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 Grand Pear Supper
Xhi Ndubisi presents a 5-course dinner with performative presentations for 20 people. Exploring the complex and rich story of migration, the 5-course dinner will take diners through feudal China, the ancient gardens of Afghanistan, over French Orchards and into the British Landscape.
Focusing on the simplicity of a pear, Xhi Ndubisi invites us to enjoy the story of a single, common fruit. The narratives may reveal something about the history of migration. Can we tell these stories without an ideology? What can the story of the pear tell us about who we are and how we have come to be?
Centering the familiar taste and texture of the pear, the event offers a focal point for difficult conversations. Along with ‘who are we?’ and ‘how have we come to be?’ Diners will be encouraged to explore ‘how we hold the contradictions of unity and difference , of being one entity with multiple identities?’.
Diners are offered games between meals, questions written to stimulate conversation at the table and away from it.
Tickets for the event can be booked here.
Xhi Ndubisi
02/09/22
03/09/22
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