Biography
Eleanor Moreton grew up in Berkshire and studied painting at Exeter College of Art and Chelsea College of Art. She studied Art History and Theory at the University of Central England. She works in Poplar, East London.
She has had solo shows with Ceri Hand Gallery; Jack Hanley in New York; Maya Frodeman Gallery (formerly Tayloe Piggott Gallery), Jackson Hole, USA; Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh and London; Phoenix Exeter, and has been in numerous group shows at home and internationally. Her work can be found in The Anomie Review of Contemporary Painting (2018) and Picturing People, by Charlotte Mullins (2015)
My paintings are about how I find being in the world. They weave together ideas about family, gender, history, folklore and politics, all overseen by a psychoanalytic eye. Restless, non-fixed, pushing and pulling, dissolving and reforming, they move between the world we 'know' and the less stable world of our imaginations.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Dwelling, Being, Clearing, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, USA
2021 WinterFlower, Arusha Gallery, London
2019 Wodewose, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2017 A Cold Wind From The Mountains, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
2016 Monro Room, The House of St Barnabas, London
2015 California Dreamin’, Canal, London
2014 Tales of Love and Darkness, Ceri Hand Gallery, London
2012 I See the Bones in the River, Ceri Hand Gallery, London, reviewed Art Monthly by Peter Suchin
2010 The Ladies of Shalott, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, reviewed Art in America by Julian Kreimer
2010 Im Wartezimmer, Ceri Hand Gallery, reviewed by Jonathan Griffin Interface, Rob Clark Guardian 10/4/10,
Guardian Pick of the Week, 17/4/10
2010 Im Wartezimmer, The Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds
2008 A Buried Life, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, reviewed The Guardian, October 11, Rob Clarke
2008 Eleanor Moreton Paintings, DLI, Durham
Group Exhibitions
2023 A Closed Door - A Den, Arusha Gallery, Bruton
2023 Generator, Bobinska Brownlee Gallery, London
2022 Once Upon A Time, Chiltern St, London, curated by Flora Fairburn and Katie Heller
Cakes and Shapes, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, USA
2020 Me, Myself, I, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, with Ken Kiff, curated by Rosalind Davis
Picture Palace, Transition Gallery, London
2016 The Classical, Transition Gallery, London, curated by Kristian Day
2016 Sampler, Arcade Fine Arts, London, curated by Kristian Day
2016 Liberties, The Exchange, Penzance, with Helen Chadwick, Rose English, Hayley Newman and Jo Spence,
curated by Day and Gluckman
2016 Telling Tales, Collier Bristow, London, curated by Rosalind Davis, with Gordon Cheung, Peter Davis
2016 Real Lives - Painted Pictures, The Crypt, curated by Barbara Howey
2015 Liberties, Collier Bristow, London, with Helen Chadwick, Rose English, Hayley Newman and Jo Spence,
curated by Day and Gluckman
2015 Strange Attraction, APT, London, with Andrew Mania, curated by Emily Purser
2014 Strange Meeting, Canal, London
2014 East London Painting Prize shortlist exhibition, London (catalogue)
2014 Informal Elements, OVADA, Oxford (catalogue)
Detail, Bangkok, London, Lincoln
Ghost on the Wire, Bermondsey Project Space (catalogue)
2013 Galerie Vidal-St Phalle, Paris, 3 person show with Martin Assig and Maja Ruznic
Rituals Are The Tellers Of Us, Newlyn Gallery, group show with Jeremy Deller, Tereza Buskova
Painting Past Present, Laing Gallery, Newcastle on Tyne, with Emma Talbot, Paul Housley
2012 Let the World Slip, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London, curated by Simon Willems
Regrouping, Bend in the River Gallery, Sheffield, Lincoln, Nottingham and Gainsborough
LEAP, Contemporary Art Society, London
Crash, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London
2011 Make Believe, Magnus Karlsson Gallery, Stockholm, with Armen Eloyan, Ryan Mosley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Jack Hanley, Frieze Art Fair, London
Memory of a Hope, Ceri Hand Gallery
Fade Away, Gallery North, Northumbria,
Art Rotterdam with Ceri Hand Gallery
2010 Fade Away, Transition Gallery, curated by Alli Sharma with Philip Allen, Mali Morris, Clem Crosby,
reviewed by Charles Danby in Aesthetica 7 December 2010
Jack Hanley, Frieze Art Fair, London
Black Hole Hums B Flat, Ceri Hand in Mayfair, with Juneau Projects, Bedwyr Williams, Mel Brimfield
Painting Today, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin,
Behind the Mask, New Art Gallery, Walsall, with Cindy Sherman, Gillian Wearing and Glenn Brown
21, The Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, with David Hockney and Mark Wallinger, reviewed Mark Lawson,
Front Row, Radio 4, 27 July 2010
Art Rotterdam, Ceri Hand Gallery
Stardust Boogie Woogie, Monika Bobinska Gallery
NADA Miami, Jack Hanley Gallery
The Armory Show, New York, Jack Hanley Gallery
2009 Four Women, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, with Liana Dragomir, Rachel Goodyear and Megan Sullivan
Manchester Contemporary, Ceri Hand Gallery, Urbis
Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries, London, selected by Cathy Lomax and Jock McFadyen (catalogue)
Salon 09, Vyner Space,
Ceri Hand Gallery, VOLTA, Basel
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London, selected by Jenni Lomax
Home Truths, Harewood House , curated by Kerry Harker, with George Shaw and Michael Raedecker.
2008 John Moores 25, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Curious and Curiouser, Galleri Rebecca Kormind, Copenhagen (catalogue)
Awopbopaloobop, Transition Gallery, London
Salon 08, VineSpace, London
Marmite Prize, Studio 1.1 Gallery (catalogue)
All My Favourite Singers Couldn’t Sing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
These Living Walls of Jet, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
The Painting Room, Transition Gallery, London
2007 East International, Norwich Art Gallery selected by Matthew Higgs and Marc Chaimowicz (catalogue)
Start a Collection, Contemporary Art Projects, London
Pranvere, National Gallery of Albania, Tirana, curated by Charles Danby (catalogue)
Close At Hand, Contemporary Art Projects, London curated by Nicky Hodge and Gavin Maughfling,
Painted Ladies, The Surgery, London, curated by Eleanor Moreton with Rose Wylie and Emma Talbot (catalogue)
Residencies and Awards
2009 Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts Award
2007 - 08 Artist in Residence Durham Cathedral
Collections
Government Art Collection
Private collections
Bibliography
2018 The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting by Matt Price, Anomie
2015 Picturing People by Charlotte Mullins, Thames and Hudson
2009 Articulated Artists Interview by Ali Sharma, May
Research papers/ publications
2012 The Maternal Elephant
Essay to accompany David Webb’s show at Transition Gallery, November
Suspicion, ‘Garageland’, September
2011 Painting in the Borderlands of Language, ‘Garageland’ July
The Fake and the true l’eye, ‘Garageland’ July
2007 Painted Ladies: some thoughts on translation and the authority of the image
‘Garageland’ April ISSN 1749-9267
1996 Abraham and the Shaping of Absence
The importance of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling in the early work of Barnett Newman, MA dissertation
1994 From Orpheus to Abraham
Paper on the early work of Barnett Newman given at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference
1993 The Death of Painting
Postgraduate Diploma paper
Education
MA Painting, Chelsea College of Art
MA Art History and Theory, UCE
BA Fine Art, Exeter College of Art