Elinor Clare Rowlands lives and works in London, creating live art, sound trails, stim-scapes, sound art, paintings, video-audio installations, and other immersive experiences that explore themes of collectivity, ritual, and participation.

Collaboration is central to her /their practice, as she often works with others to develop gothic languages, folk histories, and temporary community constructs.

Her artistic work is shaped by a sense of "otherness," viewed through the lenses of ritual, magic, and sensory perception. She creates by dreamy world-building and always in collaboration with nature. Drawing from her lived experiences of autism, ADHD, and synesthesia, she employs repetitive and rhythmic gestures to explore texture, voice, recorded media, and live performance.

Rowlands’ music and sound art have appeared on vinyl and CD, including collaborations with Ben McElroy, as well as on NMC Recordings’ Letting the Light In (Disabled Composers).

In recent years, she has developed major projects such as Fragments of Perception: An Autistic Odyssey (Immersive Arts) and Retelling of the Wild Woods (DYCP), moving from smaller works into large multiscreen installations while learning alongside Nottingham Contemporary’s Jim Brouwer. Twelve of her paintings and pastel drawings were exhibited with BEAF & Co. in Bournemouth and in Poland, supported by the British Council.

A Disabled and Neurodivergent artist, she has received support from Arts Council England, Unlimited, LADA, Tate Modern, Shape, The Supporting Act Foundation, and many others. Her installations layer sound around repeated images from nature, producing immersive, phantasmagorical environments, at once secretive and revealing and both ancient and at the same time intensely contemporary, that critics have compared to the psychological landscapes of Leonora Carrington.

Her work has been shown, commissioned, or supported by the Canal and River Trust, BEAF & Co. (Boscombe), The Free Space Project, Drake Music Scotland, Guerrilla Zoo, Hammersmith Lyric Theatre, Camden People’s Theatre, Disability Arts Online, and the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, among others.