Lot 350 - Eleanor Daly - Under her tongue

Oil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About

Eleanor Daly is a figurative oil painter who uses her energetic painting process and confident command of colour to tell stories. Her practice is rooted in a love for the act of painting, and an understanding of the role of the painter as a vessel. Daly’s work is an autobiographical exploration of lesbian dynamics, fan studies and how painting can be used as a means of self-understanding. Using representational images and appropriation of painting’s history, her work is honest, not shying away from humour nor pain.

Education

2019–2021
BA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

2017–2018
Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2022

Two Polythene Bags, Parlour Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2024
Pool Boy At The Vampire Mansion, Sundhöll Seyðisfjörður, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Try-Pty-Kon, Skaftfell & Herdubíó, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Fan Art? Yeah I’m A Fan Of Art!, 52 Cyprus Street, London, UK
Loosing, Looping, Forgetting, List í Ljósi Light Festival, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

2023
Ingram Prize 2023, Cromwell Place, London, UK
Own Personal Jesus, 52 Cyprus Street, London, UK
Universal Love, New House Art Space & Gallery, Guildford, UK
Toughness and Tenderness, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK
Mollies, Parlour Gallery, London, UK

2022
Start x MMG Emerging Artist Prize, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
South East London Archive at The Livesey Exchange, London, UK
The Signature Art Prize, The Bankside Hotel, London, UK
Youth Platform X GALA, GALA Festival Peckham Rye Park, London, UK
In Our Bodies, Transfund4london at Curtain Road, London, UK
Two Doors, Tart Gallery x The House of Saint Barnabas, London, UK

Awards

2023
The Ingram Prize, Finalist

2022
Start x MMG Emerging Artist Prize, Shortlist
Signature Art Prize, Shortlist

2021
Freelands Painting Prize, Winner

Public Collections

South East London Archive, London, UK

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

Straight To My Head and Under Her Tongue (both oil on paper) are born out of their small scale, depicting intimate images of consumption and excess. I wanted the viewer to be aware that they are an onlooker, catching a candid moment of pleasure, literally leaning in to the space of the painting. I used rich colours and thick, energetic application of paint that fills the paper to create this tempting feeling of excess.