page_title: Eleanor Gates-Stuart
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Eleanor Gates-Stuart / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Western Australia Landscape by Eleanor Gates-Stuart. Used for her poster for 'Under the Surface' project.
context_page_description: Eleanor Gates-Stuart is a visual media artist based in Australia, born in the UK, whose focus is primarily on scientific exploration and technology, both in the advancement of innovation and in communicating her artistic practice in new and innovative ways, questioning and engaging audiences in art, science and technology. Working with major research organisations, museums, business and government, her scope of artistic creativity and research interests are extensive and includes interactive exhibits and the application of innovative materials such as the Bugs titanium insects and Hot Seeds holographic works.
context_section_description: She was awarded Scitech's Innovation in Art Residency 2016 for her project,Under the Surface based on mining and mineral exploration in Western Australia, in association with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Mineral Resources Flagship. Gates-Stuart's active research involves site visits, such as travelling deep underground at the Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines (KCGM) Super Pit and visiting Data & Core Repositories at Geoscience Australia and the Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) in WA.
  Her multimedia project, StellrScope, was the result of Gates-Stuart being awarded the Centenary of Canberra's major Science Art Commission supported by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government and the Australian Government, 2013. Celebrating 100 years of wheat, from the days of experimentalist William Farrer through to current science innovation of today, CSIRO was the host for this research, engaging Gates-Stuart as the Science Art Fellow. She received a Canberra Critic's Circle Award for StellrScope.
  Gates-Stuart was selected as a participant for the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI), a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine,The Deep Blue Sea 2016, she continues the momentum of the 'think tank' synergy of NAKFI with scientists and artists in the USA. Other international projects include her collaboration with the Orchid Research and Development Center at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
caption: Under the Surface by Eleanor Gates-Stuart
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