Elliot Kitchener

Elliot Kitchener is a visual artist and graduate of Northumbria University, where he refined his draughting skills and developed a strong foundation in the arts. During his studies, he gained valuable experience by exhibiting his work at the Baltic as part of his cohort’s degree show and working as an invigilator in local galleries, experiences that deepened both his technical abilities and his understanding of the art world.

Elliot’s practice is an ongoing investigation into modernist design, with a particular interest in the movement’s ideas around reduction and the essential role of drawing and sculpture in generating abstraction. His work begins with imaginative, almost automatic sketching, from which reduced modernist structures emerge. Over time, he has developed a variety of recurring motifs - often inspired by the forms of animal skulls - which he experiments with through loose, iterative drawing. Selected forms are then further developed into more refined, often larger-scale renderings that evoke a tangible sense of presence. Deeply influenced by Henry Moore, Elliot draws upon Moore’s approach to automatism and selective development, using it as a framework for his own process. The resulting drawings are sculptural in nature - simulations of unrealised objects that sit at the intersection of concept and form.

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