about
Eleanor explores memory and emotions, using images of landscape - photographs from individual moments and places, often with specific people. She translates those images through different printmaking processes as a way of capturing and preserving memories and navigating and containing unruly emotions. Through traditional analogue processes, she seeks to crystallise the fleeting and intangible into something tangible, tactile and lasting. She is particularly drawn to images of the surface of moving water, capturing its restless and relentless nature.
Eleanor’s work explores the traces we leave in the landscape and the memories, experiences and objects that we take with us. She uses the idea of transitional objects to create tiny things which evoke or encapsulate something much larger; and describe intimate, personal emotions that also have universal salience. Working mostly in printmaking, but with elements of painting, sculpture and book arts, Eleanor uses images of landscape which skirt the traditional notion of landscape art, focusing on what is underfoot or unseen instead of the scenic ‘sublime’. These images tend to be textural and somewhat ambiguous, though for Eleanor there is a strong and specific meaning or memory associated with each one, with the intention that they will elicit the viewer’s own experiences of landscape.
Materiality and the haptic are important aspects of Eleanor’s work, with an emphasis on traditional materials that invite handling and manipulation.
CV
Exhibitions
What We Bring To The Table, Critical Edge Collective, Safehouse 1, Peckham, 21-25 March 2024
Layers of Being, Second Shift Art Collective, Safehouse 2, Peckham, 8-11 December 2023
Gimme Five, Group Exhibition, Made in Greenwich, London, 29 November -13 December 2023Making Conversation – Research Festival, APT Gallery, London, 16-19 November 2023
Convergence, Group Exhibition A-B Gallery, Camberwell UAL, London, 18-20 October 2023
Postgraduate SHOW, Group Exhibition, Camberwell College of Art, London, 3-8 July 2023
Bainbridge Open 23, Group Exhibition, ASC Handbag Factory, London, 14-23 June 2023
Spectrum – Diffusion, Group Exhibition, Bargehouse, London, 28-30 April 2023
Forces of the Small: Project for an Artwork Compacted and Condensed, Group Exhibition, Filet Space, London, 3-7 March 2023
MA Fine Art Pop Up, Group Exhibition, Camberwell College of Arts, 15 December 2022
Degree Show, Group Exhibition, Camberwell College of Arts, 20th to 25th June 2022
[Anti]Static, Group Exhibition, The Golden Anchor, Nunhead, 21 April – 5 May 2022
Treehouse, Group Exhibition, Safehouse 1, Peckham, 15-16 April 2022
Out There pt 2, Group Exhibition, Southwark Park Galleries, London, 29-30 January 2022
Camberwell Interims 2021, Group Exhibition, online, April 2021
First Year Drawing Students’ Group Exhibition, Hotel Elephant, London, 3 March 2020
Pangaea, Group Exhibition, Borough Road Gallery, London, 17-19 July 2019
Awards
East London Printmakers Graduate Marketing Award 2023
Printmakers Council Award 2023
Education
MA Fine Art: Printmaking, Camberwell College of Art, November 2023
BA Fine Art: Drawing, Camberwell College of Art, June 2022
UAL Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Morley College, July 2019
Publications
On Memory online essay at Reflections: A journal of creative research and critical reflection published by Camberwell MA Fine Art, November 2023 https://mafaresearch.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/11/15/on-memory/
Kitkats and Cuppas podcast at Reflections: A journal of creative research and critical reflection published by Camberwell MA Fine Art, November 2023 https://mafaresearch.myblog.arts.ac.uk/2023/11/15/1375/
Commissions
Mesa landscape painting for private client 2019
