Featured Artists – Lizzie Little

Lizzie Little, born 1999, is a Glasgow-based contemporary figurative artist and graduate in Fine Art: Painting & Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art 2017-2021. Drawing is Little’s primary language. Her studies of the isolated figure are not just portraits but resolved character studies emerging onto the paper through diverse hatching and rich linear constructions. Little’s work explores the positive and negative aspects of human existence, as well as lifting the curtain on what happens in the domestic space, whether relationally, intimately, or in the mundanity of everyday objects sitting in our kitchen cupboards.

Through the medium of pencil, Little reinterprets the people in her artwork, and in their cohabiting and interaction within a space, she fuses a relationship and dialogue connecting each piece together. Little has been exhibited in various shows around Glasgow, including recently People and Plates (solo exhibition) at Gusto & Relish, The Scottish Prize for Fine Art 2023, as well Rabbit Skin at the Glue Factory in 2020 and The Alternative Degree Show Festival 2021. Little’s painting ‘The Compromised’, from her degree showcase ‘The Lovers Triptych’, was featured as the headline image in Giles Sutherland’s The Sunday Times review of the 2021 GSA showcase, where he describes the “talented…figurative painter’s” reimagining themes of love and war, inspired by Botticelli’s Venus and Mars.

Lizzie Little is an elected member of the prestigious Glasgow Art Club and is currently represented by contemporary
gallery artpistol, where her work was selected and exhibited in the Best of Scottish Art Schools ‘21 showcase.