Eleanor will be exhibiting with ArtDog Gallery in the Battersea Art Fair, March 14-18, 2012 Booth A3. Please contact ArtDog if you would like tickets to this event.
Artist’s Statement:
The intensity of the drawn line and the marks are the focus of my work. Found and collected objects are used to draw with in printmaking and the composition and the marks made are informed by the personal relationship to the objects. There is an emphasis on an intuitive and process led approach to image making. The drawn elements enter into a dialogue with chance through etching methods which encourages random marks to happen. I am interested in this form of decomposition both in the image and in the metaphorical sense as a reflection of aspects of society.
Eleanor Havsteen-Franklin was born in Denmark. She moved to the UK in 1994, completing a BA in Fine Art with Psychology in 1997. Following this she trained as an Art Psychotherapist. In July 2007 she finished her MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2010, 2009, 2008
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle as part of the Northern Print Biennale
Creekside Open 2009 (selected by Mark Wallinger), APT Gallery, London SE8
Travelling Light’, WW Gallery London E5 and Venice Biennale, Italy
Guanlan International Print Biennale, Shenzhen, China
Eastern Region Open 2009, Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Norfolk
7th British International Mini Print Exhibition, London Print Studio, Tour of UK Galleries 2009-2010
Printmaking Originals 2009, The Mall Gallery, London W1