Angela Lizon

* * *  STOP PRESS AUGUST 2010 * * *

Angela Lizon accepted by Mall Galleries for The Threadneedle PrIze Exhibition for painting and sculpture  2 - 18 September 2010

The Threadneedle Prize exhibition is one of the UK'S leading showcase for contemporary figurative and representational art, selected by a panel of three highly respected art experts: Dr Xavier Bray, Assistant Curator at the National Gallery and Curator of the hugely successful The Scared Made Real exhibition, David Rayson, Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art, and Michael Sandle RA, whose sculpture, Twentieth Century Memorial, was exhibited in the Tate's Duveen Gallery in 2008.

* * * STOP PRESS JULY 2010 * * *

ANGELA LIZON  HANGS ABOVE TRACY EMIN AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION 2010

The Modern Artists Gallery is delighted to announce Angela Lizon has been selected for the prestigious Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London.     Angela Lizon's Cowboy Joe from Mexico placed provocatively next to a Tracy Emin, has proved to be one of the hits of this year's show. Sold at the opening, the image is  now being reproduced as an RA postcard and features in the Royal Academy Snapshot Guide  among other illustrious paintings by David Hockney, Georg Baselitz and Yinka Shinibare.

Angela Lizon 

Education

BA Fine Art  Bristol Polytechnic
Gaining a scholarship  funded by the Polish government and the British Arts Council for post-graduate study at  Krakow Academy of Fine Art in Poland.

Work for television and film has included a portrait of Hitler for a short film, a portrait of Prince William for a programme to mark his 18th birthday, a drawing of Anne of Cleves in the style of Holbein and cave drawings of pop icons in the Redcliffe Caves in Bristol.

Colossal Cats Series 

Angela Lizon Colossal Cats  were initially painted as an escape route from her abstract work, which she decided had offered up all its possibilities  Since becoming interested in the conversion process that happens when turning a photo of a kitten, cynically produced to appeal to children, into a large-scale fine art painting - making a kitsch image desirable. 

"Having two daughters and being surrounded by all things pink, fluffy and kitsch for eleven years - it seems only natural that this has fed into my work.     The large scale of the paintings owes more to George Stubbs' study of a horse (Whistejacket) in the National Gallery, London, than to Jeff Koons or other post-modernists painters."    Angela Lizon  Modern Artists Gallery Berkshsire

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Modern Artists Gallery Berkshire  - ongoing work 2007/08/09/2010
Marlow Art Collection, The National Theatre, London and touring
Fresh Art, The Barbican, London
Polish Ministry of Art and Culture, Krakow
Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton
Eye Gallery, Bristol
Artisans Gallery, Bath
The Laing Collection, The Mall Galleries, London
Saville Row Gallery, Bath
Bruton St Gallery, London
The Old Vic, Bristol
The Pastel Society (prize winner), The Mall Galleries, London
Portobello Open, London
Art on Tour, Bristol
The Schoolhouse Gallery, Bath
Maritime Museum, Exeter
Red Dot Gallery Thame

COLLECTIONS

Cameron McKenna
Broadcast Film & Video Ltd
BDH Design & Direction Ltd