Lizzy Drury’s work explores the themes of childhood, nostalgia and growing up. She destructs and then reconstructs abandoned teddy bears to express the natural transition from childhood to adulthood. The aggressive manner in which they are disfigured symbolises both the natural deformities that occur whilst being played with and, most importantly, the cruel abandonment of childhood in general. The large graphite drawings are odd, capturing something scarily figurative yet ambiguous emerging from the shadows.
