Eleanor Daly b.1999 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eleanor Daly is an oil painter. Her work is fast, desperate and colourful. Representational but beyond realism, she paints people and place. Love and Obsession are the driving force of her practice. From Isabelle Graws’ The Love of Painting, she sees the labour of painting as a sacrifice to love.
She draws from autobiographical experiences of beautiful, painful and erotic of parts of lesbian love. She plays with lesbian visual signifiers in the formality of painting. Being a lover makes a better painter and being a painter makes a better lover. In this thought process she hold Fandom at the centre of her practice- it is obsession beyond the self. She views fandom as a mode of theory; it challenges taste, identity and the boundaries of good/bad.
elliehdaly@gmail.com
@eleanord_art
EDUCATION
Goldsmiths, University of London. 2018-2021
BA Fine Art
Oxford Brookes University. 2017-2018
Art and Design Foundation Diploma
RESIDENCIES & ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION
LungA School, Seydisfjdour, January-March 2024
Studio 5 at Porthmeor Studios with Freelands Foundation, St. Ives, March 2023
AWARDS
The Ingram Prize 2023, Finalist
Start x MMG Emerging Artist Prize 2022, Shortlist
Signature Art Prize 2022, Shortlist
Freelands Painting Prize 2021, Winner
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
2023
Han Archives “Toughness and Tenderness By Jody Evans”
Dazed Digital “These artworks explore the erotic tension between toughness and tenderness”
5.18 spring/summer “Issue Four:Tokky Horror”
NOTABLE EMPLOYMENT
Currently: Visitor Experience Assistant, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Youth Platform Facilitator, Peckham Platform, May 2020-July 2022
Creative Peer Facilitator, Dulwich Picture Gallery, September 2021-May 2022
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
“Pool Boy At The Vampire Mansion”, Sundhöll Seyðisfjörður
“Try-Pty-Kon”, Skaftfell & Herdubíó
“Fan Art? Yeah I’m A Fan Of Art!”, 52 Cyprus Street
“Loosing, Looping, Forgetting”, List í Ljósi Light Festival
2023
“Ingram Prize 2023”, Cromwell Place
“Own Personal Jesus”, 52 Cyprus Street
“Universal Love”, New House Art Space & Gallery
“Toughness and Tenderness”, Bermondsey Project Space
“Mollies”, Parlour Gallery
2022
Start x MMG Emerging Artist Prize, Saatchi Gallery
“Two Polythene Bags” Parlour Gallery, Solo Show
South East London Archive at The Livesey Exchange
“The Signature Art Prize” The Bankside Hotel
“Youth Platform X GALA”, GALA Festival Peckham Rye Park
“In Our Bodies” Transfund4london at Curtain Road
“Two Doors” Tart Gallery x The House of Saint Barnabas
2021
“Freeland’s Painting Prize”, Freelands Gallery
“Youth Platform X GALA”, GALA Festival Peckham Rye Park
Goldsmiths Degree Show, Laurie Grove Baths