The Garden's Embrace Eleanor Louise Butt Eleanor Louise Butt - The Garden's Embrace
The Garden's Embrace 2025
oil on linen
167 x 127 cm
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The Garden's Embrace2025
oil on linen
167 x 127 cm
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Expanding Yellow Abstraction Eleanor Louise Butt Eleanor Louise Butt - Expanding Yellow Abstraction
Expanding Yellow Abstraction 2025
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36 x 41 cm
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Eleanor Louise Butt is a Melbourne-based artist. She has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and the UK, and has been included in group exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Denmark, Brisbane, and Geelong. She has an Honours degree from the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne (2013), and is a current Master of Fine Art by Research candidate at Monash University.

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 the winner of the Muswellbrook Art Prize for painting in 2024 (acquisitive), the George Hicks Award in 2012, and has been a finalist in numerous prizes including the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Len Fox Painting Award, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, Waverley Art Prize, and the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize.

Eleanor’s work was featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in the exhibition The Intelligence of Painting, curated by Suzanne Cotter and Manya Sellers. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Artbank Australia, Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection, Gippsland Art Gallery, and 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.

Born 1981, Melbourne

Lives and Works in Melbourne, Australia

    EDUCATION

    2025

    • Current candidate, Masters of Fine Art by Research, Monash University

    2013

    • Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art) Degree with Honours. Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

    2012

    • Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

    1999

    • Level IV Certificate in Art/Design, delivered by Yarra Valley Grammar School and Swinburne University

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2024

    • 'Slippages and Tensions', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

    2023

    • 'All That Which Sings', Burrinja Cultural Centre, Upwey
    • 'Yellow Flowers in the Grass', Gallery 9, Sydney

    2022

    • 'Selected Works on Paper', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, (online)
    • 'All That Which Sings', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

    2021

    • 'Resonant Iterations', Gallery 9, Sydney
    • 'Recurrent Compositions', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

    2020

    • 'Porthmeor Studio 5 Paintings', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

    2019

    • 'New Paintings, Studio 5, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom
    • 'Surface Grip', Galerie pompom, Sydney
    • 'After L’Été', Bus Projects, Melbourne

    2017

    • 'Mnemonics', Lon Gallery, Melbourne

    2016

    • 'Afterimage', Fort Delta, Melbourne

    2014

    • 'Time Circles', Seventh Gallery, Melbourne

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2025

    • 'The Intelligence of Painting', curated by Suzanne Cotter and Manya Sellers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
    • 'Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize', finalist exhibition, Sydney
    • 'A Summer Selection: Recent Work by Represented Artists', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
    • 'Quarantine Art Fair', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Point Nepean, Portsea, Victoria

    2024

    • 'Review 2025', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
    • 'Len Fox Painting Award', Finalist Exhibition, Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria
    • 'Yawa Away', with Bradley Webb, Clara Joyce, Eleanor Louise Butt. MADA Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield, Victoria
    • 'Geelong Contemporary Art Prize', finalist exhibition, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
    • 'Muswellbrook Art Prize', winner of the painting category, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, New South Wales
    • 'Omnia Art Prize', finalist exhibition, St Kevin’s School, Melbourne
    • 'Colour is Enough',curated by Dr. David Sequeira, Arts Project Australia, Collingwood Yards
    • 'How to Swim', curated by Sally Anderson, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
    • 'A Summer Selection', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

    2023

    • 'Meridian Foundry 50th Anniversary Exhibition', Fitzroy, Melbourne
    • 'Spring 1883 Art Fair', w/ Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
    • 'Bus Projects fundraiser exhibition', Melbourne
    • 'Within the Without, curated by Storm Gold and Rozalind Drummond, Caves Gallery, Melbourne
    • 'Waverley Art Prize', finalist exhibition, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney
    • 'Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize', finalist exhibition, Bayside Gallery, Brighton, Victoria
    • 'Australian Abstract', book launch and exhibition, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney
    • 'Omnia Art Prize', finalist exhibition, St Kevin’s School, Melbourne
    • 'Muswellbrook Art Prize', finalist exhibition, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, New South Wales

    2022

    • 'Cathedral Cabinet fundraiser exhibition', Melbourne Caves Gallery fundraiser
    • exhibition, Melbourne
    • 'Women in Abstraction', ANZ Level 10 Art Gallery, Melbourne, Tucker and Rebecca Wallis. Curated by James Makin Advisory.

    2021

    • 'Spring 1883 Art Fair', with Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne

    2020

    • 'Hell ‘n’ Back', Caves Gallery fundraiser, Melbourne
    • 'Five Years', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
    • 'Summer New', James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

    2019

    • 'Friends and Family', Daine Singer, Melbourne
    • 'c3 Contemporary Art Space' annual fundraiser exhibition, Melbourne

    2018

    • 'Blindside ARI', annual fundraiser, Melbourne

    2017

    • 'c3 Contemporary Art Space' annual fundraiser exhibition, Melbourne
    • 'What's Happening Here?' , curated by Kent Wilson and Mardi Novak, Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne
    • 'Out Front', Here We See Gallery, curated by Marielle Soni. Melbourne
    • 'Liquid Daydreams', Curated by Sigourney Jacks, Andrée Ruggeri and Jake Treacy.
    • Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne.
    • 'Gardening is not a Rational Act', with David Rosetzky, Sean Meilak, Alice Wormald,
    • Eleanor Louise Butt, Tai Snaith, Eugene Howard, Chako Kato, Kent Wilson, Kate Daw,
    • Kate Ellis. Curated by Tai Snaith. c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne.
    • 'We Are the Ones Volume 1', Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon [CGK Gallery].
    • Curated exhibition showing the works of 100 international painters. Curated by Jordy
    • Kerwick, Galina Munroe, Simon Ganshorn. Copenhagen, Denmark.
    • 'Lor Journal', launch event, Lon Gallery, Melbourne
    • 'Seventh Gallery' Annual Fundraiser, Fitzroy, Melbourne


    AWARDS AND PRIZES

    2025

    • Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize
    • Finalist, Bayside Painting Prize

    2024

    • Winner, Muswellbrook Art Prize

    2023

    • Finalist, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize
    • Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize
    • Finalist, Waverley Art Prize
    • Finalist, Omnia Art Prize

    2016

    • Finalist, Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize
    • Finalist, M-Collection Art Award

    2012

    • Winner, George Hicks Award

    COLLECTIONS

    Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

    Artbank Australia

    Gippsland Art Gallery

    Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre

    Private Collections

    RESIDENCIES

    2019

    • Awarded 7-week tenancy, Studio 5, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    2025

    2023

    • Art Guide, What to see at “the art fair that artists love”, Art Guide Australia, Spring1883 Art Fair review, August 10, 2023
    • Creswell Bell, Amber. ‘Australian Abstract’ book. Chapter 4, Eleanor Louise Butt, pages 28- 33. Australia: Thames & Hudson, 2023

    2022

    • Art Guide, An Embracing Tussle: Five Contemporary Artists on Picasso. May/June print edition

    2019

    • Thalia Magazine, USA, December 2019 (cover image and feature article)
    • Reflektor Magazine, Eleanor Louise Butt, Porthmeor Studio 5 Paintings, St Ives. Pages 23-34, issue 04.
    • Artist Profile Magazine, Australia, issue 52, ‘Process’, pages124-126