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Eleanor

Cunningham

Disciplines: Mixed Media

Location: Dunbar

Materials: Acrylic, Monoprint, Oil, Paper, Stitched
Eleanor Cunningham is a visual artist working across painting, textiles, installation, and drawing. Her practice explores memory, transience, and our evolving relationship with landscape, using light as both subject and material. Rooted in a background in textile design and informed by walking as a creative methodology, she creates layered works that reflect the ways experiences accumulate over time. Living near the coast, Cunningham draws inspiration from shifting weather, geological formations, and the subtle traces of human presence in the environment. She often incorporates translucent materials, stitched elements, and hand-ground pigments, allowing processes of layering, erosion, and repair to echo natural cycles of change and regeneration. Light plays a central role, illuminating surfaces and revealing hidden structures, mirroring the fleeting nature of memory. Her work frequently considers ideas of home and belonging, asking how places shape identity and how art can create spaces for reflection and connection. Through immersive installations and tactile surfaces, she invites viewers to slow down and notice the quiet rhythms of the world around them.

Previous Experience

Cunningham holds a Master’s degree in Fine Art from Falmouth University and has exhibited in galleries and community contexts, including collaborative projects that engage with themes of place and social connection. She has a solo exhibition at Dundas Street Gallery in 2025 and a collaborative exhibition with the Cyrenians Charity at the Biscuit Factory in Edinburgh. She has been selected for exhibitions with VAS and the RSW in 2026.

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