Eli is a visual artist and educator. Creating immersive environments via large-scale painting, his socially-engaged practice sits at the intersection of art and activism.
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A broader selection of artwork can be found via Eli's instagram at @anomeli__ ✶

Kingdom Come, installation view, 2025

Shrine to a Gender Heretic, installation view at Temporary Autonomous Arts, 2024

Eli designs event posters. Contact him via email or Instagram for commissions.

Eli regularly runs art workshops on freelance and voluntary bases, for a broad spectrum of demographics. He sees art as a crucial tool of social connection and therefore, he's particularly keen to host creative spaces for those who face marginalisation and need access to self-expression. Putting this principle into practice, Eli has led art sessions for groups in complex settings - including prisons, psychiatric wards, SEND schools and more. Emphasising inclusion, he is experienced in supporting participants with additional needs.Sustainability and access are also foundational to Eli's work; he strives to design workshops around upcycling wasted or found materials. He can capably facilitate in diverse mediums - from painting, drawing, illustration and zinemaking, to clay modelling, embroidery and textiles, and more.

✶ Eli firmly believes that art is for all, and can be made out of anything by anyone. ✶

Below is a gallery and a list of workshops Eli has delivered for various art organisations, schools, charities, and youth groups. Please get in touch if you want him to facilitate for you!

  • Young Londoners' Archive Zigzag Zine Workshop at Malorees Junior School, 2025

  • Banner Making/Radical Repair Café at Release Harm Reduction Hub, 2025

  • 'Mapping Queer Utopias' Workshop for LGBTQ+ Reading Friends Group, Guildford Library, 2025

  • Participatory Mural at HMP Send Womens' Prison, delivered with Create Arts, 2025

  • 'Paint Jam' Collaborative Mural Workshops at REinsTate, 2024

  • Nurturing Talent Development Programme with Create Arts, 2023/24

  • Riposte Art Rave Collaborative Painting Workshop, delivered at QUEERCIRCLE Gallery, 2024

  • Sydenham Arts Winter Welcome 'Recyclart' Workshop, 2024

  • 'Queer Utopias' Workshop for Blossom LGBTQ+ CIC, 2022

  • Clay Creatures Workshop for residency at Guildford Library, 2022

Eli has performed as a live painter across a variety of London venues and events - a selection of some is presented above. They are eager to continue exploring performance art, and would love to be contacted for any collaborations.

Eli Delbaere is a visual artist, arts educator and anarchist. Drawn to creating immersive environments via large-scale painting, his developing mural practice is known for its blend of figuration and abstraction, carving a niche for fact and fantasy to collide.
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Eli’s idiosyncratic visual language fuses his transsexuality with dense symbolism from his Celtic heritage, combining ancient art-making rituals with pioneering politics.
Primarily self-taught, Eli seeks to create socially-engaged art which, like a form of contemporary folklore, is immersed in living culture - in sharp contrast to the separatist, purist concept of ‘fine art’ which exists as a commodity in cordoned-off elitist spaces. This informs his work in poster design and muralism: artforms which are functional, fundamentally accessible, which act ’in concert with communities’ and carry anti-capitalist histories.
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Embodying his beliefs that art should radically reclaim and transform space, forge intersectional social bonds, and give a voice to ‘othered’ subcultures, his imperfect work is found in non-institutional, non-hierarchical spaces such as squats, raves, streets, zines, bedrooms and DIY venues.
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With years of experience working in arts education with all ages, Eli currently teaches on a freelance basis - in schools, museums, and in-home tutoring settings. His facilitation style emphasises intuitive play, inclusion and imagination. Contact him via the details below to enquire about tuition.

"I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few." ✶ William Morris

➷ Some artists who influence Eli's work...

Contact Eli via email or Instagram DM. He is an open book.

"The Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent" ✦ Susan Stryker

Below is a selection of zines and brief writings which Eli intends to act as a tranarchist primer: the radical politics of insurrectional queerness, autonomous artmaking, and actionable guides for community organising. A window unto Eli's own praxis, these resources are for all readers - from the uninitiated to the insurgent.