Fiona Lowry

Selection Biography

Born in 1974, Fiona Lowry currently lives and works in Sydney. Lowry graduated with a, Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the Sydney College of the arts. She is currently completing a Masters of Visual Arts Sydney College of the Arts.

Since her first exhibition at Firstdraft gallery, Sydney (2002), Lowry has held several major solo exhibitions such as, Executioners Drop, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney (2004); Left behind, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney (2005); one mind, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney (2006); all I want to do is spend my life with you, Roger Williams Contemporary, Auckland (2007) I'm having dreams about you, Gallery Barry Keldoulis (2007); I ACT AS THE TONGUE OF YOU, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney (2008) and most recently, I loved you yesterday, at Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney and, Lost to Nothing at Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide (2010).

Lowry has participated in numerous group exhibitions across Australia, including, most recently, twenty/20, UTS: Gallery, Sydney (2010); Wilderness, Balnaves Contemporary: Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2010) and Known Sites Contemporary Australian Landscapes from the Artbank Collection; Presiding Officer's Gallery, Parliament House, Canberra; Other noteworthy group exhibitions include, Feminism Never Happened, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2009); Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2009); Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, The State Library of NSW, Sydney (2008); New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2007); Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney (2006) and the ABN Amro Emerging Artist Award, Sydney (2006).

Lowry is also an accomplished curator. Her paintings cite specific locations such as, Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales and engage in the origins of a related dialogue about the power of landscape working with an airbrush technique.

Lowry has been the recipient of several grants and awards including, 2008 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (winner); an Australia Council Grant for New Work (2006), Collex Acquisitive Prize for past Primavera artists (2006).

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Exhibitions

McLean Edwards, Rhys Lee, Fiona Lowry & Heather B. Swann

17 November to 11 December 2010