Eleanor Noir: Sublunary

Eleanor Noir

‘Sublunary’ is a series of paintings inspired by the natural world, reflecting upon the boundaries

between being wild and domesticated.

Eleanor Noir (b. 1991) is a visual artist living and working on Kaurna Land. Her work is a synthesis

of figurative, landscape and floral painting. Through poetic geometric compositions, her paintings

explore impermanence, solastalgia and connection/disconnection with the natural world.

In 2012 she received her BVA from Adelaide Central School of Art, following which she undertook

further studies in perceptual painting and drawing in France and the USA. In 2015, she was

awarded an Australia Council Art Start grant to study life drawing and structural anatomy at the

Art Students League of New York, USA and to undertake self-directed studies in the museums of

NYC. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the Pro Hart

Scholarship, Australia Council Art Start Grant, the Waterway Fellowship, the Tanza Lorraine Smith

Fellowship and the Carbins Trust Prize. Most recently, her self-portraits ‘Our Solitary Burdens/As

the Tides Rise’ and ‘Wintering’ have been selected as finalists for the Doug Moran National

Portrait Prize (2019, 2021).

Her work has been exhibited in Australia, Spain and the USA - including at the South Australian

Museum (Australia), the European Museum of Modern Art MEAM (Spain),