Eleanor Crook co-curator Fabrica Vitae exhibition
Eleanor Crook trained in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy and makes figures and effigies in wax, carved wood and lifelike media. She has also made a special study of anatomy and has sculpted anatomical and pathological waxworks for the Gordon Museum of Pathology at Guy's Hospital, London's Science Museum, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She exhibits internationally in both fine art and science museum contexts. She learned the technique of forensic facial reconstruction modelling from Richard Neave and has demonstrated and taught this to artists, forensic anthropology students, law enforcement officers and plastic surgeons as well as incorporating this practice in her own sculpted people.
Following a lifelong interest in Northern Renaissance woodcarving, and influenced by the experience of dissecting in order to learn anatomy, she studied limewood carving at the Geisler-Moroder wood carving school in the Austrian Tyrol. In the interest of making figures more lifelike than the living, using a generous grant from the Wellcome Trust she developed the incorporation of electronic animatronics systems into the sculptures so that her moribund and macabre creations now can twitch and mutter.
Eleanor is artist in residence at the Gordon Museum of Pathology at Guy's Hospital, a member of the Medical Artists' Association, runs a course in Anatomy drawing at the Royal College of Art and one at Camberwell School of Art, and lectures on the M. A. Art & Science course at Central St Martins School of Art and the Forensic and Medical Art Msc at Dundee University. She appears at regular public workshops for the Clod Ensemble and the Vrolik Museum in Amsterdam. She teaches anatomy, forensic and anatomical sculpture intensively at the summer school courses in Oxford at the Ruskin School of Art in collaboration with Sarah Simblet.
Following a lifelong interest in Northern Renaissance woodcarving, and influenced by the experience of dissecting in order to learn anatomy, she studied limewood carving at the Geisler-Moroder wood carving school in the Austrian Tyrol. In the interest of making figures more lifelike than the living, using a generous grant from the Wellcome Trust she developed the incorporation of electronic animatronics systems into the sculptures so that her moribund and macabre creations now can twitch and mutter.
Eleanor is artist in residence at the Gordon Museum of Pathology at Guy's Hospital, a member of the Medical Artists' Association, runs a course in Anatomy drawing at the Royal College of Art and one at Camberwell School of Art, and lectures on the M. A. Art & Science course at Central St Martins School of Art and the Forensic and Medical Art Msc at Dundee University. She appears at regular public workshops for the Clod Ensemble and the Vrolik Museum in Amsterdam. She teaches anatomy, forensic and anatomical sculpture intensively at the summer school courses in Oxford at the Ruskin School of Art in collaboration with Sarah Simblet.
