Eleanor Rodwell (b.1996) / Glasgow School of Art Graduate 2018

Eleanor is a Suffolk-based multi-disciplinary artist, whose practice is rooted in mark-making, the landscape and translating emotional experience. She studied first at Leeds College of Art, before graduating with a BA in Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art in 2018. Her mediums span drawing, painting, printmaking and metal casting. In recent years, she has completed residencies in Catalonia, Norway and Portugal, and last spring spent three months in residence at the studios and estate of Sir Antony Gormley, in North Norfolk. She has exhibited both internationally and within the UK, with three solo shows since 2021. With broad experiences in curation, leading creative workshops and working as a bronze foundry assistant, she now holds a semi-permanent studio with the Suffolk artist co-operative Asylum Studios.

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'My practice has always been driven by drawing, emotional experience and the body. Over the last 3 years, this has shifted to encompass the landscape, now underpinning much of my work. I’ve found walking and being in natural spaces increasingly important and my practice now explores this emotional response to environment. In particular, I’m endlessly interested by where I fit into these wild places, and how other people exist within rurality. My process consists of walking to gather images, forms and observations. In the studio, the collected and remembered are reconfigured, often resulting in the bleeding of figure into environment, and internal landscapes reflected in the choice of colour, form and line. Shadows, disintegrating boundaries and bodily forms explore the movement in stillness, and being shaped by the land.'

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