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Rosalind Lowry
Predator Fence
Materials: Porcelain
2ft x 10ft
Location: Private Land, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
A new installation on private land, specifically for the @whatsnextforearth Social Justice artcall for Stanford University & The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, a programme I've been involved in for over a year now.
Generations ago, common land in Ireland was gradually enclosed with fences and claimed as private property by organisations and people wealthy enough to get away with it. People who lived off this land had to rent it back or work for the 'landowners'. Social Justice highlights that no human being made the land or the rivers or the sea, so why then should a person or a corporation be entitled to extract wealth from it?
2023
- Rosalind Lowry
Earth Day 2023 – The Road Back Home100
Drawing made with wire
16 meter long
Location: Ireland
I've been part of a Stanford University initiative called What's Next for Earth for a year now, and this is my contribution to their Relocalization art call. It's about getting back to using the local economy and supporting local community economics to build resilience against giant corporations. It's the road back home.
2023
- Rosalind Lowry
Broken Circle
Porcelain
2022
Installed on an old unused road in County Antrim, my contribution to What's Next for Earth for How Globalisation Undermines Resilience. Based on the idea of the circular economy and the concept of designing out waste, and how globalization may be the relentless pursuit of economic efficiency, and the creation of a perfect circle, at the cost of the planet.
2023
- Rosalind Lowry
The Heartbeat of Trees —El Latido del Corazon de los Arboles
installation
Epecuen, Argentina
I’ve spent the last few weeks in Argentina on a residency at Epecuen, thanks to Arts Council Northern Ireland. In the 1970's following long term rain in the surrounding hills an earthen dam broke and the town of Epecuen where 5,000 people lived, was consumed by the lake, under 10 metres of water.
People in the town had a few days to evacuate before their homes disappeared. Now, 50 year's on, the water is receding and the town is being revealed again.
I had the privilege of being Artist in Residence in the ruins. This includes a forest, now a series of dead salt soaked trees. The people relocated and began their lives and built their new homes on higher land.
Throughout 2022 I have submitted and presented to the Stanford University initiative What's Next for Earth and this post is for the latest art call for Community Resilience.
In Epecuen I saw the results of sustained weather on a small community who had to work together to rebuild their lives and to develop a unique support system to survive.
This work is called The Heartbeat of Trees or El latido del corazon de los arboles.
People in the town had a few days to evacuate before their homes disappeared. Now, 50 year's on, the water is receding and the town is being revealed again.
I had the privilege of being Artist in Residence in the ruins. This includes a forest, now a series of dead salt soaked trees. The people relocated and began their lives and built their new homes on higher land.
Throughout 2022 I have submitted and presented to the Stanford University initiative What's Next for Earth and this post is for the latest art call for Community Resilience.
In Epecuen I saw the results of sustained weather on a small community who had to work together to rebuild their lives and to develop a unique support system to survive.
This work is called The Heartbeat of Trees or El latido del corazon de los arboles.
2022
- Rosalind Lowry
Mending Wall
Porcelain clay
90cms x 60cms
2022
Inspired by the Robert Frost poem Mending Wall, where social customs and traditions are difficult to change when they are embedded in communities. The poem is about destruction and creation going hand in hand.
2022
- Rosalind Lowry
Two Bandaged Planets
Porcelain clay. Ultra fragile!
2022
20cm diameter
Two bandaged planets, still functioning and trying to adapt to long-term changes.
2022
- Rosalind Lowry
Blue Eyed Grass On The Peatlands Of Ireland
Installation on the peatlands of County Tyrone
20ft x 40ft
This was an installation created as a response to the folk practices and traditions in Ireland on peatlands, and their commodification. It relates to the theme of Culture Change and Neuroscience in relation to the treatment of these special areas, and family ownership of 'plots' through generations There is a current very slow shift of thinking about the use of these endangered places. For 2 year's I was Artist in Residence on the peatlands for the UK Heritage Lottery, creating work in response to the community connection to the land.
2022
- Rosalind Lowry
Valuing relationships, not things
Conserving not consuming
Seed bank Installation, County Tyrone,
acrylic globe's filled with plant and Sphagnum Moss samples from across an endangered bogland.
I created this installation as a type of cultural and historical bank, preserving the plant species of Irish boglands, where I spent the last 2 years, as an Artist in Residence for the UK Heritage Lottery Fund. More than 1,000 formal seedbanks exist around the world and it is estimated that 40% of plant species are vulnerable to extinction. This installation is an expression of insurance for the future. Each globe contains cuttings from various Sphagnum Mosses, Bog plants, Bog grasses, and some invasive species. The seed bank is about saving the important things for the future, conserving not consuming and I think this is closely aligned with Shifting Cultural Stories.
2021
- Rosalind Lowry
Reindeer Lichen installation
Installation
2021, Derrytresk Bog, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
2021
- Rosalind Lowry