Liz Monahan
Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Originally from West Sussex, Liz Monahan is a figurative artist who graduated in 2017 from Norwich U...
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Originally from West Sussex, Liz Monahan is a figurative artist who graduated in 2017 from Norwich University of the Arts with an MA in Fine Art.
During that year she won The Bishop’s Art Prize and was highly commended for her contribution to the Hermione Hammond Drawing Prize. She was also selected for the MA and Other Postgraduates 2017 exhibition at the Atkinson Gallery and won first prize in Connection: OPEN, 2018 at the Handa Gallery, Norfolk. In 2019 Monahan was selected for the Refresh Art Award exhibition at the 5th Base Gallery, London, and in 2020 had two drawings selected for the ING Discerning Eye.
Liz Monahan's paintings and drawings are almost entirely generated from watching and recording human interaction. They are a folding of life into work that draws deeply on people’s connection with each other and their surroundings, and attempt to express something of the ambiguous nature of intimacy, emotion and our place in the world.
Using a synthesis of stimuli, from the written word to photography, sketchbook drawings to half-formed memories, the images are about our ever-shifting connection with others and the endless intricacies of looking and being looked at.
As well as making and exhibiting her own artw...
MA Fine Art (distinction) Norwich University of the Arts 2015 - 17
BA (Hons) English (First Class) University of Southampton 1999 - 2002
2020 The Discerning Eye, online
2020 The Imprudent Portrait Exhibition, online
2020 The Spring Art Fair, Pivotal House, Norwich
2020 'Creative Odyssey', Mandells Gallery, Norwich
2019 Sir John Hurt Art Prize, Holt Festival, Auden Theatre Foyer, Gresham's School, Holt
2019 'Meeting With Myself', St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich
2019 Refresh Art Award, 5th Base Gallery, 23 Heneage Street, London
2018 'Recent Works', Anteros Gallery, Norwich (solo exhibition)
2018 Connection: Open 2018, Handa Gallery, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk (First Prize)
2017 Hermione Hammond Drawing Award, Cass Art, Islington, London (Highly Commended)
2017 The Bishop’s Art Prize, The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral (First Prize)
2016 ‘Dialogues’, St Georges, Norwich University of the Arts
2013 ‘Paint Out Norwich’, The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral