Lizzie Shannon-Little – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://www.lizzieshannonlittle.com/

eshannonlittle(@)gmail.com

Exhibition information

At this ArtWeeks exhibition, you can expect to get a glimpse into the evolving moment of my practice. I will be sharing current works-in-progress, focused on my 2D works in pottery and found objects – as well as zines, my recently released children’s book ‘The Propeller Man and Other Stories’, and a collection of my paintings and collage works. 

** There will be a one-off studio sale of pieces from my art practice archive! **

My current evolving collection comprises figurative abstract works that explore female representation, feminine power, and mythology. Working as a self-taught interdisciplinary artist across painting, textiles, and mixed media, I draw on mythology, folklore, and suppressed histories to reimagine goddess figures and female archetypes. 

Many of my works engage with mythologised women – figures who have been celebrated, objectified, or demonised across cultures and centuries. Through these archetypes, I examine how femininity has been idealised, controlled, and reclaimed, aiming to reframe it not as a fixed ideal, but as layered, diverse, and deeply powerful. To me, engaging with femininity means holding contradictions – danger and celebration, strength and vulnerability, history and imagination -and transforming them into images that affirm the depth and diversity of women’s experiences today.

My practice is characterised by bold colour, physical mark-making, and material experimentation. This physicality mirrors the lived realities of women: constrained by imposed boundaries, yet constantly resisting, reshaping, and reclaiming space.

Artist information

I am an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in rural west Oxfordshire. My academic background in Ancient World Studies, combined with my love of storytelling, deeply informs my creative work, providing rich source material for exploring women’s narratives across cultures and time periods.

In 2022, I was selected for the New Platform Art Professional Development Programme and the I LIKE NETWORKING mentoring programme, both supporting women and non-binary people in the creative industries. In 2024, I completed a self-led residency at Wilcote Arts Studios and joined an alternative art programme with Hastings Art School. I am an Associate of OVADA, an experimental visual arts organisation in Oxford.

Balancing my practice with a career in communications and my role as a parent, I engage with the realities of care and creativity as both personal experience and artistic subject matter. I see my continued practice as an act of resistance and am a Matron Saint artist with Mothers Who Make and a member of Art Working Parents, communities that support the intersection of motherhood and creative practice.