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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"Lately I’ve been thinking less about imposing something onto the surface, and more about pulling the painting out of the space of the canvas, and discovering it through the act of making. It feels like I’ve got to summon the painting out of somewhere, allowing it to appear. I’m not coming at them with a pre-conceived sketch or a fixed plan, so in the studio I’m scratching around, prowling, allowing space for whatever needs to happen in the painting to unfold. Through this process, I work to reveal some of the secrets that the painting might hold - an unearthing that is limitless and generative."
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Echoed Encounter, 2026, acrylic on cotton, 152.5 x 167.5 cm.
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Artwork
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