about chris rowe
Chris is an award-winning mixed media artist, holds a BA in Fine Art (Painting), and has exhibited nationally and internationally since the 1980s.
Combining collage with a variety of compatible professional mediums has been an enduring challenge and continuing journey.
Over the years, my work, informed by life’s experiences, has gradually become more complex and multilayered.
My people gather and wonder in environments of unknown composites. They confer, wait, and search to understand themselves, each other and their world.
My works are the imagery for the viewer’s story; the more you look, the more you see.
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daylesford macedon ranges open studios
2019 | Open Studios Programme |
2018 | Open Studios Programme |
2017 | Open Studios Programme |
2015 | Open Studios Programme |
2014 | Open Studios Programme |
2013 | Open Studios Programme |
2012 | Inaugural Open Studios Programme |
awards
2023 | WINNER LindenNewArt- Nina Taylor MP Birthday Cards Award- St Kilda, Vic |
2019 | WINNER Any Other Medium- Pockets of History 2018 Bacchus Marsh Art Show, Vic |
2017 | RUNNER UP 2017 ANL Maritime Art Award, Guardians of an unknown Port 2017 Docklands, Vic |
2016 | WINNER Drawing Category, Daylesford Art Show, Daylesford, Vic. Judge Victor Rubin, renowned Australian artist. |
2015 | WINNER (Life Series Vignettes 2014 "FAMILY") Lost In Sculpture Award, Dunkeld, Vic; |
2011 | WINNER (Roo Watch # 2 2010) Hepburn Springs Landscape Art Prize, Daylesford, Vic |
2003 | Highly Commended, Acquisitive Landscape Art Prize, Daylesford, Vic |
2001 | Reproduction of the work (After Burn 2000) |
1998 | WINNER (Open Cut 1997) Visual Arts Award Cancer Council, Vic |
1994 | Highly Commended, VTU Exhibition, Caulfield gallery, Vic |
solo exhibition
2016 | Connections In Unknown Spaces: Elizabeth Arthur Fine Art, Hamilton, Vic |
2008 | Snippets 1991 – Now: TILT Contemporary Art gallery, Belgrave, Vic |
2005 | Precious: TILT Contemporary Art Gallery, Ferntree Gully, Vic |
2003 | Between: TILT Contemporary Art Gallery, Ferntree Gully, Vic |
2003 | Travelling: TILT Contemporary Art Gallery, Ferntree Gully, Vic |
2001 | Shades of a Soul: Bulle Galleries Flinders St, Melbourne, Vic. |
invited & selected exhibitions
2021 | White Rabbit Winter Show, Little Gallery Trentham, Vic |
2020 | FINALIST The Maritime Art Prize and Exhibition, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands, Vic |
2017 | Runner Up 2017 ANL Maritime Art Prize Mission to Seafarers Docklands, Vic |
2016 | ANL Maritime Art Prize Mission to Seafarers Docklands, Vic |
2016 | FINALIST Flanagan Art Exhibition, St Patrick’s College Ballarat, Vic |
2015 | 2015 ANL Maritime Art Prize Mission to Seafarers Docklands, Vic |
2015 | WINNER LOST IN SCULPTURE Exhibition, Dunkeld, Vic Oct 2015 |
2015 | FINALIST Flanagan Art Exhibition, St Patrick’s College Ballarat, Vic |
2014 | FINALIST: The M Collection: Gallery Smith, North Melbourne, Vic |
2014 | FINALIST: 2014 Scope Galleries Art Award: Art Concerning Environment, Warnambool, Vic |
2014 | FINALST: SHE 2014 Walker Street Gallery Dandenong, Vic |
2013 | THEN HERE & NOW Glen Eira Gallery Caulfield, Vic |
2012 | VIEWPOINTS Steps Gallery, Carlton South, Vic |
2011 | 2011 ANL Maritime Art Prize Mission to Seafarers Docklands, Vic |
2010 | 2010 ANL Maritime Art Prize Mission to Seafarers Docklands,Vic |
2010 | She 2010, Walker St Gallery Dandenong, Vic |
2009 | 2009 ANL Maritime Art Prize Docklands, Vic |
2008 | 2008 ANL Maritime Art Prize Mission to Seafarers Docklands, Vic |
2008 | Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize, Williamstown, Vic |
2007 | 2007 ANL Maritime Art Prize,Mission to Seafarers Docklands, Vic |
2007 | 17 August Caulfield Grammar School, Wheelers hill Campus, Vic |
2007 | 2 August Youth Empowered Against HIV/AIDS (YEAH), Melbourne, Vic |
2007 | The Cancer Council Victoria Arts Awards, 15W Gallery, Melbourne Vic |
2007 | 6 July – 2 August MARZIART International Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
2007 | The Nillumbik Prize, Montsalvat, Vic |
2007 | New Days, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne, Vic |
2006 | Salon de Montsalvat, Landscape Painting & Printmaking, Montsalvat, Vic |
2006 | The Continental Hotel Summer Exhibition, Sorrento, Vic |
2006 | Caulfield Grammar 25th Professional Artists Exhibition, Wheelers Hill, Vic |
2002 | The Fleurieu Biennale, Mc Laren Vale, Tours 2003 Regional Galleries, SA |
1995 | Spring Festival of Drawing: Mornington Art Prize: Mornington. Regional Gallery, Vic |
1989 | National Student Art Prize: Mitchell University, Bathurst, NSW |
group exhibitions
1985-ongoing | Consistently exhibiting in a variety of group shows throughout Australia. |
commissions
2015 | Leaving For The Front ANZAC Centenary 2015 Backspace Gallery, Ballarat, Vic |
2007 | INTERACTIVE MURAL The Four Seasons Emergency Department, Sandringham Hospital, Vic |
acquisitions
2005 | Ansell Corporation, Richmond, Vic |
1994 | The Australian Nursing Federation (Vic Branch) |
education
1987-89 | BA Fine Arts, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic. |
1973-76 | Certificate of Nursing, RMH, Melbourne. Vic |
projects
1996 | Projects Officer1996-7: Mixed Platter Exhibition NGV, Art dealing with Bulimia & Anorexia Nervosa |
biblography
2018 | Hepburn Advocate |
2017 | Hamilton Spectator |
2016 | Hamilton Spectator |
2013 | Film by Ivor Bowen Media The Artist’s Studio: Daylesford Macedon Ranges Open Studios |
2007 | Hamilton Spectator |
2001 | Hamilton Spectator |
1998 | Sandringham / Brighton Advertiser |
1997 | Weekly Times |
1994 | Craft Arts International, no 30 |