Eloise Calandre

I am a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Fashion Communication.

My research investigates embodied space and residual encounter through movement, making and theory. I take the processes and mechanics of photography as a conceptual framework, in particular, convergence of reality and illusion, materiality and time.

I am also interested in experiences of being in a female body and maternal metamorphosis in relation to memory, encounter, sexuality and the supernatural.

Theoretical research includes new materialism, intersectional feminism, threshold concepts, physics of time, crowd mood and proxemics.

I work across a range of materials and media. My visual work has developed from a starting point in painting, drawing and analogue photography, which has moved into digital photography. More recently I have begun to incorporate virtual space with a focus on augmented reality and gaming platforms.  I also have a writing element to my creative practice, with a focus on poetry and autoethnography, and am interested in exploring visual text and spoken word in context of photography.

Exhibitions & Performances

2024 Ambient Occlusion, Dorset Place Gallery, Brighton (15^th March – 4^th April 2020)

2020 Real Time, Seventeen Gallery, London (20th June – 18th July 2020)

2017 Keeping it Real: Harold Offeh & Eloise Calandre, Uniqlo Late at Tate, Tate Modern (Performance: 25th August, 2017)

2016 Undertow, Gippsland Gallery, Victoria (Nov 2015 – February 2016)

2013 Dreamweavers, (touring exhibition)

Western Plains Cultural Centre, NSW (March to April 2013)

Ararat Regional Art Gallery, Victoria (November to December 2012)

Redland Art Gallery, QLD (September to October 2012)

Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania (July to August 2012)

Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania (May to June 2012)

Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, VIC (March to April 2012)

Maitland Regional Gallery, NSW (December 2011 to February 2012)

McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria (October to November 2011)

Gippsland Gallery, Victoria (July to September 2011)

2012 In Your Face, ShowStudio, London

2011 Brittleness, Maria Stenfors, London

2011 Into which I would again, Screen Space, Melbourne

2010 Hold, Screen Space, Melbourne

2010 700IS 2010 film festival, Iceland

2009 Interiors, Anna Pappas, Melbourne

2008 Light Divided, Art After Dark, Blouin Institute, London

2007 Lighthouse, Old Truman Brewery, London  

2007 Situation Leeds, Pop-up Galleries, Leeds

2006 Mothership Collective, South London Gallery, London

2006 Kaleidoscope, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London                                 

2005 Kunst, Kaos, Kraft, FashnRiot, London & Frankfurt

2003 Bowieart, Soho House, London

2002 Paare, Fotogalerie, Mannheim

2002 Eloise Calandre & Richard Galpin, Inside Space Gallery, London   

2001 Behind the Face, Galleria Plastica, Bologna

Publications & Interviews

2023 User Experience Design: An Introduction to Creating Interactive Digital Spaces, Wells, Mark, work featured.

2023 Intuition, Physicality & Movement, article for Brow: No.1. Process. (1 ed.) Brighton: University of Brighton. Collins, E., Wells, M., Calandre, E., Arran, C., Hatfield, D., Findley, J., & Taylor, R. (2023, Apr 1). 

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Mobile Materiality & Glitch, article for Brow: No.1. Process. (1 ed.) Brighton: University of Brighton. Collins, E., Wells, M., Calandre, E., Arran, C., Hatfield, D., Findley, J., & Taylor, R. (2023, Apr 1). 

ISBN: 978-1-910172-34-6

2021 Joy Inside Our Tears: A Discussion Between Harold Offeh and the artist contributors

Interview. https://www.haroldoffeh.com/projects/joy-wellcome-collection

2015 Undertow, exhibition catalogue to accompany solo exhibition of the same title.

Below the Photic Zone, Gregg, Simon, Gippland Art Gallery, Sale, (2015, Nov. 28)

ISBN 978-0-9873896-9-5

2011 Dreamweavers, Gippsland Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue to accompany group exhibition of the same title.

Darkness: A Beginner’s Guide, Gregg, Simon

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The Blues Has Become a Black Dog, Proposch, Steve

ISBN 978-0-9807371-9-6

2001 In Place of Being, feature for

TANK magazine, Brand New Antique, Issue 18 - 2001

Artist Residencies

2007 House Projects, London

2001 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

Photography Commissions

2012 Hairography, Harold Offeh, photography by Eloise Calandre, https://www.haroldoffeh.com/projects/hairography

2008 Covers, Harold Offeh, photography by Eloise Calandre, https://www.haroldoffeh.com/projects/covers

+ a range of portrait and production commissions…

Musicians include: Patten / Radiohead / Boy George / Morcheeba

Film production includes: Little Bird Productions, Ministry of Fear

Other. clients include: TANK magazine, Jerwood Space, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Gasworks Gallery Tate Gallery.