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.
Qualifications and training
2003 - MA Fine Art, Falmouth College of Arts
Solo exhibitions
2016 - Surveillance, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham.
2014 - Quantitive Easing, The Horse Hospital Bloomsberry, London.
2013 - American Dream , Exchange Gallery, Penzance Cornwall
2012 - Crushing the Tate, , BIKINI Espace d'art Contemporain, Lyon
2011 - Travelodge, Meantime project space, Cheltenham
2009 - Residency in association with the Open West, Meantime project-space , Cheltenham
2007 - Escalator, part of MORE Cornwall, New County Hall, Truro Cornwall
2006 - Site specific installation, Waitrose, Brighton
Group exhibitions
2016 - The World Transformed, Liverpool
2016 - Drive-in, Seoul, South Koria
2015 - Second Site, Hestercombe House, Taunton Somerset
2011 - Millennium Mixed Winter Exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Cornwall
2011 - Open West 2011, Summerfield Gallery University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenhan
2010 - Happidrome Four, Lizard National Nature Reserve, Goonhilly Downes, Cornwall
2010 - Reality Check, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall
2009 - Souvenir, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds
2009 - the Open West, Summerfield Gallery University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
2009 - Two is One One is None, Back Lane West, Redruth Cornwall
2008 - Bunker, Newlyn Gallery, Cornwall 2008 - Can We Stay Over Tonight, Plan 9, Bristol
2008 - Mined, NT Cornish Mines and Engines,, Cornwall
2007 - Mix it Up, the Salt Gallery, Hayle Cornwall
2006 - Can You Eat It, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud
2006 - Insallation 3 person show, New County Hall, Truro Cornwall
2005 - Installation, World Art Collection, Rhenen (The Netherlands) Residencies
Other 2009 to date - Founding Member, Back Lane West (Artist led space), Cornwall
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