Eleanor Louise Butt
ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT AWARDED THE 2024 MUSWELLBROOK ART PRIZE FOR PAINTING
Congratulations to Eleanor Louise Butt who has been awarded the 2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize for Painting. The $50,000 acquisitive award will see Eleanor’s work added to the Muswellbrook collection, which includes previous winners such as David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Richard Larter and Fred Williams. . Established in 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize is one of…
Read MoreELEANOR LOUISE BUTT FINALIST IN THE 2024 MUSWELLBROOK ART PRIZE
Eleanor Louise Butt is a finalist in the 2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize with her painting ‘Yellow and Brown Energetic Abstraction’. . Established in 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize is one of the most celebrated prizes for painting in regional Australia. Astute adjudication of the Prize over the years has yielded an excellent collection of modern…
Read MoreELEANOR LOUISE BUTT ‘ALL THAT WHICH SINGS’ AT BURRINJA CULTURAL CENTRE, UPWEY
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…
Read MoreELEANOR LOUISE BUTT ACQUIRED BY ARTBANK
Eleanor Louise Butt’s painting ‘Unfolding Abstraction, thinking three-dimensionally’ exhibited in Nicholas Thompson Gallery’s Spring1883 presentation has been acquired by Artbank . Artbank is part of the Australian Government Office for the Arts. For 40 years Artbank has supported Australia’s contemporary art sector. Established in 1980 by the Australian Government, Artbank’s two core objectives are to…
Read MoreNICHOLAS THOMPSON GALLERY SPRING1883 EXHIBITION IN ART GUIDE’S TOP PICKS OF THE FAIR
At the sneak peak of Spring1883 at Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel, one gallerist declared the event “the art fair that artists love”. Rather than meaning something insular, they meant the spirit of fun and community when around 30 of Australia’s top commercial galleries (and a couple from New Zealand), situate artwork within the old grandeur of…
Read MoreSUZANNE ARCHER, ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT, JAMES DRINKWATER, TONEE MESSIAH AND AMBER WALLIS IN THAMES AND HUDSON PUBLICATION ‘AUSTRALIAN ABSTRACT’ BY AMBER CRESWELL BELL
A vivid survey of over forty contemporary Australian abstract painters by curator and bestselling author Amber Creswell Bell ‘There is an internal monologue, and a world of decisions and possibilities behind each work that the viewer does not see. Abstraction is akin to learning a new language.’ ANA YOUNG There is no single neat definition…
Read MoreELEANOR LOUISE BUTT FINALIST IN 2023 BAYSIDE ACQUISITIVE ART PRIZE
Eleanor Louise Butt is a finalist in the 2023 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize with her painting ‘All that which sings’ . Established in 2015, the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize is a celebration of contemporary Australian painting. The finalist exhibition brings together a broad range of artists, both established and lesser known, whose varied approaches to…
Read MoreELEANOR LOUISE BUTT FINALIST IN MUSWELLBROOK ART PRIZE 2023
Established in 1958, the Muswellbrook Art Prize is one of the most celebrated prizes for painting in regional Australia. Astute adjudication of the Prize over the years has yielded an excellent collection of modern and contemporary Australian paintings, works on paper and ceramics from the Post War period of the 20th Century and into the 21st Century,…
Read MoreELEANOR LOUISE BUTT PROFILED IN ‘ART ALMANAC’ SEPTEMBER 2022
In the studio: Eleanor Louise Butt 15 September 2022 | Kirsty Francis SHARE “. . . to me they look the way life feels – swirling, chaotic, sunlight flickering, tensions pulling and pushing, in some sort of dance.” Bold compositional lines and forms, gestural marks, a rich golden colour palette, and a textured materiality that springs…
Read MoreELEANOR LOUISE BUTT FEATURED IN ‘THE DESIGN FILES’
An Artist’s Home Bursting With Her Own Beautiful Golden-Toned Paintings STUDIO VISIT If Eleanor Louise Butt’s expressive paintings look familiar, it’s because the artist has already made her colourful mark on the local and international art scene. We featured Eleanor back in 2020, (when she was on residency in Cornwall, UK!) but you might also recognise her…
Read More