



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.


Group Show - COMBINE With Me
Mon - Sat, 10 - 6pm, Sundays 10 - 5pm
Taking inspiration from the popular daytime TV cookery show, in which amateur chefs living in the same town each host a dinner party for the other contestants in their own home, celebrating food, creativity, community and hospitality. With this in mind STOCK Gallery brings you ‘COMBINE With Me’, a collaborative art project that brings together artists from across Greater Manchester.
Instead of cooking for each other, selected artists, who each represent a different region of Greater Manchester, have been asked to make a piece of work that responds to the theme of ‘Utopia’. After creating a piece, the artists have been asked to switch work with an artist from a neighbouring or opposing region and respond, add or adjust the work given to them.
‘COMBINE With Me’ is a project bringing together artists from across Greater Manchester in a unique collaborative exhibition. Designed to connect Greater Manchester’s regional art scenes, its aim is to encourage more horizontal community engagement. Recent times have been plagued by uncertainty, doubt and division, with narratives that glorify the individual and self reliance. To contrast this, COMBINE With Me aims to celebrate the collective, and asks the artists to embrace collaboration, compromise and trust in one another.
Kieran Healy
18/08/22
02/09/22
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