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.

Born 1981, Melbourne

Lives and Works in Melbourne, Australia

    EDUCATION

    2024

    • 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

    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

    2024

    • '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, with Pam Brown, Eleanor Louise Butt, Nicholas Currie, Melissa
    • Nguyen, Christopher Theofanous. 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. Featuring the works
    • of Angela Brennan, Eleanor Louise Butt, Leslie Dumbrell, Emma Coulter, Lara Merett,
    • Judy Millar, Nuha Saad, Antonia Sellbach, Noël Skrzypczak, Wilma Tabacco, Kate
    • 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?' Survey exhibition of female abstract painters from
    • Melbourne, with Minna Gilligan, Laura Skerlj, Nyah Cornish, Jahnne Pasco-White,
    • Eleanor Louise Butt, Merryn Lloyd, Anthea Kemp. 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

    2024

    • Finalist, 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

    Private Collections

    RESIDENCIES

    2019

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

    SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

    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