Artist CV

Artist's statement

(b 1966GB. Lives and works in London)

Bowles explores illusion, intervention and metamorphosis through her painting, object making, film and installation. She reinterprets artworks and artefacts by playfully reimagining their architectural and historical contexts. By rearranging elements and imagery from classical paintings, photographs and architectural interiors, she subverts historical narratives, opening up new avenues of interpretation. “I attempt to render the familiar uncanny, in order to challenge us to re-evaluate what we think we know.”

Solo exhibitions

2018: Appropriating the Past, Fieldgate Gallery, London; Hairy Interventions, Arthouse1 Gallery, London
2016: DOO-PLIS-I-TEE, Gallery 286, London

Group exhibitions

Gilbert Bayes Award Exhibition

2021: Royal Society Sculptors, Maquettes,Cello Factory, London; Afterimage, Blyth Gallery, London
2020: Drawing Together, Loughborough University
2019: AllHallowTide, Gasp Artspace, Portsmouth; The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London; Creekside Open, selected by Brian Griffiths, APT Gallery; Observation Rooms, ArtHouse1, London
2018: Subsumed, Crypt Gallery, London; Reinterpreting the Past, Fieldgate Gallery, London; Film Screening – Hairy Thoughts, Kino Cinema, London; In The Future, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London; Face To Face, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2017: A Table of Elements, Greystone Industries, Wickham Market; Window Sill, Griffin Gallery, Perimeter Space; Young Masters Art Prize, Cynthia Corbett Projects, London; Creekside Open, Selected by Jordan Baseman; Reportrait, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham; Antennae, Angus Hughes Gallery, London
2016: COUNTER_FITTERS, Geddes Gallery, London; SHAPE_SHIFTERS, Arthouse1, London; Complicity, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London; Sixty, Angus Hughes Gallery, London/Athens; Bonfire of the Vanities, Display Gallery, London
2015: No-One Lives in the Real World, Standpoint Gallery, London; Material Tension, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London; One Plus One, Angus Hughes, London; Zeitgeist Open, selected by Domo Baal and Rebecca Geldard; Hundreds and Thousands, Angus Hughes Gallery, London; Ruins of Time, Crypt Gallery, London; Catalyst, Husk Gallery, London
2014: Bodies That Matter 2, ArtLacuna, London; A Virtual Topography, Husk Gallery, London; Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2013: Gifted, Chart Gallery, London; Lion and Lamb, Sluice Art Fair, London; Bodies That Matter, Space Station 65 with ArtLacuna, London; Photo and Print, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London; Discernible, Bond House Gallery, London

Awards & residencies

2019: Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal Society Sculptors; Experiments in Stately Theatrics, Residency, Take Courage, London
2017: Young Masters Art Prize Cynthia Corbett Projects, London
2015: Zeitgeist Open, selected by Domo Baal and Rebecca Geldard
2014: Oriel Davis Open, Powys; The Open West, Cheltenham; Future Map, London
2012: Benton Prize, Discerning Eye; Zeitgeist Open 2012

Press & publications

2020: Drawing Together, Philip Lindley
2019: A Love of Many Things
2017: Taking Liberties with the Masters
2014: Bodies that Matter 3

Collections

University of the Arts, London
Ahmanson Collection, USA
Thomas Frangenberg Collection, Cambridge
Private Collections, UK, Europe and USA

Education

2013: MA Fine Art, University of the Arts, London