Elinor Stanley

Elinor Stanley (b. 1992, London, UK) lives and works in London.

Stanley uses painting to explore psychological experience, allowing the figurative focus of an image to shift and destabilise. Her work is characterised by high-intensity colour, exaggerated scale and distorted perspective, with repeated bodies and oversized heads creating a sense of movement and disorientation.

Humour and economy are central to her practice. Relationships between figures are shaped through deliberate manipulations of scale, perspective and speed where naked figures are caught in exchanges of tenderness, humour and cruelty.