Sublime and Grotesque and all the art from it

Whilst exploring the multitude of old images I have to upload, I came across some I completely forgot about, and which were put into an Oxford Art Movement - https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=174343539211 - exhibition last year with the theme 'Sublime and Grotesque'. This reminded me of my friend Liza, and sometimes, looking at what we draw, there are some similarities. She draws largely in black and red, like myself, occasionally breaks into insane and disturbing paintings, and her themes include fruit with eyes and birdlike figures half Commedia dell'Arte and half Aubrey Beardsley.

Have a look at one of the reviews of the exhibition here -

http://www.cherwell.org/culture/art-and-books/2011/02/13/the-sublime-and-the-grotesque

And the posterwork she submitted for it (not the best quality upload, but you get the idea).

You can see, in this lovely photo taken in our second year kitchen back in England, the beautiful and talented Liza standing next to myself -cunningly disguised as a skeleton - in the black blouse. If you ever chance upon her in the street, make sure to ask her to see her pictures. 

I would very much like to get some sort of collaboration going while we're both in Italy, and thus will probably return to this theme at a later date, but for now I will upload some of the drawings submitted for the exhibition.