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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 | Unfolding Fields, COMA
2026 | Embodied Painting and Entangled Encounters, MADA Gallery, Monash University
2026 | Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, with COMA
2025 | Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, with COMA
2025 | 'Light and Land', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane/Meanjin
2025 | 'The Intelligence of Painting', Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
2024 | 'Slippages and Tensions', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne/Naarm
2024 | Exhibited Works
2023 | 'Yellow Flowers in the Grass', Gallery 9, Sydney
2023 | Spring 1883 Art Fair, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
2022 | 'All That Which Sings', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2021 | 10-metre-long commissioned painting, for Her Bar, Melbourne
2021 | 'Resonant Iterations', Gallery 9, Sydney
2021 | Spring 1883 Art Fair, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2021 | 'Recurrent Compositions', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2020 | 'Porthmeor Studio 5 Paintings', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2019 | Porthmeor Studios, Studio 5 Artist Tenancy, St Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom
2020 | 'Five Years Gallery Anniversary Exhibition', Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2020 | 'Summer New', Group Show, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne
2019 | 'Surface Grip', Galerie pompom, Sydney
2019 | 'After L’Été', Bus Projects, Melbourne,
2017 | 'What's Happening Here?', Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre, Melbourne
2016 | 'Afterimage', solo exhibition, Fort Delta, Melbourne
CATALOGUE ESSAYS
2026 | Jan Bryant, exhibition text, 'Unfolding Fields', COMA
2024 | Laura Couttie, exhibition text, 'Slippages and Tensions', Nicholas Thompson Gallery
2022 | Jan Bryant, exhibition text, 'All That Which Sings', Nicholas Thompson Gallery
2021 | Tiarney Miekus, exhibition text, 'Resonant Iterations', Gallery 9
2020 | Exhibition catalogue, 'Porthmeor Studio 5 Paintings’, Nicholas Thompson Gallery
2020 | Michael Bird, catalogue foreword, 'Porthmeor Studio 5 Paintings', (text only)
2020 | Amelia Winata, catalogue essay, 'Porthmeor Studio 5 Paintings'
2019 | Jeremy Eaton, catalogue essay, 'Surface Grip', Galerie pompom
2019 | Jeremy Eaton, catalogue text, 'After L’Été', Bus Projects
2017 | Laura Couttie, catalogue essay, 'Mnemonics', Lon Gallery
2016 | James Bowen & Eleanor Louise Butt, 'After-image' catalogue text, Fort Delta
2015 | Julie Gittus, 'Encounters with the art of Eleanor Butt'
2014 | Laura Couttie, exhibition text, 'Time Circles', Seventh Gallery
SELECTED PRESS
2025 | Australian Women Artists Podcast, interview with Eleanor Louise Butt
2025 | MCA 'One Thing I Love' video interview with Eleanor Louise Butt
2025 | MCA video 'The Intelligence of Painting' interview with Eleanor Louise Butt
2025 | Artist Profile, review, 'The Intelligence of Painting' at MCA
2022 | The Design Files 'Studio Visit' Interview
2022 | Art Almanac, September 2022 issue, In The Studio interview
2020 | Reflektor Magazine, issue #04, feature article and photo-essay, pages 23-34
2020 | Artist Profile Magazine, issue 52, 'Process'
2020 | Art Collector Magazine, issue 92
2020 | The Design Files 'studio visit'
2020 | Exhibition review, ‘Porthmeor Studio 5 Paintings’ on 106.7RRRfm ‘Smart Arts’
2019 | Thalia Magazine (US), cover interview, issue 7 'The Issue In Between'
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Unfolding Fields
Eleanor Louise Butt May 15 to June 27, 2026. Opening May 15, 6-8pm. COMA
These paintings operate as sites of embodied experience and entangled encounters. They are connected, open-ended events in which no mark feels final, and clarity is intentionally held at bay. In the studio, works are improvised in the moment, allowing intention and ambiguity to unfold through the embodied process of painting. They reflect a desire for immersion within a scene, or within the painting itself. In this way, the paintings function as worlds of their own, connected to the all-at-onceness of lived sensation, unfolding at varying scales and intensities.
COMA, 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney, NSW, 2204. Image: Unfolding fields (claire-voie), 2026. Oil on cotton, 167.5 x 198 cm. (Photo by Brunswick Print Lab).