Catherine Lowe

About

Catherine Lowe is an artist from Newcastle upon Tyne. She studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths (2015) before pursuing MA Painting at the Royal College of Art (2024).

Catherine’s practice pulls from an ever-evolving archive to create assemblages: paintings and bodies of paintings that explore materiality, 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—between what it seen and what is unseen—she renders her subjects across a temporal spectrum, simultaneously emerging and dissolving, 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. At the same time, she explores how this process of painting through subtraction can resolve a work in ways that allow new multiplicities of meaning, creating sites of generosity in contemporary art that open up a dialogue between their own historical development, contemporary culture, and its future possibilities.