Biodivergent Sites and Sounds Launch Invitation for 17th November 2023 at 5:00 - 7:00pm

Private View here

Thursday 14th September

6:00 - 8:00pm

Open to the public for the Private View - you must book a ticket

Exhibition is on September - December 2023.

I really hope anyone London based (or Greater London/outskirts!) can make it!

Biodivergent Sites and Sounds shines light on the importance of preserving our waterways and landscapes via autistic female led activities. Elinor's paintings are responses to the local stories and sounds found around London's waterways. With creative technologist, Charles Matthews, they have digitalised part of London’s waterways into an online interactive site mapping soundscapes of Harlesden's Canalside. These digital trails will illustrate autoethnographic links with place, community, biodiversity and the natural world, culminating in Elinor's exhibition at Creative Health Camden featuring paintings that illustrate the scenographical sensory soundscapes that she has made in collaboration with other autistic musicians and pupils from Harlesden primary school to examine ‘autistic stimming’ as an act of power, self-expression and creativity.

Alongside the exhibition Elinor will facilitate a workshop and an artist talk event on the Neurodivergent (ND) voice that is often rendered invisible in the arts, and its role in ecological activism. In partnership with the Canal and River Trust, and in collaboration with Neurodivergent creative technologist and musician Charles Matthews, Elinor's digitalised Canalscape will engage wider and diverse audiences in a more interactive way. Grounded in the bass-driven club scene, Matthews' approach to music is raw and tactile: integrating lights, sensors, and vibration to create multi-sensory experiences, equally focused on experimentation and accessibility. Whilst Elinor uses dreamy world-building and ritual in her video/audio, texts and paintings to disseminate timely truths about invisible challenges from an unflinchingly feminine gaze.

Elinor invites Creative Camden Health’s service users to journey and engage with their art practice in more sensory engaging ways influenced by Elinor's site specific and experimental soundscapes of London’s waterways.

Art Publication

Scatterings of Light Art Publication

This is a hand assembled, 28 page, A5, full colour publication where images are printed on Fabriano paper. This art publication explores creative processes through texts and images by the artist to explore where the light gets in. This publication introduces us to a project that is led by a neurodivergent (autistic/ADHD) voice.

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Hello! Welcome to my artist, mentor and arts psychotherapy practitioner page.

I am both an artist and a psychotherapist. I am autistic with ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia so I also offer Neurodiversity training in the arts and my disability training videos have been used by various art organisations such as Oily Cart, Sound and Music, and Daryl and Co, who are dedicated to smashing down access barriers in the theatre, music and the arts.

As an arts psychotherapist, I work with mainly neurodivergent clients or clients whose children are being diagnosed autistic/ADHD and they might want to explore their own neurodivergence. I also work as a mentor with many neurodivergent artists and am the founder of Magical Women, a project for autistic/ADHD women and non binary artists. I am also working towards autistic led art therapy group sessions to meet the needs of so many neurodivergent people who are low income.

As an artist, my practice is moved by feelings of “otherness” offered through the prism of ritual and magic. Using repetitive/rhythmic gestures, my autistic/ADHD/synaesthesia lens explores texture, voice, recorded media & live performance. I layer sound, sculpting it around repeated images from nature. My work has a phantasmagorical feel, overwhelming and immersive, secretive, yet particularly revealing to diverse audiences. It has been compared to a Leonora Carrington psychological landscape: At one level displaying a consciousness echoing an ancient sensibility. At another level expressing something intensely contemporary.

My work has supported/presented by: The Supporting Act Foundation, Arts Council England, Canal and River Trust, The Free Space Project, Drake Music Scotland, Unlimited, LADA, Shape, Tate Modern, Guerrilla Zoo, Hammersmith Lyric Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, Drake Music, Disability Arts Online, and European Investment Bank, Luxembourg.

My work can be purchased from Cole’s Gallery, Leeds and Latent, London UK.

Artist, Art Psychotherapist, Mentor, Postgraduate Researcher

I am a professional artist and work with video, sound, text and paint. My artist CV will be updated very soon.
As an art psychotherapist I work with neurodivergent clients or clients who think they might be neurodivergent and would like to explore that during our sessions. Not all my clients will use art materials and might prefer verbal therapy to begin with. Sessions are person-centred.
As an arts mentor, access consultant and specialist mentor, I work with neurodivergent clients in the arts industries or with arts organisations, institutions and theatres who would like to be more neurodivergent-inclusive.
I am undergoing a research project on a full scholarship at NTU Artistic Research Centre. My Director of Studies is Duncan Higgins.