What follows is an intuitive process of applying and removing paint, pouring, rubbing, and layering. Producing multiple works concurrently, a gesture from one painting provides the starting point for the next, allowing abstract forms to oscillate across multiple planes. Within this expanded process of material experimentation, Eleanor’s works emerge as sites for posing questions and seeking answers.

Artist Biography

Eleanor Louise Butt is a Naarm/Melbourne-based Australian contemporary artist whose practice is grounded in studio experimentation. Taking painting as her primary medium, she employs colour, texture, line, and form as strategies for charging surfaces with gestural energy. Expanding these techniques into bronze sculpture and drawing, Eleanor’s work adopts the potentialities of paint to create visual dialogues across a range of media, where action, experience, perception, memory, and art historical references are interwoven.