Patrick Lowry’s installations examine our relationship with objects and places. Through them, he explores various forms of economic, political and cultural hierarchies. Using processes of replication and displacement, Lowry interrogates the aspects of our made environment that help construct or maintain these hierarchies and our submissive or controlled positions of user or consumer. His work stimulates the viewer to consider the subject that is being represented, and how this subject and/or its relationship to both its physical and wider social environment might be interpreted, and what it might imply.
Patrick Lowry’s installations examine our relationship with objects and places. Through them, he explores various forms of economic, political and cultural hierarchies. Using processes of replication and displacement, Lowry interrogates the aspects of our made environment that help construct or maintain these hierarchies and our submissive or controlled positions of user or consumer. His work stimulates the viewer to consider the subject that is being represented, and how this subject and/or its relationship to both its physical and wider social environment might be interpreted, and what it might imply.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND RESIDENCIES
2021 Factatory Resedency Lyon
2021 Auction House, Auction House Gallery, Cornwall
2019 No Public Access, Gallerie Showcase, Grenoble.
2016 Surveillance, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham
2014 Quantitive Easing, The Horse Hospital London, outcome of RBS Sculpture Shock residency
2013 American Dream, The Exchange, Penzance Cornwall
2012 Crushing the Tate, Bikini Espace d'art Contemporain Lyon
2011 Travelodge, Residency in association with the Open West, Meantime project-space, Cheltenham
2009 Basement Stairs, Residency Meantime project-space, Cheltenham
2007 Escalator, New County Hall, Truro - intervention, part of MORE Cornwall
2006 Waitrose, Waitrose, Brighton
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Albany Club, Redruth Cornwall
2023 Retrospective 2017-2022 Gallerie Showcase, Grenoble
2021 Make the World Bright Again – Short Circuit, Seoul South Korea
2020 Borderland, Plymouth Art Weekender, Plymouth
2018 Night Club, Redruth Cornwall
2017 Little Dance, Redruth Cornwall
2016 The World Transformed, Liverpool
2016 Drive-in, Seoul South Korea
2015 Second Site Hestercombe House Somerset
2011 24 Hour Cash, The Open West
2011 Summerfield Gallery University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
2010 Hidden Agenda, Hippodrome Four, Goonhilly Downes Cornwall
2010 Lift, Reality Check, Newlyn Gallery Cornwall
2009 Cash, Souvenir, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds
2009 Bunker, The Open West Summerfield Gallery University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
2008 Escalator 2, Can We Stay Over Tonight, Plan 9 Bristol
2008 Mined, NT Cornish Mines and Engines Pool Cornwall
2008 Beach, Martine Munnik Laaghalerveen Hooghalen Netherlands
2008 Bunker, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
2007 Museum Marquette, Mix it up, Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall
2006 Can You Eat It? Stroud House Gallery, Gloucester
2006 Blue Lift, Sovay Berriman, Jacqueline Knight, Patrick Lowry, County Hall, Truro Cornwall
2005 Beach, The World Art Collection, Netherlands
2004 Sea, Stuff in the Space, Space Gallery, Cornwall
2003 1001 Reasons to Love the Earth, Sole, Korea - group exhibition and book
2003 Hungerford Bridge, Falmouth College of Arts - postgraduate exhibition
2002 Museum, IMP, Falmouth Arts Centre
2001 Bristol Night, Build a Fort and Burn it Down, Falmouth Art Gallery
2000 Tanker, Macro micro, An Artworks TR11
AWARDS
2018 British Council travel bursary to South Korea
2009 Grants for the Arts for The Western Alliance exchange between the Southwest and Turkey.
2009 Research fellowship University of Plymouth
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Rendezvous, Eleonore Pano-Zvaroni, Editions AAA
2021 Urban Utopia, Alter Kim, Gost Company publications.
2016 Surveillance, Hardwick Gallery, Linda Taylor
2016 Sculptor Shock, Black Dog Publishing
2015 Second Site Hestercombe House, Sarah Kent
2014 Quantitive Easing, RBS, Sarah Kent
2013 American Dream, The Guardian Guide, Pick of the week
2013 American Dream, Art of England, May
2012 les InRocKuptibles – pas d’ ateliers, pas d’ artistes October
2012 Bikini Crushing the Tate Pierre Tillet
2008 Galled, Porned & Cheeked, artist’s publication Folded, Glued & Printed
2008 Vol2 - Folded, Glued & Printed, Transition: Curators Edition
2007 Review by Rupert White, http://www.artcornwall.org/exhibition_more_july.htm
2007 a-n Magazine, September, p8
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
2003 MA Fine Art – Falmouth College of Arts (University of Plymouth)
1971 DipAD - West Surrey College of Art & Design (Surrey Inst.)
Member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors
Fellow of the Royal Society Of Arts
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Founding Member, Co-Director BACK LANE WEST (Artist led project space), Cornwall
www.backlanewest.org
2013 - Visiting lecturer - Falmouth University
2003 - 10 Course Manager FdA Fine Art Practice - Cornwall College (University of Plymouth)
2010 Western Alliance, research group developing international residencies in the South West of UK
2009 Curator The Purposes of Drawing CUBE3 Gallery Plymouth
Instigator and co-ordernator Build Residency Programme, Cornwall College Camborne, in association with ProjectBase (see a-n magazine April 08 p26).
