Eleanor Ekserdjian (b. 1996) is a painter and film artist. Ekserdjian’s practice involves projecting the moving image onto paper or canvas and drawing from and over it, her physical and emotional responses being made visible through rapid mark-making. These paintings and drawings become lyrical landscapes which explore her evolving emotional response to the film. Her most recent film and painting series was made during a six-week artist residency in Armenia, and explores cultural memory through landscape. Pepe Karmel, author of Abstract Art: A Global History, defined her work as ‘Poetic, elegant and mysterious — a kinetic, subjective transcription of the world into calligraphy.’
Ekserdjian has an MA Fine Art degree from The University of Edinburgh and attended the Royal Drawing School. Her work is held in several private collections and her recent projects include Hauser & Wirth Residency, Braemar, UK (2024); ‘Crosscurrents Armenia I London’, Redfern Gallery, Cork Street, London, UK (2024); ‘International Diaspora Exhibition’, Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia (2023); ‘Light Pictures’, Seen Fifteen Gallery, London, UK (2023); ‘Imagined Landscapes’, Yerevan Im Ser Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia (2022); ‘Light and Line’, Gallery 286, London, UK (2021).
