All We Like Sheep (The Chosen Ones), Oil on linen, 150 x 100 cm, 2024.
Joie de Vivre, Oil on linen, 40 x 50 cm, 2022
Athena and Ares, Divine Retribution, Oil on linen, 100 x 120 cm, 2025
The Miser and the Hunter of Souls, Oil on linen,
76 x 61 cm, 2026
Angela Lizon
BA (Hons) at Bristol Polytechnic (1983 - 1986)
Postgraduate scholarship (funded by the Polish government and the British Council) for study at Krakow Academy of Fine Art in Poland (1986-1987)
Elected academician at RWA Bristol 2018
Appointed Vice President at RWA Bristol 2025.
Winner of the Jackson's Art Prize 2026
Drawing on the language of 17th-century Dutch art with its ready-made gravitas - mortality, fragility, ostentation - I have been staging narratives using digital collage, photographs, oversized flowers, kitsch objects and ornaments, investigating the tension between high and low art
The aggressive fairies respond to the well-known photograph of a bare-chested Putin riding a horse, which epitomises for me the hyper-macho posturing prevalent in today’s politics. Symbolically shrinking violence and aggression to a minimal size renders them harmless.
My cultural heritage is reflected in the resultant paintings, a blend of Polish exotica and Cockney humour, which influences the work both atmospherically, emotively and aesthetically. Lockdown 2020 gave me time to take an in-depth look at the flora and fauna of the domestic garden and to reevaluate it as subject matter alongside art historical sources. I now grow and photograph my own flowers, using the bouquet as a stage or backdrop, to intertwine my daily living with my art practice.
DRAWING-IN-BREATHING-OUT
Open studios event 14th May, 1-5pm
Rogue Studios, 4 Barrass St, Openshaw, Manchester, M11 2LS
2.30pm - ‘A quiet setting of the feast tables’ by Mike Chavez-Dawson with Jane Chavez-Dawson
3pm - ‘Entering Uncharted Terrain’ Simon Woolham with Gorton Community Voice Choir
3.30pm - The Fall of The Artist Opera a performance by Richard Shields, more info here
Ongoing exhibition
Saturdays 12 - 4pm
Alongside DRAWING-IN-BREATHING-OUT, Rogue Studios offers two group talks.
DRAWING-IN-BREATHING-OUT explores the realms between the drawn and performed mark and each gesture through a variety of provocations and modes of practice.
The artists in this exhibition utilise a number of active and traced drawing processes throughout their practices, from the animated to the bodily. Expanded drawing practices are captured from moments of everyday life, journeys through specific sites of history and narrative, documenting live psychological states-of-mind, re-living and reflecting on moments of trauma or drawing trapped in its own existence, all with a sense of playfulness and unpredictability.
9th July, 2 - 3pm. Group Talk PART 1: ‘Surface, textures of history and narrative conditions of drawing’ introduced by Simon Woolham with Rachel Goodyear, Mary Griffiths, Lesley Halliwell and Andrew McDonald.
16th July, 2 - 3pm. Group Talk PART 2: ‘The performative, reverberations and the social conditions of drawing’ introduced by Mike Chavez-Dawson with Louise Adkins, Jack Brown, Richard Shields and Ruby Tingle.
Rogue Studio
15/05/22
03/09/22
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