Eloise Hawser
Residency Announcement
Autumn 2024–Spring 2025
Flat Time House is pleased to announce that artist Eloise Hawser will be undertaking a studio residency at Flat Time House in partnership with Knotenpunkt. The residency will culminate in a solo exhibition at FTHo in 2025, in addition to a new commission to be presented as part of I Find Myself, a Barbara Steveni retrospective upcoming at Modern Art Oxford. Drawing from her longstanding interest in the materiality of modern life, Eloise has been invited to undertake original research into Barbara Steveni's collection of studio materials – specifically over a decade's worth of newspapers – with a focus on Barbara's home-studio in Anstey Road Peckham as a site of artistic production, conversation, and reflection on past endeavours.
Uncontrollable variant TT. 03Jun. 03:06:21 00:09:21, 2022 Found Aluminium Afga CP09 newspaper printing plates from June 2020 – 25 Jan 2022, rods, steel racking Photo: Gigi Giannella
Eloise Hawser is a conceptual sculptor and mixed media artist. Her work seeks to locate our sometimes strained, hidden, or lost relationships with the material world, and dwells on sites and spaces which organise 'material life' in a consumer-saturated society.
Her particular focus on infrastructure explores the systems that discipline and shape our daily lives, whether transport networks or waste management processes. Her work considers the interplay between the histories of sites and those who have shaped them, in turn revealing how infrastructure acts to filter and organise social and material life.
Eloise's approach involves the isolation and/or recuperation of objects and raw materials from their familiar contexts, as well as the insertion of herself into processes and spaces where artists do not usually appear. This entering-in then creates opportunities for public engagement, and her work frequently includes walks and visits to functional sites usually inaccessible to the public - and she becomes a navigator of the roles of observer, agitator, and guest. Central to her project is the sifting-through of our multiple attachments to material things - scientific, practical, emotional, and so on. This exploration has led her to research skeuomorphs, trace waste-to-energy processes, and consider medical technologies that map the human body.
Eloise has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, and was awarded the 2023 David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation grant. With support from Arts Council UK, her ongoing project, Press Tracker, was shown at the London Open at Whitechapel Gallery in 2022. The Tipping Hall was presented at the Istanbul Biennial in 2019 before being exhibited at the Montpellier Contemporain in 2020. Her first UK solo institutional exhibition, Lives on Wire, was presented by the ICA in 2015, followed by a major exhibition at Somerset House titled By the Deep, By the Mark three years later. Group exhibitions include History of Nothing (White Cube, 2016), Weight of Data (Tate Britain, 2015), and Surround Audience (New Museum, New York, 2015). Her work often involves public and collective engagement, such as her 800,000 Tonnes series of waste management tours with Focal Point Gallery (Southend, 2019) and her night-walk A New Way to Set (Somerset House, 2019).
