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Eleanor Whitmore is a London-based contemporary visual artist working across painting, sculpture and mixed media.
Her practice is concerned with memory, identity, absence, time, home, migration, family, silence, the body, place, objects and human relationships — themes she returns to across long-running, evolving series rather than isolated works.
I am interested in what remains when memory changes.
My work begins, almost always, with something small: an object, a half-remembered room, a particular quality of light. I'm less interested in recording these things accurately than in what happens to them under sustained attention — how they loosen, contradict themselves, and occasionally clarify.
«We remember objects differently after the people connected to them are gone.»
Family, absence and place recur throughout the work not because I've resolved anything about them, but because they don't stay resolved. Identity, similarly, appears less as a subject than as a pressure the work is made under. Silence, in several pieces, is treated as material in its own right — the parts of a painting or a sculpture that are deliberately left alone.
I don't think of the studio as a place where these things get explained. I think of it as a place where they get held a little longer than usual.
A single room, shared with two other painters, in South London.