About
El creates art & technology based experiences alongside research projects around storytelling, perspectives, social change and the future.
Elinor currently works and lives in London with her partner. She is half Belgian, quarter British, quarter Irish and grew up in Kent. Also known as El, she worked overseas in Sydney for six years and Singapore for two, returning to the UK in June 2020.
Alongside a life-long painting practice, she has had a ten-year career in visual communication and designing both digital and live products, experiences and events. This includes building employee culture through branded learning experiences as a Program Manager in Learning and Development for Google. Time in this division provided deep training in social and organizational psychology, inclusion, equity and well-being, accessibility practices, user experience and learning design. This in particular has great influence on her art and design practice.
She is particularly interested in projects and works that have a positive impact on the world and society. Common themes she explores are body politics, queerness, social constructs in gender and sexuality, mental health, human behaviour and the natural world in waterscapes.
As well as this, Elinor keeps a regular drawing, painting and writing practice on her everyday or travel observations.
Artist Statement
In my current multidisciplinary art practice, I explore parallels between the natural world, womanhood, and the body. I comment on related socio-cultural dynamics such as gender, sexuality, health and body politics. Imagining worlds and challenging perspectives is key to my work. My research frameworks draw on intersectional queer feminist eco-philosophies, biology, and psychogeographic research.
- Digital publication - Across RCA x HSBC, 2023.
- Perspectives on Queer Hedonism, 2023.
- Digital publication - Graduate Diploma end of year, 2023.
- Media screening - MediaWorks, White City, 2022.
- Dream Valley Festival, UK, 2022.
- The Brick Lane Gallery, UK, 2022.
- Graduate Diploma, Fine Art, Royal College of Art - Graded Distinction - 2022-2023.
- Intensive Fine Art Foundation - LAP 2021
- Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design - MIT 2019
- Design Thinking - IDEO U 2019
- UX Design - Academy Xi 2018
- Diploma of Graphic Design - CATC Design School 2015
- Advanced Diploma of Marketing - APC 2014