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.