“Encaustic Anatomy” by Eleanor Crook. Mixed media, 2025.
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Eleanor Crook is an artist with a special interest in mortality, anatomy and pathology who exhibits internationally in fine art and medical and science museum contexts. She studied Classics and Philosophy before training in sculpture at Central St Martins and the Royal Academy Schools in the early 90s, where she specialized in wax modeling, lost wax bronze casting and other lifelike media, learning anatomy and Forensic Facial Reconstruction to imbue her figures – more effigy than statue – with a convincing sense of life. The development of this work has taken place through longterm collaboration with medical museums and historic anatomical wax collections including the Gordon Museum of Pathology, Guy’s Hospital, Ghent University Museum (GUM) and the Vrolik Museum Amsterdam. Most recently she is working with painting, collage sculpture and assemblage on creating a genre of anatomical Expressionism , uncanny yet rooted in medical investigation, mythology and the mysteries of the mind.