My research combines critical theory, philosophy and multidisciplinary art practice.

My work investigates the relationship between body, place and encounter, underpinned by intersectional feminisms.

My primary methods blend photography, writing, drawing and performance.

The written aspect of my research combines autoethnographic writing, narrative and poetry. Photography is dominant within my practice. I am interested in examining its visual affects and mechanics, working with each aspect as a conceptual tool for investigation.

For example, light, & shadow aligning with visual tropes in popular culture, or time in relation to block universe theory, movement and theories of collective effervescence, or visual haptics of sight and touch through the lens.

Drawing and performance are also important within my work, exploring gesture and improvisation.

I am interested in site-responsive approaches to making. I work both independently and in collaboration with other artists toward interactive public projects and exhibition. 

Thematic areas of enquiry recently include:

Fantastic of female experience; age and metamorphosis

Shape-shifting, movement and dance

The role of Light & Shadow in photography’s visual haptics

Residual Encounter, the body’s location in time & place

Seeing the Unseen;  histories of mixed reality & illusion

Mobile Materiality & Glitch

Virtuality; relationships between digital space and material ephemera

Eloise teaches Fine Art and Fashion Communication undergraduate courses, where she is active in curriculum development, with an interest in inclusive practice pedagogies. She is L5 module lead within Fine Art. 

Her research informs practice-based and theory-based teaching incorporating the following: public exhibition practice, the body & space, intersectional feminisms, photography, materiality & time, lens-based practice & illusion, contemporary fashion photography, fashion space & performance, future bodies, intuition, playfulness & material enquiry, with specialist skills in analogue and digital photography,  moving image, 3D digital space and mixed reality, writing and drawing.

Eloise holds a Higher Education Academy Fellowship and has worked as a lecturer across a number of institutions across the subject areas of Fine Art and Fashion & Textiles. 

Exhibitions & Performances

2025 Bass Superstructure: Extended Dance Mix, BN9 Studio, Marine Workshops, Newhaven (15th - 20th Dec 2025)

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.