



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.


Nibble Island
Private View 14th May, 1 - 5pm (as part of Rogue Open Studios)
15th May - 3rd Sept
Saturdays, 12-4pm
By appointment only, contact: Claire.Dorsett@gmail.com
Rogue Studio artist Claire Dorsett invites 8 artists to exhibit on her studio table. She wants them to interrogate this structure, which consists of 4 wooden trestles and 2 pieces of non-uniform MDF (complete with scribbles), in the hope that they can quietly challenge what an exhibition might be and the kinds of spaces artists can use to show their work.
Co-ordinated to open for the Rogue Open Studios weekend, the exhibition acts like a buffet table at a family function: acknowledging the often awkwardness of Open Studio events for artists, the strength that can be found in numbers, the power of having something to stand around and a taste of what these Manchester based or affiliated artists have to give. Participating artists are: collaborative duo Faye Coral Johnson and Mike S Redmond (MSR FCJ), Maeve Rendle, Katie Tomlinson, Kieran Healy, James Ackerley, Nick Jordan and Zac Bradley.
Claire Dorsett
15/05/22
03/09/22
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