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Mimei Thompson studied at Glasgow School of Art, Central St Martins and the Royal College of Art. She has shown in the Saatchi Gallery, as part of the RA Summer Exhibition, the Discerning Eye, Studio Voltaire Open and Exeter Open. She has been selected for Jerwood Contemporary Painters, the Contemporary British Painting Prize, and will be showing as part of the John Moores Painting Prize 2023. (see CV page for more information)

Mimei Thompson makes paintings using images chosen for their symbolic qualities. Her paintings are both process based and representational, with paint marks functioning descriptively, whilst at the same time their physicality, as pure paint and as frozen trace of gesture, remains dominant.

The world in the paintings has a sense of fluidity, and a suggestion that matter is temporarily taking on certain forms, but these can be slippery, transient and mutable. There is an association with animism, where everything is alive and sentient.

Contained in the work is a search for origins and beginnings. There is a longing for rootedness, but fundamentally this connection remains elusive. We are in the realm of the synthetic, playing with the idea of nature, as it is transformed into a luminous, floating, suspended world.links

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Mimei Thompson works in Arts Council Collection
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