Eloise Gillow

Statement

Eloise Gillow is a painter and muralist, working both on a small scale in the studio and on large-scale murals in the public space. She seeks to create imagery that opens up to multiple interpretations, that makes the viewer stop and think and feel.

Eloise Gillow is fascinated by people and how they interact with each other and the space around them, so her imagery centers around this investigation. She is also interested in the technique of painting and its ability to communicate beyond words.

Eloise Gillow trained in realist oil painting for three years and is currently combining these skills with an exploration of other mediums and elements of abstraction.

GlogauAIR Project

Eloise Gillow will create a series of paintings around the theme of “solitude/connection” in the city. Her work over the past couple of years has focused on creating imagery for the public space, in the form of murals. In this residency she plans to largely switch the direction of her focus to creating work from the urban space, gathering imagery from the city and painting in the studio.

Eloise Gillow does not intend to paint either solitude or connection in a positive or negative light, instead to present an honest exploration. There can be necessary, fulfilling, creative, refreshing solitude just as there can be lonely isolation. Similarly there can be overcrowded, stifling, distressing connection or gatherings, just as there can be beautiful, enriching connection.

The artist plans to explore this theme in Berlin in its complexity and without judgment. She will create a series of paintings, also taking the opportunity to explore her technique and mediums, to experiment with her painting.

CV Summary

Education

• Barcelona Academy of Art – Drawing and Painting Program
• University of Cambridge – Modern and Medieval Languages

Exhibitions, Projects and Mural Commissions

• 2021
  • Paam Projects, ‘Dreams of Love’, Raima, Barcelona
  • Klink Studios, ‘Winter Ripple’, El Raval, Barcelona
  • Obert en Canal, Mural in Plaça del Centre, Esparreguera, Spain
  • Dún Laoghaire County Council, The Walls Project, Dublin, Ireland (mural)
  • Wallspot, Guest Artist for Realism Jam, Tres Chimeneas, Barcelona (mural)
  • BAA Group Exhibition, ‘Asómate’, Punt de Vistes, Barcelona
  • Colibree Collective, Colibree on Air Exhibition, Espacio Erre, Barcelona
  • Festival Les Nouveaux Ateliers, Port-de-Bouc, France (mural)
  • Poble Nou Urban District, Windows Art Circuit, Poble Nou, Barcelona (mural)
  • B-murals, 2021 Mural Open Call Winner, Nau Bostik, Sant Andreu, Barcelona (mural)
• 2020
  • Wallspot, Rebobinart, Selected for ‘Womart Jam’, Tres Xemeneies, Barcelona (mural)
  • Wallspot, Rebobinart, ‘Wall Lab’ November Winner. Mural in Sant Andreu, Barcelona (mural)
  • Obert en Canal, Mural for ‘Día D’, Esparreguera, Spain (mural)
  • La Trama Group Exhibition, ‘Cosecha el Día, No Confíes en el Mañana’ , El Sótono, Barcelona
  • Joint show with Sergio de la Flora, Buena Onda Social Club, Barcelona
• 2019
  • Royal Society of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
  • P52 Collective Exhibition, Corretger 5, Barcelona
  • MISNOMA presents ‘The Wild and the Tame’, Mutuo Gallery, Barcelona
  • Portrait Painting Project with refugees in Leros island, Greece

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