Elinor was Director of Gerald Moore Gallery at Eltham College from May 2012 until July 2018. She was involved in establishing this purpose-built gallery and defining the vision for the space, which has learning at its core. The gallery hosted a range of exhibitions that are open to the public, from new commissions to established local artists, as well as Hayward Touring exhibitions and exhibitions curated by young people. The gallery provided a chance for young people to be involved in the programme through collaborating with artists to make work, curating exhibitions of their own work, leading events and attending workshops. There were three days a week of free outreach for local schools, allowing access to some outstanding exhibitions as well as giving the chance to experiment through art making. There was a busy schedule of classes and events for the public as well as interesting cross curricular opportunities for students at Eltham College.
Image: Laurence Kavanagh 'April' 2012 Commissioned by Gerald Moore Gallery.
April was a development of Laurence's ongoing engagement with the seminal nouveau roman cinenovel 'La Jalousie' by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Ships of Stone took a new look at the visionary artist, writer and illustrator Mervyn Peak exploring a proliferation of islands in works that span Peake's career.
Commissioned by Gerald Moore Gallery 2013
Curated by Lauren Barnes
A new exhibition for Gerald Moore Gallery in 2013.
A new exhibition by Martin Newth commissioned by Gerald Moore Gallery in 2013.
This exhibition proposes a series of conversations between cameras and sculptures, images and objects.
For Material Matters Martin Newth selected sculptural works by three artists: Katie Cuddon, Matt Franks and Nick Pearson. For each of the selected sculptures Newth built a cardboard camera that was made to exclusively photograph each work. The size and shape of the camera was unique to the sculpture it is designed to photograph, and corresponded specifically to each work's characteristics and dimensions. The cameras became sculptures themselves that often resemble architectural models or strange, anthropomorphic beings.
Using lo-fi analogue technology the multi-lens, cardboard cameras were used to make photographic images. These photographs emphasise the materiality of the sculptures as well as the material nature of the photographic process. A dialogue was set up between all three elements of the exhibition: the photographic image, the camera and the sculpture.
Bromley artist Ron Olley's paintings of the First World War were shown alongside official war artists Anna Redwood.
A new exhibition for Gerald Moore Gallery in 2014.
An exhibition developed by St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery and Southampton City Art Gallery.
Shown at Gerald Moore Gallery in 2014
An exhibition by Madi Boyd. This was an immersive, experiential installation allowing people to become more aware of themselves seeing. The Fickle Screen consisted of semi-abstract video projections onto rotating sculptural screens, exploring the influence of space, body posture and tactility on the perception of the moving image.
Supported by Arts Council England.
Shown in Gerald Moore Gallery in 2015.
Tokyo in the Fall was a new exhibition for Gerald Moore Gallery in 2014 that grew out of conversations between Fay Nicolson and Henrik Potter. Work by Jonathan Baldock, Richard Forbes-Hamilton, Sophie Michael, Fay Nicolson, Chris Orlando Page and Henrik Potter.
A new show by Fay Nicolson and David Ben White for Gerald Moore Gallery in 2014.
Play Sense was a new exhibition, series of performative workshops and a symposium exploring connections between learning and documentation focusing on the idea of ‘aesthetic education’ by Fay Nicolson as part of her residency at Eltham College and Gerald Moore Gallery in 2015. The title is taken from Friedrich Schiller’s ‘On the Aesthetic Education of Man’ (1775). Play Sense explores the value of learning through doing and how materials lead experience can be represented through image and text
Works included a series of large-scale, rhythmic screen-prints connecting to textiles and the body. These print/paintings formed the visual and architectural backdrop for photographic works that explored the possibility of developing an embodied aesthetic understanding through play and repeated gestures.
Play Sense was accompanied by a symposium and was supported by Arts Council England.
'Ten' showcased the current practice of ten members of SLWA. The group was established in 2008 to create a supportive community for women artists living and working in South London. This was a new exhibition for Gerald Moore Gallery in 2015.
Death of Nature was part of an ongoing series of paintings by Michael Porter that reflect environmental issues, commenting on how we are willing to systematically change the natural state of the earth and how society seems to have lost its willingness to be part of Nature.
An exhibition held in 2015.
Orbits and Occults brought together a group of eight international contemporary artists who explored the depth, power and reach of the ideology, metaphors and poetics of cosmologies within contemporary culture. Amalie Atkins, Suzanne Caines, Courtney Chetwynd, Alexandra Darbyshire, George Eksts, Charles Ogilvie, Neil Rough and Ehryn Torrell.
Commissioned by Gerald Moore Gallery in 2015.
Curated by Amy Ash.
A Hayward Touring Exhibition of screen prints by Eduardo Paolozzi on show at Gerald Moore Gallery in the Autumn on 2015 as part of a national tour.
A new commission by Dana and Shane Munro for Gerald Moore Gallery in 2015. Members of the Eltham College community assisted with the exhibition's production with the artists commissioning a student to produce an artwork that was included in the exhibition.
The exhibition explored process as a strategy to employ formal and stylistic systems, notions of audience and authorship, and processes of invisibility: redaction, labour and image-revealing.
Curated by Rebecca Holborn.
An exhibition of paintings by Alexandra Darbyshire shown at Gerald Moore Gallery in January 2016.
An exhibition by Rosemary Cronin, Georgia Hollands and Chrissie Stewart responding to Suburbia within their different creative practices.
A new show for Gerald Moore Gallery, 2016.
A Hayward Touring exhibition at Gerald Moore Gallery in Autumn 2016. An original portfolio of 40 photogravures from 1932 entitled 'Wundergarten der Natur', edited by the artist and published in the year of his death.
An exhibition by Rosemary Cronin commissioned by Gerald Moore Gallery in 2016.
A new exhibition that brought together six artists from The Noble Sage Art Collection in London for whom surface in their art has special meaning. Exhibiting artists: T. Athiveerapandian, Ganesh Selvaraj, K. Benthia Perciyal, G. Raman, S. Ravi Shankar and A.P Santhanaraj.
A Hayward Touring Exhibition held at Gerald Moore Gallery in 2017.
A new exhibition for Gerald Moore Gallery by George Charman in 2016.
The exhibition formed part of an ongoing study into objects/materials with embodied potential as 'tools' for engagement - socially, conceptually, critical and spatially.
Youth Uncovered brought together a team of young people from three different South London secondary schools to curate a contemporary art exhibition. The team joined forces in 2015, placing an international call for submissions and making their selection from an outstanding number of proposals. They then worked to shape the exhibition both learning from and leading the professional artists in their research and understanding what it means to be a young person today. Working with artists Diana and Eleanor Burch, Fiona Grady, Linnea Haviland and Andrew J Milne.
Project led by Amy Ash
Commissioned by Gerald Moore Gallery in 2016
Supported by the Arts Council England
A commission for Gerald Moore Gallery in 2017. This was a research led residency and exhibition involving contemporary artists, Amy Ash and Emma Finn, who worked alongside a diverse group of A level students from three South London schools.
A new exhibition for Gerald Moore Gallery in 2017 of Iranian art in collaboration with Janet Rady Fine Art. Works by Afsoon, Ghalamdar, Jason Noushin and Katayoun Rouhi,
Image shows work by Jason Noushin.
A fantasy exhibition based upon an exhibition titled 'Mary, Blinky, Yay!' that tool place at Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2013 and showed the work of Heilmann and Palermo together. In this fantasy exhibition Wilson's work would be shown beside the Heilmann and Palmero.
Shown at Gerald Moore Gallery in 2017.
Tools for the Future was a site-responsive sculptural project commissioned for Gerald Moore Gallery by artist George Charman in 2017 exploring relationships between philosophical aesthetic enquiry and kinesthetic learning.
A group exhibition of works by Stephen Bochonek, Stephanie Farmer, David Hughes, Stephen Rhodes and Geoff Tibbs.
Image by Stephen Rhodes ‘Folded Erasure’ 2017
Commissioned by Gerald Moore Gallery in 2017
A group exhibition featuring work by Gabrielle Beveridge, Maj-Gret Guapas, Poppy Jones, Rose O’Gallivan, Alexis Soul-Gray, Louise Thomas and Hanna Turner-Duffin.
An exhibition hosted in Gerald Moore Gallery in 2017
Image by Alexis Soul-Gray
An exhibition of new works by abstract painter Nikki Hill-Smith was hosted at the gallery in 2018.
A Hayward Touring exhibition hosted at Gerald Moore Gallery in 2018.
An exhibition curated by Ann-Marie James in 2018 featuring works by Rebecca Byrne, Tim Davies, Cristina Garrido, Jorge De La Garza, Mike Goddard, Susan Hiller, Rowena Hughes, Ann-Marie James, Sharon Kivland, Linder, Alex March, Holly Stevenson, John Stezaker.
Image: John Steazaker, ‘Mask’.
An exhibition solo show by artist Hannah Turner-Duffin hosted in Gerald Moore Gallery in 2018.
A new exhibition by Stephanie Farmer, artist-in-residence at Eltham College and Gerald Moore Gallery. The exhibition explored the artist’s concern with the space around and between the painting in a gallery setting.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.
Project and image by Laura Phillimore.