Eve Stainton is an artist and choreographer born in Manchester and living in London, UK. They create multi-disciplinary performances that involve movement practices, welded steel/live welding, digital collage, and other invisible forces like drama and suspense. 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 or tropes of gender, class and threat, their work stages clunky physical negotiations and reveals 'behind the scenes' mechanisms of working together to show a kind of reality that isn't seamless.

Notable presentations include: Dykegeist (2021) and Impact Driver (2023) for ICA, Tramway for Take Me Somewhere (UK), Venice Biennale performance programme (IT), E-Werk Luckendwalde (DE), Block Universe (UK), Dampfzentrale (CH), Donnaufestival (AUST), My Wild Flag (SE), Le Guess Who? (NL), Bergen Kunsthall (NO), Nottingham Contemporary (UK), Crac Occitanie (FR), Sadler's Wells (UK), La Becque (CH), LCMF (UK), CCA Glasgow (UK), Tangente (CA), Chapter Arts Centre (WAL), Rouyn-Noranda Biennale (CA), The Mount Without (UK). Billboard commission 2023 '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).

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Photo: Eve Stainton (l) and Florence Peake by Saffron Liberty for Elephant magazine