Eloise Calandre

Eloise is an Artist and Senior Lecturer in Fashion Communication, specialising in Photography & Moving Image, in the School of Art. Her research practice is underpinned by photography and investigates transitions of space. She works both independently and collaboratively toward interactive public projects and exhibition. 

Eloise has been fascinated by a shift in perception caused by focusing the eye through a lens. This lens becomes a metaphorical gesture. Her research practice has focused on examining photographic space in relation to the real, and more recently, has developed towards utilising interactive technology and 3D virtual space as an extension of conceptual possibilities represented by the photographic. Her research explores technology’s effect on human perception, contemplating our collective immersion in virtual and synthesised realities.

Since graduating with MA Photography, from the Royal College of Art in 2001, Eloise has developed her practice as an artist. She remains actively engaged in research and learning, to inform and contextualise both her teaching and art practice in the wider cultural landscape, gaining Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2015, and completing an MA Video Games Art & Design at Goldsmiths in 2018. Eloise is interested in video games technology and gamification in relation to contemporary art practice.

Projects have included augmented reality mobile prototypes exploring synergy of physical and virtual space, 2D and 3D games prototypes, photographic works evoking emotional resonance of human interaction upon place, public performance investigating visual language as tool for shaping perception, written narratives & poetry, series of animated photographic installations exploring tension between still and moving imagery.

Solo Exhibitions

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

2011        Into which I would again, Screen Space, Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions                            

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

2013        Dreamweavers, 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

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 at Soho House, London

2002        Paare, Fotogalerie, Mannheim

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

2001        Behind the Face, Galleria Plastica, Bologna

Artist Residencies

2007        House Projects, London

2001        Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

Photography Commissions

2012       Tank Magazine, Editorial, Patten

2011       Harold Offeh, Art Production, Hairography

2009       Tate Gallery / Harold Offeh, Performance documentary, Services Rendered

2008       Harold Offeh, Art Production, Covers

2004 - 2015  various Music promotion inc. Patten, Radiohead, Boy George

2004 - 2015  various Galleries (inc. Jerwood Space, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Gasworks Gallery), Art Production & Documentary

2004       Tartan Films, Advertising / film poster, In My Skin

2003       Little Bird Productions, Advertising campaign Ministry of Fear, launched at Sundance Festival