Eldi Dundee is a NY born dual-national artist who has lived in London more than half her life. Her practice consists of an interchange of painting, photography, assemblage, performance, installation, writing, drawing and sculpture. Dundee studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts for her MA, University of East London for a postgraduate certificate, and Byam Shaw (under the umbrella of Central St Martins / University of the Arts London) for her undergraduate degree. She has a background in performance (acting & singing), and studied Human Ecology in America before emigrating to the UK.
Eldi Dundee is a NY born dual-national artist who has lived in London more than half her life. Her practice consists of an interchange of painting, photography, assemblage, performance, installation, writing, drawing and sculpture. Dundee studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts for her MA, University of East London for a postgraduate certificate, and Byam Shaw (under the umbrella of Central St Martins / University of the Arts London) for her undergraduate degree. She has a background in performance (acting & singing), and studied Human Ecology in America before emigrating to the UK.
Alongside her art practice and the occasional acting job, she has taught art at primary and secondary school levels (KS2, 3 & 4), drama and movement at FE levels (BTEC L1-3), coordinated a programme of lectures for an alternative postgraduate art school, has acted as peer mentor on postgraduate art courses, edited publications and websites, and currently juggles being in a research role on a feminist social history project with working in the Art Department for a feature film (in production) as a set dresser, all while raising a teenager as a single parent.
Education
2017 UAL: Teaching and Learning Exchange, CENTRAL ST MARTINS / University of Arts London 'Thinking Teaching' Certificate
2017 OPEN UNIVERSITY / BA (Hons) Humanities with Art History
2016 CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART / University of the Arts London MA Fine Art
2009 UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON Postgraduate Certificate Fine Art
2009 CENTRAL ST MARTINS, BYAM SHAW / University of Arts London FdA Fine Art Skills & Practices
1992 - 2003 HB STUDIOS, THE ACTORS' CENTRE, THE ACTORS INSTITUTE, CITY LIT, WEEKEND ARTS COLLEGE and QUESTORS THEATRE, NY & London Acting / Performance & Directing
1992 COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC Maine, USA Human Ecology
Exhibitions / Performances
Please see eldidundee.co.uk for updated CV