LAURA LOWE (b.1991 Helsinki) is a painter working with the iridescent colour spectra found in oil slicks. Rather than using pigment, Lowe’s Structural Colour Paintings produce colour by manipulating and building up material layers of translucent paint — which bend and refract light like a prism. Lowe’s alchemically-inspired artistic practice is informed by hundreds of trials in the laboratory and an scientific inquiry into the interplay of light and matter.
A recent graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki, Lowe’s MFA degree show was awarded the Anita Snellman Stipend. She has just completed her first public commission, after winning First Prize and Audience Favourite in the Hotel GLO Art competition. Lowe has been working with a grant from the Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse for a solo show in B-galleria, Turku based on research conducted with the Biofilia laboratory at Aalto University.
Lowe had just been awarded a two-year working grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for upcoming solo shows in Huuto gallery ‘25 and Gallery Forum Box ‘26, Helsinki. She has also been selected for the Bioart Society’s Ars Bioarctica residency at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in the arctic, and HIAP’s Suomenlinna residency in a collaboration with Scottish printmaker Constanza Dessain. Both projects explore the relationship between fossil fuel contamination and disappearing ice.
Lowe lives and works in HEL.
For enquiries or to request a catalogue of available works
please contact:
Laura Lowe Studio
lauralowestudio [at] gmail.com
