My work combines drawing, painting, sculpture and sound to probe themes of personal and collective memory, masculinity and queer desire, myth and modernity. My installations, which feature finely detailed drawings and prints enclosed in ambiguous reliquaries or projected on unstable surfaces, are often paired with originally produced music. Animated to flicker like unreliable lamps, they play with ideas of materiality and immateriality and the transformative force of perception.

William Lowry is a British artist living in Oxford and London. He graduated with First Class Honours from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2023, and is currently undertaking an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has exhibited in Oxford, London, New York, Berlin, and Biella (Italy).

@williamlowry.art waelowry@gmail.com

2024
Group show, The Collective II
Visionary Projects, New York

Solo Presentation, Recent Works
TAPIR Kunstraum, Berlin

Group show, Erkenntnis und Risiko
Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin

Euan Uglow Scholarship,
awarded by the Slade School of Fine Art

Takt Artist Residency
Berlin

Solo show, Terminus
Pembroke College JCR Art Fund & Gallery, Oxford

2023
Solo show, Zeitgeist
Trinity College, Oxford

Peter Kirk Travel Scholarship, awarded by
Trinity College, University of Oxford

Vivien Leigh Prize, awarded by
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ashmolean Museum Collection - acquisition

Emery Prize, awarded by
Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Ruskin Degree Show 2023
Oxford

Group show, EMPRES: The Art of Noises VIII
Modern Art Oxford

Group show, AWE + WONDER
Bargehouse & gallery@OXO, South Bank, London

Shortlisted for Chaiya Art Awards

2022
Group show, Beyond the Pale
Bodleian Library, Oxford

Group show
BI-BOx Art Space, Biella, Italy

Solo show
Dolphin Gallery, St John’s College, Oxford

Group show, After Hours
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Solo exhibition
Amersi Foundation Lecture Theatre,
Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Solo exhibition
Brasenose College Chapel, University of Oxford

Group show,
EMPRES: The Art of Noises VII, Modern Art Oxford

Ventunesimo Artist Residency
Italy