



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.


Fertile Grounds & Street Party
Street Party, 4th June, 1.30 - 3pm
Exhibition Opens, 5th June, 12 - 6pm
Longsight Art Space, 89 Northmoor Road, Longsight, M12 5RT
PROFORMA is proud to present Fertile Grounds curated by Nikita Gill at Longsight Art Space. A street party on Northmoor Road and a procession through Crowcroft Park, Longsight to celebrate 50 years of Carnival in the city with costume, dance, food, music and live visual art. Participate in free workshops during the street party and express your creativity through costume.
From 5th June, there will be a supporting exhibition at Longsight Art Space of Fertile Grounds by Nikita Gill, using documentation to explore cultural links between Longsight and Moss Side, celebrating Caribbean History in the City. Partners and supporters for Manchester's Caribbean Carnival include, Fred Aldous, SOUP, AIURRRC, Great Places Housing Association and Manchester Council.
PROFORMA
04/06/22
31/07/22
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