London
b. 1991
Education:
MA Painting, Royal College of Art 2015-2017
Drawing and Applied Arts, University of the West of England 2011-2014
Exhibitions:
Solo
March 2021, Silverfish, www.elizabethdrury.com (part of her Visiting Artist tenure at Harrow School), London
31 January- 17 March 2018, "Objects in Transition", Akara Art, Mumbai
Residencies
August 2020, Residency at the Swiss Church in Covent Garden, London. Kindly supported by the Gibbs Trust
Group/Art Fairs
September 2020, Metamorphosis, A.P.T Gallery, London. Supported by Arts Council England
Feb 2019, India Art Fair 2018, New Delhi
February 2018, India Art Fair 2018, New Delhi
August 2017- September 2018, Travers Smith CSR Art Programme, London
July 2017, Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
May 2017, Under the See, The Crypt Gallery, London
2016, Royal College of Art WIP, London
2016, Secret Postcard, Royal College of Art, London
2015, Synecdoche, Christmas Steps, Bristol
2014, First Impressions, View Art Gallery, Bristol
2014, Synecdoche, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
2014, UWE: Creative Industries Degree Show, Bristol
2013, DAA, Corinium Museum, Cirencester
Awards
2020, Arts Council England Emergency Relief Fund
2020, Arts Council England funding, Re-Enchanted Matter, A.P.T Gallery, London
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
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
Other
Member of the Swiss Church London Readership Board
Published Writing
2020, “Re-Enchanted Matter”, stocked by TACO! London
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
Represented by Akara Art, Mumbai