Biography
Masters Art & Science Central St. Martins, Born Eleanor Angele Flory Fawcett 1986,
Eleanor currently lives and works in Mumbai/London/Suffolk
As a multimedia artist, Fawcett works with video, drawing, painting, photography, ready-mades, woodwork, textiles, sound and installation. The subject always determines the media and not the other way round. With strong ethnographic concerns, Fawcett’s work has always observed, documented and archived of sorts, customs of different social groups, collectives, subcultures and individuals. The work is engaged in an ongoing dialogue about the spurious boundaries between the practices of ethnography and fine art. Working as a kind of auto-cultural archeologist and a folk ethnographer, Fawcett employs the concept of auto/ethnography rooting out unsung heroes within her own cultural milieu and documenting people that successfully forge a life for themselves outside the conventional parameters of society. Fawcett sees these people as necessary paradigms in an age of homogenised culture.
Education
Central St.Martins College of Art 2011-2013
Camberwell College of Art 2007-2009
Plymouth University, Faculty of the Arts, Exeter 2006-2007
Norwich School of Art 2004-2005
Selected Exhibitions and events
January 2022 Artist in Residence Exhibition , Magna Projects, Suffolk,U.K
December 2021 Thornham Magna Artist in Residence, Suffolk U.K
November 2021-March 2022 'Site' project with Poppy Jackson awarded a-n funding
November 2018 performance on TMKOC (Sony Live TV)
October 2018 Space 118 Studio residency , Mumbai, India
July 2013 A terrestrial cutting and assemblage, Platform, Netil House, London
July 2013 Place of Work, Group Show, East Street Arts Gallery, London
June 2013 Show One, MA Graduation Show Central St. Martin's The Granary Building, London
May 2013 101 more days of Printmaking, Byam Shaw, London
October 2012 A Nervous Encounter, The Old Fire Station, Oxford
August 2012 No Now! Space Station Sixty Five Gallery, Kennington, London
July 2012 Symbolic Exchange & Death, Yumihu Contemporary, Dover Street, Mayfair, London
June 2012 Art & Science Think Twice, V22, Bermondsey, London
May 2012 Experiments, Group Show, Byam Shaw, Central St. Martins, London
November 4-20th 2011 Aggregate, Empson Street Gallery
November 4-5th 2011 ASC Open Studios
August 2011 Ganbare Japan, The Rag Factory, London
July 29-31 2011 The House of Fairy Tales, Camp Bestival
July 5-9 2011 INTERRUPTUS, Take courage Gallery, Newcross, London
April 26-May 5 2011 One for One, View tube, London
April 7-14 2011 One for One, Stour Space, Hackney Wick, London
April 3-30 2011 White Elephant Anthology, INDO, Whitechapel, London
November 2010 Shape and Material, Vyner Studios, London
September 2010 ‘Steve Monster’ Thames Festival, London south bank with House of Fairy Tales
June 2010 ‘Steve Monster’ Installation, Art Circus, House Of Fairy Tales at Latitude Festival
July 2010 ‘Steve Monster’ Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece
June 2010 ‘Steve Monster’ installation, Whistable Biennale
April 2010 Mindsoup 10, 320 Gallery, Bethnal Green London
November 2009 ‘100ft square’ group show in Dalston, London
August 2009 'Swansong' group show at O Art Vyner Street, London
Aug 2009 'Steve Monster' screened at Aeon festival, Shobrooke Park, Devon.
June 2009 'Steve Monster' at 'Showtime' Camberwell College of Arts
August 2008 ‘paint me dance’ screened at Aeon festival, Crediton, Devon.
March 2008 ‘Texas T/Studio Archive’ Solo show, House Gallery, Camberwell
March 2008 ‘140’ Group show in Area 10, Peckham
Feb 2008 ‘Fry up’ Rock steady Eddies, Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell, London
March 2007 ‘Surrender Dorothy’ Performance with Shibby Shitegeist, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
December 2007 Mail art project curated by David Dellafiora, Field Study, Australia.
December 2005 Solo show, Playhouse Theatre Norwich
Aug 2005 'Simply Eclectic', St. Margaret’s Church St Benedicts st. Norwich.