Eleanor Louise Butt : Unfolding Fields
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COMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Australian artist, Eleanor Louise Butt (b.1981) titled Unfolding Fields, on view Friday 15th May - 27th June at 37 Chapel Street, Marrickville, Sydney, NSW, 2204. This is the artist's first solo presentation with the gallery.
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.
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"The works are able to remain active through the relationships developed on the canvases, and what I am attempting to do is develop a way of painting which remains closer to that originary chaotic event of mark making that begins a painting."
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