Lizzie Munn (b.1995) is an artist based in London. Working across printmaking and installation, her practice adopts analogue processes which distance the hand. She completed a BA in Fine Art at Newcastle University in 2018, and has recently graduated from the Royal Academy Schools.
Maintaining a somewhat unorthodox attitude to printmaking, Munn generates sequences of monotypes to be employed as units of material matter in an expansive form of image making. Data and information absorbed from the world is processed through this repetitive act of making, embodied in the meditative movements of rolling and pressing. Her attentive approach allows relationships to form through colour, surface and volume. Paper becomes object, to be overlaid and rearranged, constructing modular print-based installations which are shaped by their environment.
Education
2021-24 Postgraduate Diploma, Royal Academy Schools, London
2014-18 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), Newcastle University
2017 Erasmus Exchange, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Jan 2025 Magic shapes, Standpoint, London
June 2024 Royal Academy Schools Show 2024, Royal Academy of Arts, London
June 2024 The sun speaks, Bond Street Flag commission 2024, Art in Mayfair and Royal Academy of Arts, London
July 2023 The gold brow plumbs the blue, Royal Academy of Arts, London
June 2019 the loving treatment, Creekside Projects, London
Sept 2018 Ode to Number Four, 36 Gallery, Newcastle
Selected Group Exhibitions
Mar 2025 Drawing Now Paris 2025, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, Paris
Jan 2025 Monotypes, Messums, London
Nov 2024 Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking Exhibition, London
Oct 2024 Unreal city: Abstract painting in London, Saatchi Gallery, London
Oct 2024 As it is, Commonage Projects and No Show Space, London
Sept 2024 Slow Motion, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London
Mar 2023 Premiums- Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Aug 2022 Working on a Dream, APT Gallery, Deptford, London
Apr 2022 Royal Academy Schools Class of 2024, The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, London
July 2021 Friends with Benefits, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London
Nov 2019 Perhaps we should have stayed, Warbling Collective, Hoxton 253, London
Oct 2019 Catamaran, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
June 2019 PAINT, PS Mirabel Painting Prize 2019, PS Mirabel, Manchester
Sept 2018 Enjoy it While it Lasts, Deptford X, Creekside Projects, London
July 2018 Julyers: Open Studios, The British School at Rome, Italy
July 2018 Northern Ground: Summer Exhibition 2018, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle
June 2018 Newcastle University Degree Show, Newcastle University, Newcastle, and touring to Unit 8 Copeland Park, London
July 2017 Jahresausstellung, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Germany
May 2015 Fail Better, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle
Residencies, Awards & Commissions
April 2025 Gwen May Trust Award, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE), London
Dec 2024 Clifford Chance Purchase Prize 2024, Clifford Chance Art Collection
Sept 2024 Standpoint Residency Programme (2 months), London
June 2024 Janet Paradise Award for Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London
June 2024 Art in Mayfair Bond Street Flag commission, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Oct 2023 Chelsea Arts Club Trust, Materials and Research Award, London
July 2023 Salaman-Seelig Art Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London
July 2018 Forshaw Fine Art Residency, The British School at Rome, Italy