Eleanor Watson

 

b. 1990, United Kingdom

 

EDUCATION

2018 – September 2019 Masters in Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School (Distinction)
2015 – 2016 The Drawing Year, The Royal Drawing School
2009 – 2012 Wimbledon College of Art; BA Fine Art Painting (First Class Honours)
2008 – 2009 Chelsea College of Art; Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

 

SOLO & JOINT EXHIBITIONS

2017 – Derby Museum and Art Gallery – ‘Dear Reader,’
2017 – New Court Gallery, Repton – ‘Eleanor Watson’
2013 – The Foundry Gallery, Chelsea – ‘In the First Place’
2013 – Mall Galleries – ‘Biscuit. I’ve kept you half.’ Joint exhibition with Bartholomew Beal
2013 – GX Gallery – ‘Dual Exhibition: Benjamin Bridges & Eleanor Watson’

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Tender with The Violet Hour
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

2018
Art Basel Miami with Cynthia Corbett Gallery
The London Art Fair with Cynthia Corbett Gallery

2017
Christie’s St. James’ – ‘Best of the Drawing Year at Christie’s’
The Royal Drawing School –  ‘The Drawing Year 2016’

2015
Cynthia Corbett Gallery – ‘Young Masters New York’
Sluice Art Fair with Paper Gallery
Simmons & Simmons – ‘Piercing the Veil’ curated by Jonathan Sharples
Contemporary London at W10 Space – ‘Small Paintings’
London Art Fair with Cynthia Corbett Gallery and St. Anne’s Gallery, and Paper Gallery

2014
Art Basel Miami with Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Sphinx Fine Art – ‘Cynthia Corbett Young Masters Art Prize’
James Freeman Gallery – ‘The Last Man’
Royal Academy – Summer Exhibition

2013
South Bank Centre – ‘8 Minutes From Here’
St. Anne’s Gallery – ‘New Contemporary South’
Violet Hour – at Theobold Jennings Gallery – ‘Memory and Desire: Part 1’

PRIZES & RESIDENCIES

2019 – ACS City and Guilds of London Art School Studio Prize
2019 – Slaughterhaus Print Prize
2018 – The Royal Drawing School Dumfries House Residency
2016 – The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award – winner
2014 – Cynthia Corbett Young Masters Prize – shortlisted
2014 – The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award – runner-up
2013 – Future Map Prize – shortlisted
2013 – Down Stairs Gallery Residency, Herefordshire
2012 – The Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award – runner-up
2011 – Hans Brinker Budget Trophy Award – winner
2011 – Prunella Clough Painting Prize – runner-up

 

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