Bio

Kristie Rowe is a multidisciplinary artist, a painter who also works in innovative visual design for film, theatre and live performance. Her love of texture and colour is influenced by her former work as a fashion and textile designer, working in London with antique embellished textiles and on her own bespoke label ‘House of Snowball’. She works intuitively on large scale canvases often with bold colour and impasto paint with varied textures and applications. 

 

Kristie’s early childhood was spent on a farm in the Western Australian bush and she has always been influenced by the natural environment, the cultivation of plants, fruits and the cycles of nature as well as histories and stories that are specific to a site. 

 

Kristie also has a keen interest in photography, and portraiture, the observation of light on both nature and the human form is a big part of her documentary art process. Kristie takes on commissioned paintings in both abstract works and portraiture where she is interested in the space between gestural realism and abstract narrative to capture the true spirit of a subject.

 

Inspired by both the sensory human experience of living and her deeply visceral inner world, she paints intuitively responding to the colour or texture capturing the energies of the paint. Spontaneity and movement are key in her work, because to be present, in the moment, is true freedom. 

 

Education

Bachelor Fine Arts - University of Western Australia

Diploma in Fashion Design - Whitehouse School of Design, Sydney. 

 

Awards & Projects

Paintings/costumes/set/props recently featured in ‘Pieces’ film ;

Winner of the WA ScreenCulture Awards 2022; Outstanding Production Design in a Film .

Nominated for an AACTA Best Costume Design in a Film 2022 (alongside Catherine Martin for Elvis).

Nominated for an AACTA Best Indie Film 2022.

 

Batavia Gallery, WA Shipwreck Museum ‘Lucretia’s Lament’ 2021 Live performance in the Batavia Gallery sculptural costume made with hand cut paper stenciling and mechanical silhouette puppetry features.

 

PSAS ‘Mary Shelley’s Heart’ 2018 Live painting with WA Opera’s soprano, Caitlin Cassidy, in a sculptural canvas dress inspired by research around the Round House.

 

Instagram: @kristierowe_artist / @kristierowe.liveperformance 

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