Eleanor Ball is a contemporary confessional and conceptual fine artist, working primarily with collage and mixed media. Her work focuses on identity, womanhood and popular culture, exploring how these shape us and where she, as a female artist, sits within female archetypes. Eleanor’s work with collage mixes together both question and answer to conversations of identity, using the medium to create a debate within the artwork.
Eleanor Ball
Woman’s Girlhold explores female identity within the home, tracing the transition from girlhood to womanhood and, eventually, to wife and mother. The piece examines the historical pressures placed on women’s roles within the household, from playing with dolls to performing domestic chores.
A surreal, layered landscape of words and images, Woman’s Girlhold is set within a child’s drawing of a home that comes to life, acting as a dollhouse to explore the complexities of womanhood and its challenges in domestic spaces. The collages draw from art history, examining how women, girls, and mothers have been represented over time.
The work questions how female identity has been shaped by the home and whether these traditional influences continue to impact us today.
