Eleanor Hall is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Eora/Sydney, Australia. After a long career as a broadcast journalist, she graduated from the National Art School with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting), in 2023 . Primarily interested in abstraction of the landscape, her practice is informed by her daily encounters with the natural world, particularly the ocean and coastal headlands and heathlands of Eora country.
The Rest is Memory - My Debut Solo Exhibition
Tiliqua Tiliqua, Sydney, - June 2026
The launch of my first solo show is a critical marker in my career shift from journalist to professional artist. Graduating from the National Art School was the first step. This sealed the move!
“ I explore the rhythms and patterns of a wild, coastal world, both above and below the waves. It is a world of swiftly changing moods, of ancient weathered cliffs, of oddly elegant flora and sea creatures, all slanted through with shifting sunlight. I create abstract landscape works that capture the sense of us moving through our environment. For me that involves a kaleidoscopic view, a sort of surround sound sense of looking everywhere at once. As an ocean swimmer, I see the landscape from a moving viewpoint above a world with no horizon. However even when we’re not in the ocean, we don’t see the world from a static perspective - we are constantly looking around and shifting our viewpoint. As I’m walking in the Australian bush, my gaze shifts from soaring cliffs to the lichen patterns on rocks beneath my feet, from sun dappling shadows on tree trunks to pebbles in burbling creeks.
