Elinor Henry

Interior Design (MA)
A tall blonde white woman wearing black with her arms crossed, laughing.
Film still. Orange silicon seahorse robotic prop, metal and biomaterial seaweed tree prop.
Film still. Orange silicon seahorse robotic prop, metal and biomaterial seaweed tree prop.
Film still. Silicon seahorse robotic prop, metal and biomaterial seaweed tree prop.
Film still. Reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of an underground secret laboratory growing cyborg sensors.
Film still. Reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of an underground secret laboratory growing cyborg sensors.
Film still. Reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of an underground secret laboratory growing cyborg sensors.
Film still. Blue-green reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of river estuary.
Film still. Blue-green reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of river estuary.
Film still. Reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of river estuary.
Film still. Pink lit, reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of an underground secret laboratory growing cyborg sensors.
Film still. Pink lit, reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of an underground secret laboratory growing cyborg sensors.
Film still. Reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of an underground secret laboratory growing cyborg sensors.
Film still. Orange silicon seahorse robotic prop, metal and biomaterial seaweed tree prop.
Film still. Reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of an underground secret laboratory growing cyborg sensors.
Film still. Blue-green reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of river estuary.
Film still. Pink lit, reused, reclaimed and biomaterial set of an underground secret laboratory growing cyborg sensors.

About

Elinor Henry is a multidisciplinary artist, set designer and experiential creative rooted in space.

Her fluid, biophilic creations question dynamics around power, politics and the care of watery bodies [human and non-human] and their vulnerable futures. Through research on aquatic ecosystems, their geological beginnings, and re-interpreted ancient mythologies, Elinor challenges normativity and control of gender, sexuality and the body.

Elinor juxtaposes human rights concerns with the environmental crisis. Drawing on Audre Lorde’s ‘hierarchy of oppressions’, she positions them as rooted in the same injustices. With an Animist perspective and Astrida Neimanis’ posthuman feminist phenomenology, Elinor invites the audience to understand ourselves as being fundamentally part of the natural world, and not privileged to it. Elinor focusses on using discarded, reclaimed materials as well as bio materials in the use of her sustainably-led sets, installations and spatial interventions.

Elinor is currently majoring in SuperFutures platform of speculative spatial design, as part of the MA Interior Design programme at the Royal College of Art. Her time here is supported by the RCA UK Disability Scholarship. She holds a Distinction from the RCA’s Graduate Diploma in Fine Art.

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