Terminus
Pembroke College Art Gallery, University of Oxford
"An immersive exhibition of new installation, drawings, painting, sculpture, and original music, Terminus combines contemporary and classical references to explore questions of continuation and finality.
Modern materials and traditional approaches meet in intimate portraits of figures who are both inhuman and all too human. Lowry’s finely detailed soldiers, sportsmen, sons, and lovers – caught in moments of play, contemplation, and crisis – suggest the destabilizing force of an always shifting cultural gaze."
Interview
Accompanied by an original soundtrack composed and produced by William Lowry
Zeitgeist
Trinity College, University of Oxford
"Zeitgeist is a multimedia installation responding to Berlin’s nightlife aesthetics and postwar industrial architecture. Using sound, light, sculpture and drawing, it explores themes of personal and political memory, power and transgression, and the reach of the past into the present.
Supported by a Peter Kirk Travel Scholarship from Trinity College."
Review
Accompanied by an original soundtrack composed and produced by William Lowry
Acheron
Ruskin Degree Show, University of Oxford
"Acheron is an anti-heroic piece that challenges traditional tropes of masculinity and male power. Its elaborate architecture, paired with sensitively-rendered backlit drawings and original drawings, recalls stained-glass windows, imperial-ecclesiastical structures, triumphal military ceremonies, and the drama of Baroque paintings.
These associations are exaggerated and subverted in an off-kilter hellscape (in classical myth, Acheron is one of the rivers in Hades) that is theatrical, unnerving and poignant."
Accompanied by an original soundtrack composed and produced by William Lowry
The Moth, the Madonna
AWE + WONDER, Bargehouse & gallery@OXO, South Bank, London
"Drawing on ex-voto images from the sanctuary of the Black Madonna of Oropa in Italy, interleaved with glimpses of an allusive moth-like figure, and accompanied by a musical composition filled with plangent echoes, the piece offers an immersive experience. It aims to elicit a strong emotional response in the viewer by inviting us to follow an unfolding visual journey that taps into themes of memory, childhood, the maternal, and the natural world.
The moth represents transience, the Madonna transcendence. Music is often central to religious ritual, and the accompanying sound piece underscores our yearning for the sacred and our need to find this in the often painful circumstances of everyday life."
Accompanied by an original soundtrack composed and produced by William Lowry
Capsules
"Capsules features three intricately crafted vessels which call back to medieval religious reliquaries. Constructed from inexpensive materials, they speak to themes of reverence, preservation, and progress.
The sculptures, which feature softly-backlit drawings of 1960s astronauts, early twentieth-century psychoanalysts, and detonating atomic bombs, probe the various scientific and technological myths of our modern era."
Matador
"Matador presents a fragmented and tumultuous landscape, where objects, drawings, and sculptures are sporadically placed to evoke a sense of destruction and disarray. At the heart of the installation is the figure of the Matador, a contradictory symbol embodying both performative masculinity and an extravagant, camp allure. This tension between violence and fragility is central to the work, with each element emphasizing the Matador's precarious existence.
Inspired by Goya’s intense bullfighting prints, the piece weaves a narrative drama, amplifying the charged energy of his etchings in a spatially expansive, multisensory experience. Accompanied by an original soundtrack that draws from sci-fi influences, the soundscape conjures an otherworldly atmosphere, immersing the viewer in an emotive exploration of power, spectacle, and vulnerability."
Accompanied by an original soundtrack composed and produced by William Lowry