ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT
BIOGRAPHY
Eleanor Louise Butt has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and the UK since 2014 and has been included in group exhibitions in Melbourne, Geelong, Sydney and Denmark since 2009. She has an Honours degree from the Victorian College of the Arts (2013).
Eleanor was the 2019 recipient of a tenancy at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall, UK - the first female Australian artist in the studios’ 140 year history. She has been awarded the Muswellbrook Art Prize for Painting (2024) and the George Hicks Award (2012). Eleanor has been a finalist in the Waverley Art Prize (2023), the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (2023), the Omnia Art Prize (2023), the Muswellbrook Art Prize (2023), Art Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize (2016) and the M Collection Art Award (2016). She was a member of the c3 Contemporary Art Space Curatorial Committee.
In 2021 Eleanor painted a 10 meter commissioned work for Her Bar, Melbourne. Her work has been included in the Thames and Hudson publication 'Australian Abstract' by Amber Creswell Bell (2023) and profiled in Thalia Magazine (US), Art Collector Magazine, Artist Profile, ABC Radio National, Reflektor as well as online and print design publications.
Eleanor's work is held in the collections of Artbank; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney as well as private collections in Australia, United Kingdom, United States, Sweden, Copenhagen, and New Zealand.
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Eleanor Louise Butt 'Music and Trees' 2021 oil on cotton 1.6 x 10 m
Artwork commissioned by HER BAR, 270 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
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All That Which Sings | Eleanor Louise Butt 7 Oct – 19 Nov | Burrinja Gallery ‘As the image pulls me deep inside of it, a special kind of silence descends, trapping me in its dark spaces and channels of light; releasing its secrets as it carries me across surfaces and down through layers. And…