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Biography

Internationally acclaimed British sculptor, Jeff Lowe has lived and worked in London and Portugal since the early 1970's. His sculptures have been exhibited worldwide. Solo shows include the Serpentine Gallery, (London) Centro Cultural, (Portugal), Centre for Contemporary Art (Australia), Trem Gallery (Portugal), MAAK Gallery (London) and recently at the Robert Steele Gallery, (New York).

Most recently Lowe participated in the '1979' show at Bloomberg Space, London which focused on the first British Art Show of the that year. Selected group exhibitions include Hayward Gallery, (London) Ikon Gallery, (Birmingham), Gallery Josine Bockhoven, (Amsterdam), Bodo Niemann Gallery (Berlin), Galeria Internacional de Arte (Portugal) and the National Gallery (Melbourne).

Lowe won the Pollock-Krasner Award, New York in 1993 and consequently was shortlisted for Hakoni Prize, Japan 1994; other awards include the Greater London Arts Award (1976), and the Sainsbury Award (1975). Lowe was an artist in residence at Mermer Stone Quarry, Yugoslavia, (1976) and Praham College, Melbourne, Australia (1977). Public Collections include Leicester Education Authority, Arts Council England, Contemporary Arts Society, Channel 4 Television and the National Gallery, Austrailia. He studied at Leicester College of Art (1970-72) and St. Martin's School of Art (1971-75).

Jeff Lowe taught part-time in many Art Schools including Reading University, Canterbury College of Art, and Nottingham School of Art as well as the advanced course at St. Martins School of Art and concluded his teaching 1995 in order to concentrate fully on his own work.

He initiated the widely acclaimed 'Greenwich Artists Studios' in 1975 and started encouraging artist to join the Live/Work warehouses in Havelock Walk, Forest Hill in 1995.

In the last 3 years he has expanded his living and working environment in Portugal. This has been featured in many publications. The Live/Work warehouse at Six Havelock Walk has also been designed and completed during the same period.

Jeff Lowe is currently working on smaller scale works in his studio in Havelock Walk and in Portugal. He has recently taken on a 10,000 sqft warehouse in order to realise a series of 15 large cast sculptures in Iron, Aluminum and Bronze. A showing of these works will take place in London during the summer of this year.

 

 



Jeff Lowe - NYC 2005



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