About

Angus Lowe studied Art History at University of Manchester before an MA in Architectural History at UCL.

His process allows for a kind of miraculous development of forms. The first step requires a clearing of mind in front of the canvas so that the first marks are intuitive, freed from intention close to Surrealism's automatic drawing. Often using a marker pen, the lines become a notation for a subject. Imagining the physicality of being that subject, a methodology developed from BA research into empathy and kinaesthetics, suggests a certain gestural energy, which is then manifested with oil paint.

This method necessarily results in a wide variety of images due to chance being at their evolutionary core. What they have in common is considered attention to the characteristics of each brush stroke and how their painterly interaction reveals the underlying force of the subject.

His first solo exhibition From Lines (held in London where he lives and works) in 2019 focussed the technique. A portrait was intended when making rapid marker pen lines before oil paint fleshed figures onto the ‘bones’ of these marks. His project starting in 2022, ‘Tectons’, involve a freeform addition of planes emulating the shifting of tectonic plates.

'Sunset at Noon' was selected by Conrad Shawcross for the 2022 Summer Exhibition at The Royal Academy.

Seven works were selected for exhibition at Art for Youth at Mall Galleries 2023.

For sales, commissions and collaborations contact: anguselowe@gmail.com

For available work visit my shop

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Angus also works in 2D stopmotion animations which can be found on his Vimeo page

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Art2Arts Artists of the Month: August 2024 – UK Artists