Lizzy de Mar (b. 2004, New York City) is a sculptor and recent graduate of the BA (Hons) Fine Art programme at Goldsmiths, University of London. Working primarily in sculpture, Demar develops hybrid forms that draw from animal bodies, devotional objects, militarised imagery, and feminised aesthetics. Recent projects include Bunny Bunker No.2 , a permanent concrete shelter installed for the rabbits at the Horniman Museum, and a group exhibition at ESTATE, London. She has an upcoming group exhibition at AKKU Kunstplattform, Emmenbrücke.
de Mar constructs speculative beings and mythologies primarily through sculpture. The work explores kinship, vulnerability, and adaptation in relation to ecological crises and systems of violence, with particular attention to how space is inhabited and reclaimed by bodies at the margins of dominant structures. Softened aesthetics and cuteness function as ways of framing violence: seducing and disarming while making visible the forces that organise and sustain it. The hyper feminine form also becomes a means of undoing self regulation and reclaiming excess, positioning the figure as a monument against containment. Mythology allows the work to move beyond human centred logics and into speculative spaces shaped by ecological and militarised forces. Within these imagined worlds, the work asks how survival, presence, power, and care are distributed and governed.