Eleanor Louise Butt is a Melbourne-based artist. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 2013, and a Master of Fine Art by Research at Monash University in 2026. She has presented solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and the UK, and has been included in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Geelong.
In 2019, Eleanor was the recipient of a tenancy at Porthmeor Studios’ Studio 5, St Ives, Cornwall, UK – the first female Australian artist in the studios’ 140+ year history. She was the winner of the Muswellbrook Art Prize for painting in 2024 (acquisitive), the George Hicks Award in 2012, and has been a finalist in further prizes including the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Len Fox Painting Award, Bayside Painting Prize, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, John Leslie Art Prize, R&M McGivern Prize, Waverley Art Prize, and the Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize.
In 2025 Eleanor’s work was featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) in the exhibition The Intelligence of Painting, curated by Suzanne Cotter and Manya Sellers. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Artbank Australia, Muswellbrook Shire Art Collection, Gippsland Art Gallery, and private collections in Australia and internationally.
From 2012 – 2021, Eleanor was a curatorial committee member at c3 Contemporary Art Space at the Abbotsford Convent. Her work has been profiled in Thalia Magazine (US), Art Collector Magazine, Artist Profile, Art Almanac, Reflektor Magazine, ABC Radio National, as well as online and print design publications.
In 2027 Eleanor will be an artist in residence at the Australian Tapestry Workshop, funded by Creative Australia.
