is a mysterious assembly of strange beauty, unfamiliar bodies emerging then escaping from shapes in turmoil. Look at these breakaway beings for a little longer and they become recognisable as the very stuff of life, not always fully formed but always more hopeful and enticing than the frenzied combination of rock and cloud they have left behind. Some paintings seem to portray the depths of the ocean, some the depths of space; all illustrate how little we know but how much we can imagine through the eyes of a gifted artist”. ’ extract from adam gallery www.adamgallery.com 36 The Art of Resistance? Defending Academic Freedom Lot 10