Lizzie Lilley 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 a RSA John Kinross Scholarship to Florence and was announced in April 2022 as the Fleming Collection’s Emerging Scottish Artist of the Year in partnership with Scotland House, London.
Lizzie’s work is concerned with the slow abstraction of photographic imagery, a responsive process through which images of perceived social significance 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 days, 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.
Her work has recently been shown at Scotland House, London, the Contemporary Six Gallery, Manchester, Gallery Heinzel and the Tatha Gallery.
