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Eleanor May Watson
Born 1990
Lives and works in Kent
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
Selected Solo and Joint Exhibitions
2022 - A Few Shells, solo exhibition with Brocket Gallery at General Assembly, Mayfair
2022 - Vibrant Life, solo exhibition with Hannah Payne x Meakin and Parsons
2022 - A Light Left On, solo exhibition with Foundry Gallery ,London
2022 - Untold Openings, solo exhibition with Brocket Gallery, Fitzrovia Chapel, London
2022 - Curtains Drawn, solo exhibition at Wilder Gallery, London
2021 - Unveiled curated by Lizzie Glendinning and Mollie Barnes alongside Tanaka Mazivanhanga with Brocket Gallery, London
Between Six and Seven Fundraising Exhibition with Wilder Gallery, London
2020 - The London Art Fair alongside Suzanne Moxhay with The Contemporary London
2017 - Dear Reader, Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Eleanor Watson, New Court Gallery, Repton
2015 - Emma Alcock and Eleanor Watson The Foundry Gallery, Chelsea
2013 – In the First Place The Foundry Gallery, Chelsea
Biscuit. I've kept you half. Joint exhibition with Bartholomew Beal, Mall Galleries, St. James’
Selected Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs
2024 - All This Wrath, Blue Shop Galleries, London
INSIDE/OUTSIDE, Soho Revue, London
2023 - Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair with Brocket Gallery
Eye of the Collector with Brocket Gallery, London
2021 - A Strange Kind of Knowing, Arusha Gallery, curated by Olivia Penrose Punnett
This is Where We Meet, curated by Tim Patrick, Carousel Space, London
2020 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
A Dream is not a Dream, Purslane Art curated by Charlie Siddick
Reaction Exhibition curated by Beatrice Hassel-McCosh
The Birds are Singing in the Distant Woods with The Violet Hour
2019 - Tender with The Violet Hour
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2018 - Art Basel Miami with Cynthia Corbett Gallery
2018 - The London Art Fair with Cynthia Corbett Gallery
2017 - Best of the Drawing Year at Christie’s Christie’s, St. James’
The Drawing Year 2016, The Royal Drawing School, Shoreditch
2015 – Young Masters New York, Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Sluice Art Fair with Paper Gallery
Piercing the Veil curated by Jonathan Sharples, Simmons & Simmons
Small Paintings, The Contemporary London at W10 Space
London Art Fair with Cynthia Corbett Gallery, St. Anne’s Gallery, and Paper Gallery
2014 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2013 - St. Anne’s Gallery - New Contemporary South
Prizes and Residency
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
2015 - Jerwood Painting Fellowship - shortlisted
2014 - Young Masters Art Prize - shortlisted
2013 - The Zabludowicz Future Map Prize - shortlisted
2013 – Down Stairs Gallery Residency, Herefordshire
2011 - Hans Brinker Budget Trophy Award - winner
2011 - Prunella Clough Painting Prize - runner-up
Collections
Dumfries House Collection
Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award
University of the Arts London
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