ELOISE LAWSON

Born in 1987;
lives and works in London.
elo.lawson@gmail.com




EDUCATION

Royal Drawing School, London
The Drawing Year

2021-2022

Slade School of Fine Art, London
MFA in Fine Art Media
2016 - 2018

University of Edinburgh
combined BA & MA in History of Art & Italian
2006 - 2010



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Christie’s, London
Best of The Drawing Year 2022
November 2022


The Swiss Church, London
In Nihilum
March 2020
curated by Francisca Portugal, Sasha Shevchenko, & Pia Zeitzen


Casa da Dona Laura, Lisbon
Mellifluous Elephant
March 2019
curated by Francisca Aires Mateus 

The Lewis Barber Shop, London
Salon 63
September 2018
curated by Sasha Galitzine
(Arts Council Funded)

Slade Research Centre, London
Body as Archive
April 2018
curated by Rowland Hill


UCL Art Museum, London
The composition has been reversed
September - December 2017
curated by Dr Andrea Fredericksen

ILYD.NU (online exhibition space for sound art)
These emotions of the body
solo presentation for month of July 2017
curated by Dyveke Bredsdorff


Chalton Gallery, London
Fade to Purple
December 2016
curated by Katarzyna Perlak


Regent’s Canal, London
Pompe (roving procession of performances)
7th October 2016
curated by Sasha Galitzine


Nahmad Projects, London
What is the meaning of this gathering?
solo performance presentation on 17th June 2016
as part of group exhibition ‘I am NOT Tino Sehgal’
June-July 2016
curated by Francesco Bonami



RESIDENCIES

RISD (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Drawing Marathon Residency
5 weeks - January/February 2023


Borgo Pignano, Italy
1 week - July 2022


Villa Lena, Italy
6 weeks - June/July 2020


Casa da Dona Laura, Lisbon
Funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation
1 week - March 2019

Slade Summer School Teaching Residency
4 weeks - August 2018

UCL Art Museum Residency
April-December 2017



AWARDS

The Royal Drawing School Cass Art Prize, 2022
The UCL Art Museum Prize, 2018 (& work acquired by the museum)

Sarabande Fund for Emerging Artists, 2017 (shortlisted)



PRESS


Fad Magazine
‘My week in the art world - Sunday at Salon 63’
by Giulia Trojano
26 September 2018
 

Financial Times
‘The Art Market’
by Melanie Gerlis
21 September 2018


Twin Magazine
‘Salon 63’
by India Doyle
16th September 2018)


Something Curated
‘8 Emerging Artists To Follow From The Slade Graduate Show’
15 June 2018


The White Review
‘Sitting, Scrawling, Playing’
by Emily Gosling
September 2016