In both her work on canvas and paper, Elinor Evans takes liberties with the natural order of things, her aim to better understand the complex relationship between man and beast. In anthropomorphic stunts that echo Classical mythologies or the religious personification of animal deities, she mounts foxes on horses in subverted pictures of the hunt and, in intimate one-on-one encounters, transpses human heads for animals’ to question complacent notions of hierarchy. Ironically too she uses masks in an attempt to expose, as she cuts beneath the surface of these moments of interaction and gets to grip with what it is that binds and separates us.

Elinor Evans is a graduate of Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art where in 2004 she won the Amlin Prize for most promising young artist. Welsh by origin (she won the Young Wales Exhibition in Conwy , North Wales, earlier this year) Evans currently divdes her time between Wales, London and Spain where she exhibits regularly and is a founding member of The Shaman Project, a moving exhibition of music, art and performance that has been based in Salamanca and Bilbao.