07/09/2026
Gallery Marquess is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by London-based artist Lizii Chan, opening this week.
Bringing together works from different periods of Chan’s practice, the exhibition traces the development of a deeply personal visual language shaped by memory, mythology and the subconscious. Working primarily through painting, Chan constructs symbolic worlds inhabited by elongated figures, hybrid beings and archetypal forms. These recurring characters appear suspended between states, moving across the boundaries of the human and the otherworldly, vulnerability and power, concealment and revelation.
Chan’s paintings emerge from experiences and emotions that resist direct articulation. Through bold colour, simplified forms and precise contours, she transforms internal states into psychological landscapes. Familiar symbols become ambiguous, while theatrical compositions unfold like fragments of dreams or forgotten rituals. Each work holds a tension between clarity and mystery, inviting the viewer to enter a space in which fantasy and reality, the visible and invisible, coexist.
Rather than offering fixed narratives, Chan’s works remain open to individual interpretation. Painting becomes a threshold through which memory can be reimagined, hidden fears confronted and moments of transformation made visible.
Lizii Chan
7–14 September 2026
Gallery Marquess
3 White Horse Street, London W1J 7LF