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Dr Eleanor Morgan is a Lecturer in Fine Art. She uses printmaking, drawing, performance, sculpture and video to examine materials and processes of making across species. This has included making a diamond from the dead creatures of the River Thames, serenading a spider and rubbing fish. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as Jerwood Space, Standpoint Gallery, dOCUMENTA(13) and Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver. Her book ‘Gossamer Days: Spiders, humans and their threads’ examines the history of the human uses of spider silk, from royal underwear in Europe to sticky silk tunics in the South Pacific. See the book review in The Guardian and a BBC radio interview with Eleanor here.
Eleanor is on the editorial board of the journal Printmaking Today. She often uses printmaking to collaborate with other artists, which has included the on-going project ‘How to Rub a Fish’ funded by Artquest and Daiwa project grant and the radical women’s print group 'Printers’ Symphony' . She was co-curator of the ‘Life of Clay’ exhibition at RIBA in London, which examined how traditional and digital clay processes can be combined to create new forms in art, design and architecture.
Eleanor carried out her doctoral studies at the Slade School of Fine Art and the UCL Department of Anthropology. She has been awarded funding from the AHRC, The Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Artquest.
