Catherine Lowe

Catherine Lowe is an artist from Newcastle upon Tyne. She studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths and MA Painting at the RCA. She lives and works in London, UK.

Catherine’s practice pulls from an ever-evolving archive to create assemblages: paintings and bodies of paintings that explore texture, form, and volume across figurative landscapes to address a multiplicity of narratives, histories, and perspectives.

Shifting between subtraction and erasure, mediating between the transient and the permanent, she renders her subjects across a temporal spectrum, establishing a relationship between absence, structure, and materiality within the void of the canvas.

In this way, Catherine interrogates the notion of a ‘resolved’ or ‘finished’ work and, by extension, the conception of history and historical memory as cohesive, linear, and teleological.