Jeff Lowe
Biography
Internationally acclaimed sculptor Jeff Lowe has lived and worked in London since the early 1970’s. Since the early 80’s Lowe has spent part of the year working in Portugal, where he has built a house and studios.
Lowe came to prominence with his first one man show in 1974 at the prestigious Leicester Galleries in London’s Cork St. Lowe was only twenty-one and shortly after represented Britain at the Paris Biennale. Exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery and Serpentine Gallery were followed by many one-man shows, Cork Street Gallery, London, Centro Cultural, Faro, Robert Steele Gallery, New York. Selected group exhibitions include Hayward Gallery, Guggenheim Venice, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, Gallery Josine Bockhoven, Amsterdam, Waddington & Shiell Gallery Toronto and the National Gallery Australia.
Biography
1952 Born, Lancashire
Lives and works in London and Portugal
Art Education
1971-75 St. Martin’s School of Art
1970-71 Leicester College of Art
Awards/Residencies
1994 Short listed for Hakoni Prize, Japan
1993 Pollock-Krasner Award, New York, USA
1978 Artist in residence, Prahran College, Melbourne, Australia
1977 Artist in residence, Mermer Stone Quarry, Yugoslavia
1976 GLAA Award
1975 Sainsbury Award
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Gallery 27 Cork Street, London
2011 One-Man Exhibition, Vale do Lobo Art Gallery, Portugal
2010 ‘Building Space’ A Collection of Recent Sculpture,
The Gallery in Cork Street, London
2009 ‘Recent Sculptures and Drawings’ Glynde House, London
2008 ‘Drawn Out’ Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA
2007 ‘Drawn Out: Sculpture & Drawing’ Whitecross Gallery London
‘Drawn Out: Sculpture & Drawing’ Robert Steele, New York
2006 ‘The Paper Flag Series’ No. 6 Havelock Walk, London
’12 x 12’ Guild House, South Bermondsey, London
2005 Sculpture Commission for Chinese Government, Beijing, China
Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Showing of Recent Sculptures, No. 6 Havelock Walk, London
Recent Sculptures, Quinta Do Louredo, Portugal
2003 Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA
2002 Galeria Convento Espirito Santo, Loule, Portugal
Gallery Saam, Amsterdam, Holland
2001 Galerias Municipais De Arte, Portugal
Trem Gallery, Faro, Portugal
Havelock Gallery, London
1994 Maak Gallery, London
1992 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Austin Desmond and Phipps, London
Maak Gallery, London
1987 Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
1986 Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1983 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1981 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1978 Serpentine Gallery, London
1977 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1974 Leicester Galleries, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 Art to Dance with Mayuri Boonham, Southampton City Art Gallery
2011 United Enemies: Sculpture in the 1960s and 70s, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds
2011 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2011 London Group Open Exhibition, The London Group, London
2011 'Uncaught Hares' Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
2011 Westminster: City of Sculpture, Olympics 2011-12, London
2008 ‘Journey’s’ Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church
University, Canterbury, Kent, UK
Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
2007 ‘Summer Show’ Royal Academy of Arts London
Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
2006 Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA
Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
‘Sculptors Drawings’ Vale do Lobo, Portugal
Defined Art Limited, Surrey, UK
Vale do Lobo, Almancil, Portugal
2005 ‘In memory of Volker’, Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
‘Summer Show’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
‘1979’, Bloomberg SPACE, London
2004 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA
2003 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Vale De Lobo, Almancil, Portugal
Gallery Josine Bockhoven, Amsterdam, Holland
Galerie Kunsthandel, Germany
Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA
2002 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Vale De Lobo, Almancil, Portugal
Robert Steele Gallery, New York, USA
Interim, Gallery Josine Bockhoven, Amsterdam, Holland
Free Choice, Gallery Josine Bockhoven, Amsterdam, Holland
Art in the Landscape, Gallery Saam, Oss, Holland
Kunstrai 2002, Amsterdam, Holland, Josine Bockhoven Gallery
Kunstrai 2002, Amsterdam, Holland, Statement Stand
Guggenheim, Venice, Italy
2001 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Vale De Lobo, Almancil, Portugal
2000 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Vale De Lobo, Almancil, Portugal
1999 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Vale De Lobo, Almancil, Portugal
1998 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Hunts Point Sculpture Park, New York, USA
1997 Galleria Convento Espirito Santo, Loule, Portugal
1996 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
1995 Centro Cultural, Faro, Portugal
Contemporary Sculpture, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
1994 Cologne Art Fair (Maak Gallery, London + Bodo Niemann Gallery, Berlin)
British Drawing, ISIS Gallery
Lead and Follow, Atlantis Gallery, London
1992 British Art Fair, London
The Spirit of Modernism, Austin Desmond and Phipps, London
Painting and Sculpture, Maak Gallery, London
First Choice, Galleria Josine Bockhoven, Amsterdam, Holland
Jacques Caplan Sculpture Garden, Kent CT, USA
Philip Staib Gallery, New York, USA
Lineart, Gent, Belgium, Maak Gallery
1991 Hunts Point Sculpture Park, New York, USA
Gallery Josine Bockhoven, Amsterdam, Holland
Galleria Internacional de Arte, Portugal Cultural Centre, San Lorenzo, Portugal
ICAF Austin Desmond Gallery, London
1990 National Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Galeria Internacional de Arte, Portugal
Philip Staib Gallery, New York, USA
1989 Galeria Internacional de Arte, Faro, Portugal
1988 Waddington and Shiell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1987 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1986 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1985 Gallery A, Sydney Australia
Studio Visits Victoria Munroe Gallery, London
1984 Summer Exhibition, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1983 Collaboration, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1982 The South Bank Show, South London Art Gallery, London
Jeff Lowe, John McLean, Mali Morris, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Sculpture at the Park, Cheltenham
Sculptors Drawings, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
Sculpture, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury
Contemporary Choice, Serpentine Gallery, London
1981 Summer Exhibition, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1980 Nature as Material, Arts Council of Great Britain Purchase Exhibition
(Touring Exhibition)
Sculpture, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1979 Style in the seventies, selected by Ben Jones (Touring Exhibition)
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
The First Exhibition, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1978 Spring Show, Serpentine Gallery, London
New Sculpture, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Certain Traditions, (British Council Touring Exhibition), Canada and England
1977 Painters, Sculptors-Drawing, Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London
Silver Jubilee Exhibition in Microcosm, Redfern Gallery, London
1975 Sculpture at Greenwich, Out door sculpture, Greenwich, London
The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London
9e Biennale de Paris, Musee D’art Moderne, Paris, France
1974 New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London
Six Sculptors, Chelsea Gallery, London
British Sculptors-Attitudes to Drawing, Sunderland Arts Centre
Public Collections
Leicester Education Authority
North West Arts Association
Arts Council of Great Britain
Contemporary Arts Society
Government Art Collection
Channel 4 Television
Hunterian Art Gallery
Atkinson Gallery Collection, Southport, Liverpool
National Gallery, Australia
Membership
Royal British Society of Sculptors
The London Group
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