Eve Stainton is an artist and choreographer born in Manchester, living in London, UK. They create multi-disciplinary performance worlds that hold movement practices, welded steel, digital collage, and other invisible forces like waves, imagination and drama. Their research is rooted in community, interested in how differently marginalised people experience and come into relationship with power structures and societal conventions. Often working with codes, tropes and the absurd; staging clunky physical negotiations, or revealing ‚behind the scenes‘ mechanisms of working together, as a way to question a moral idea of perfection, seamlessness and elegance.
Notable presentations include: ICA (UK), Tramway for Take Me Somewhere (UK), Venice Biennale performance programme (IT), Block Universe (UK), Dampfzentrale (CH), My Wild Flag (SE), Le Guess Who? (NL), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), The Place (UK), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), Crac Occitanie (FR), Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis (UK), Close Encounters (CPH), La Becque (CH), LCMF (UK), CCA Glasgow (UK), Tangente (CA). Recent Billboards commission ‚All About Love‘ for 28 billboard sites across Manchester. In 2023 Eve was nominated for the Premio Cunha e Silva Art Prize at Galeria Municipal do Porto (PT). Features include The Wire mag, PW Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Metal, AQNB, FACT Mag, Dazed Beauty, Twin Magazine, Art in America, This is Tomorrow. Work for other artists include Anthea Hamilton, Tai Shani, Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Sonia Boyce, Malik Nashad Sharpe, Holly Blakey, Goldfrapp, Compagnie ECO international tour, Vivienne Westwood, Claire Barrow, Art School, Molly Goddard, walking for London/Shanghai/Paris Fashion Weeks