Eleanor Louise Butt has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and the UK since 2014, and has been included in group exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Denmark, and Geelong since 2009. She has an Honours degree from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (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 was awarded the George Hicks Award (2012) and has been a finalist in the Muswellbrook Art Prize (2023, 2024), Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize (2023), Waverley Art Prize (2023), Omnia Art Prize (2023), Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize (2016) and the M Collection Art Award (2016).
Eleanor’s work is held in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), and Artbank Australia, as well as in private collections in Australia and internationally.
From 2012 - 2021, Eleanor was a curatorial committee member at c3 Contemporary Art Space. Her work has been profiled in Thalia Magazine (US), Art Collector Magazine, Artist Profile, Art Almanac, Reflektor Magazine, ABC Radio National, as well as online and print design publications.