



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.


The Emperors Nu Instagram and The Fall of The Artist Opera
The Emperors Nu Instagram, 25th May, 7.30pm
Paradise Works
Paradise Works, E Philip St, Salford M3 7LE
The Fall of The Artist Opera, 14th May, 3.30pm
Rogue Studios
Rogue Studios, 4 Barrass St, Openshaw, Manchester, M11 2LS
Richard Shields has created a multifaceted work spanning performance, film and fine art. Parodying Italian theatre from Commedia Dell'arte to Opera and contemporary subjects through his devised characters, he satirically dramatises the struggles faced by artists as they balance life and work and social media as they vie for a ‘seat at the table'. Puppets and theatre backdrops echo the themes of the film and performance as Richard performs to audiences who in turn become part of the work and inform his choices as he manipulates himself with illustrated simulacra and online engagement. The fear of failure, imposter syndrome and social anxiety are embraced and forged into a tense and humorous, fourth wall breaking monologue, delivered with an intimate and uncomfortably presumed familiarity with said audience.
Richard Shields
14/05/22
25/05/22
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