Lizzie is a Scottish artist who graduated from Gray’s School of Art in 2021, winning the RGU Arts and Heritage Stand Out Work and Purchase Award 2021. She was also awarded the RSA John Kinross scholarship and was announced in April 2022 as the Fleming Collection’s Emerging Scottish Artist of the Year in partnership with Scotland House, London. Lizzie was the joint winner of the David and June Gordon Memorial Trust RSA New Contemporaries Prize in 2023.
Lizzie’s work is concerned with the slow abstraction of photographic imagery, a responsive process through which images are interrogated and distilled. Photographs with a focus on historical events of social or cultural significance are a springboard for an instinctive process which can take weeks, or months, to complete. The original image is transformed into a study of colour and form: the photograph and the work each a distinct thing, with the resulting work retaining something of the essence of the informing image/s.
CV
Born in Aberdeen in 1987. Currently living and working in Aberdeen with a studio at EP Spaces.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Two Halves, Silver Fin Building, Aberdeen 2020
CUSP, pre-degree show digital exhibition 2021
Onwards, Gray’s School of Art Online Degree Show 2021
Graduate Show at Gallery Heinzel, Aberdeen, 2021
Tatha Graduates Show, Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay, 2022
Habitat, Contemporary Six Gallery, Manchester, 2022
Work on display as part of the Fleming Collection award at Scotland House, London, 2022-2023
Gallery Heinzel Winter Exhibition, Aberdeen, 2022-23
RSA New Contemporaries 2023, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Sown, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, 2023
Some Bright Young Things, Browns Gallery, Inverness, 2023
All the Joy, Tatha Gallery, Newport-on-Tay, 2023
Recompose, Courtyard Artspace, Aberdeen, 2023
Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2024
EDUCATION
Robert Gordon University – LLB (Hons) with First Class Honours 2009
Robert Gordon University – Diploma in Legal Practice 2010
Gray’s School of Art — BA (Hons) Painting with First Class Honours 2021
AWARDS
RSA John Kinross Scholarship Award 2021
Robert Gordon University Art and Heritage Collection Stand Out Work and Purchase Award 2021
RSA New Contemporaries 2023
SSA New Graduate Award - Runner Up 2021
Fleming Collection Emerging Scottish Artist of the Year 2022