• Eleanor Louise Butt’s (b.1981, Melbourne, Australia) practice considers the ability of abstract painting to contain and convey a profusion of...
    Eleanor Louise Butt, Melbourne, Australia, 2025. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

    Eleanor Louise Butt’s (b.1981, Melbourne, Australia) practice considers the ability of abstract painting to contain and convey a profusion of activity and ideas through the complexity of its system. Her layered and joyful interplay of bold form and colour are improvised in the moment, with apt room for ambiguity, chance, and experimentation to collide into an embodied process of creation and excavation. In this sense Eleanor’s practice reflects her phenomenological experience within the world, an extension of her lived experience, grounding her work firmly in the immediate. At the same time, Eleanor’s work speaks to potentiality, looking at not what a painting is, but what a painting can become.

     

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  • Eleanor Louise Butti
    Surge (Cascading Yellow Abstraction), 2024
    oil on cotton
    198 x 168 cm 78 x 66 1/8 inches
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    "Eleanor produces multiple works concurrently. A gesture from one painting could be the starting point for the next... Intense moments of screaming, wrenching, and surprise, and then the pace softens and pointy-points of lightness rise up." 

     

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  • Installation view The Intelligence of Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2025, left to right: Jelena Telecki, Rendezvous 2, 2024, oil on canvas, image courtesy the artist and 1301SW; Prudence Flint, The Bath, 2022, oil on linen, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2022; Eleanor Louise Butt, Within the Garden (Autumn Painting 2), 2022, oil on cotton, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, purchased with funds provided by the MCA Foundation, 2023 © the artists, photograph: Hamish McIntosh

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