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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
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