Eleanor Duffin is a practising visual artist, born in Ireland and currently based in Dublin. Duffin received a Bachelor's of Arts, in Sculpture and Combined Media, from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2003. She went on to achieve a Master of Arts from the National College of Art and Design, Ireland in 2005. Her work has been included most recently in Cabin Fever, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (2010), Grey_Matter, London, (2010), Projector, FOUR (2009), Bouvard et Pécuchet, The Lighthouse, Dublin (2009), Open Studio, SIM, Reykavick (2009), Manystuff, Qompendium, Berlin, (2008).
She has also participated on numerous European art residencies most notably a Young Artists program at CERN Physics Research Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Duffin will begin a residency at the Firestation Artists Studio, Dublin in August 2010
Eleanor Duffin's current research is an empirical inquisition, which observes practice and process within contemporary art making. Working with a abductive reasoning, this research focuses on the way in which ideas are conceived and developed to visually produce a hypothesis. It is both her subject matter and a working methodology.