BIOGRAPHY
MARY LOW - CONCEPTUAL ARTIST
Although self-taught my innate experimentation and curiosity has allowed me to develop my art into paintings, collaborative art projects, prints and land art. My work has been exhibited in the UK and overseas.
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In Britain most of our landscape has been changed by the action of humans. It is in this mediated landscape that I work/walk. I prefer solitude and have a huge capacity for focus and pattern finding which is a reflection of my neurodiversity.
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I am obsessed with finding ways to map my environment, to articulate the space I move through. My body draws an invisible line through the space in which I walk, I feel the ground under my feet, the dogs nose in my hand, the air in my face, I smell the sheep, I hear the skylark, the rustle of gorse. My work is a combination of observation, sensation and invention in order to create a language to describe - the invisible made visible.
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As a conceptual artist the imagery I make is often a mixture of memory, drawn or photographed features, to a source of something more tangible and real; a snail shell, old corrugated iron, flaking paint, wool hanging off a bush. However my art goes beyond a linear rendition of objects. I produce visual forms of concepts, emotions and temporal space.
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"Walking faces us with many landscapes: there is the landscape outside of us, and the landscape inside of us,"
Ernesto Pujol, "Walking Art Practice"' 2018, P.329, Triarchy Press, England.
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Selected Work
2024
Moving house!
2023
Shortlisted for the Women in Art Prize.
Some of my 'Lost Family' paintings displayed on the screens in Times Square, New York.
Group exhibition at the Royal Conwy Academy.
2022
In the Summer I ran a co-creation project with alumni of the St. Ives School of Painting.
One of eight artists chosen for the Drawing Correspondence programme IV. the online publication is available at -
https://issuu.com/drawing_correspondence_program/docs/wintering_well_publication_
Group shows at RCA and Oriel Canfas in Wales and Fronteer Art in Sheffield.
Work accepted by the Society of Women Artists, The Mall Galleries, London.
Online exhibition and catalogue 'Memory And Identity', CISTA Arts. https://www.cistaarts.com/memoryandidentity
2021
Longlisted for the Jackson’s art Prize. Accepted onto the Turps Bannana mentorship programme, London.
2020
Uig Open, at Hulabhaeg Gallery, online, May - June.
The Resilient Self’, The Artist’s Pool London.
Contributed to A Prompt For Drawing led by Nina Chua.
2018
Work based on the universal declaration of human rights (UDHR) which toured Australia and then worldwide.
Two textile art pieces accepted in the Wrexham Open Art Exhibition.
2017
Collaborative project with Susan Aldworth, as part of The Dark Self, York, UK. Textile piece toured the UK until Spring 2019.
One of 20 international textile artists selected for exhibition in Birmingham, UK.
2014
Sketchbook Project, two touring exhibitions.
The Print Exchange, , work now held in Brooklyn Art Library, New York.
2012
Crossing Borders, Llangollen Pavilion, Denbighshire, Wales.
2010
Crossing Borders, Moray Arts Centre, Scotland
Collaborative Project with Catherine Bertola, Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales.
Shortlisted for the Watershed Landscape project, Lancashire.
2009
Outdoor art trail for Down To A Fine Art gallery, Cheshire, UK.
2008
Commission for the Brindley Arts Centre, Runcorn, UK.
Art in the Gardens, multiple exhibitions celebrating Cheshire gardens. UK.
2007
HSBC Premier Black and White exhibition at Down To A Fine Art gallery, Cheshire,
2006
Solo exhibitions in the Chester, Cheshire, UK.
First Grizedale Residency. Cumbria, UK.
Two prints selected for print biennale in Prague.
Publication of my experiences during the Grizedale residency in the. Landscape and Arts Journal, 39, Nov. 2006.
2004
Commissioned by BBC Wales and Wrexham Council to produce a series of digital arts workshops Where I Live, and final exhibition of community art work.
Process, group show from the Regional Print Centre, Wrexham. It toured throughout Wales and the North West of England.