London
b. 1991
Education:
MA Painting, Royal College of Art 2015-2017
Drawing and Applied Arts, University of the West of England 2011-2014
Current
Pasts to Come, King’s College Curiosity Cabinet, London, curated by Frederika Tevebring, May - Sept 2024
Residents at Hypha Studios, Battersea, 2022 - present
Residency, nthspace, Torino, 2024
Residencies
Swiss Church in Covent Garden, London, 2020
Solo
Silverfish, Harrow School, London, 2021
"Objects in Transition", Akara Art, Mumbai, 2018
Group/Art Fairs
Holding Cosmic Dust: An Almanac, Swiss Church, London, supported by Arts Council England, Jan 2024, (Hot Desque)
Holding Cosmic Dust, Corinium Museum, Cirencester, supported by Arts Council England, Jan - March 2024, (Hot Desque)
Group show at San Mei Gallery, London, Nov 2022, (Hot Desque)
Is the image even human?, Cervantes, New Delhi, Jan 2023, (Hot Desque)
Terrestrial Act III, Thames Side Studios Gallery, Supported by Arts Council England, 2021, (Hot Desque)
Terrestrial Act II, Lunchtime Gallery, Supported by Arts Council England, 2021, (Hot Desque)
Terrestrial Act II, CCA:Glasgow, Supported by Arts Council England, 2021, (Hot Desque)
Terrestrial Act II, The NewBridge Project, Supported by Arts Council England, 2021, (Hot Desque)
Terrestrial Act I, Theatre Royal Newcastle, Supported by Arts Council England, 2021, (Hot Desque)
It Glows Light, ‘Collateral’ for India Art Fair, Delhi, 2022, (Hot Desque)
Metamorphosis, A.P.T Gallery, London. Supported by Arts Council England, (Hot Desque)
India Art Fair 2018, New Delhi
Travers Smith CSR Art Programme, London, 2018
Royal College of Art Degree Show, London, 2017,
May 2017, Under the See, The Crypt Gallery, London
2016, Royal College of Art WIP, London
2016, Secret Postcard, Royal College of Art, London
2013, DAA, Corinium Museum, Cirencester
Lecturing
Royal College of Art, MFA Arts & Humanities, June 2024
Royal College of Art, MFA Arts & Humanities, May 2024
Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture, ‘Model Village 2.0’ March, 2024
Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture, February, 2024
Northumbria University, 2022
Newcastle University, 2021
Awards
2020, Arts Council England Emergency Relief Fund
2018, Emerging Artist Award, India Art Fair, New Delhi
2017, Travers Smith Art Programme
2015, Shortlisted for the Royal College of Art Hockney Scholarship
2014, First Impressions, View Art Gallery, Bristol
2014, Nigel Kingslake-Jones Prize for Drawing
Publications/ Press
Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine, Feb 2022, (Hot Desque)
‘Terrestrial Act’, publication with text by Anna Souter, 2021, (Hot Desque)
2021, Silverfish, Harrow School, London
2020, Re-Enchanted Matter, A.P.T Gallery, London, supported by Arts Council England
2019, Artist-Curator interview with Lizzy Drury at Ocular Inc with Ellen O’Donoghue, Film and Video Umbrella (FVU)
2018, "Drury's Daring experiments in Drawing", The Sunday Guardian
2018, “Akara Art 2017 - 2018 publication”, Akara Art Gallery
2018, " Elizabeth Drury at Akara Art", Interview with Kastoori Barua, Big Art
2018, "Objects in Transition" by Skye Arundhati Thomas, Catalogue Essay
2018, "The Big Draw", Harpers Bazar India
2017, "CSR Art Programme 2017-2018", Catalogue Publication
2017, Royal College of Art Degree Show Publication
2014, UWE Degree Show Publication
Talks
2021, Silverfish, Harrow School, London
2020, Re-Enchanted Matter, A.P.T Gallery, London
2020, Refugee Week 2020 (film screening & talk to raise funds for the Notre Dame Refugee Centre), London
2019, Art Licks Weekend 2020, London
2018, Mumbai Gallery Weekend 2018, Mumbai
2017, Guest Lecturer University of Reading, Reading
2017, Guest Lecturer Camberwell College of Arts, London
Writing
2020, “Re-Enchanted Matter”, stocked by TACO! London and the Newbridge Project, Newcastle
2020, “Distanced Thoughts on Re-Enchantment”, Dateagle Art Journal
2017, “Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena”, distinction in Master’s thesis, Royal College of Art Library