Courtesy of Nicholas Burry, 2024.
Eleanor Diaz Ritson (b. 1998, Mexico City, MX) is an Ōtautahi-based artist and silversmith. Her work contemplates the archival qualities of rock and earth, retaining traces of pressure, fracture, erosion, and accumulation across both vast and fleeting scales of time. Working with processes that are unplanned and unrepeatable, Diaz Ritson’s work becomes the site of material change, shifting between the organic and the geological, the transitory and the enduring.
Diaz Ritson graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, in 2021, and a Master of Fine Arts (Massey Research Scholar) in 2023. In 2022, she was the Enjoy Summer Artist in Residence at the Rita Angus Cottage.