British artist Angela Lizon applies oil paint to elevate found objects and photographs exploring often taboo subject matter, which emphasizes historical boundaries placed onto the genre itself. She repositions the cultural status of discarded objects by repurposing them, relying on the oil media’s entrenched value as the new and desirable context.

Born in 1962 in London, Lizon began her artistic career practicing figurative painting and abstract minimalism. She graduated from Bristol Polytechnic in 1986 and received a scholarship for postgraduate study at the Krakow Academy of Fine Art in Poland that same year. After moving away from her abstract practice, she began working in traditional oil paintings. Lizon received the Threadneedle Prize in painting in 2010 and the John Moores painting prize in 2012. She currently lives and works in Bristol.