Bruce Rowe

Bruce Rowe (b. 1971, Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia) is an artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. He works across sculpture, fibre and drawing and has exhibited in Australia and the US. Rowe’s practice explores his lived experience through an engagement with time, material and process. Structured, repetitive forms such as stairs, masks and boundaries run throughout his work, which examines the often-contradictory nature of these typologies and the liminal spaces between them.

He has held multiple solo exhibitions, including 'Light Studies I' and 'Light Studies II', 'Structures 2015–16', 'Structures II' and 'Ascend'. In 2019, 'Recent Works' was presented at Stahl + Band, Los Angeles. 'If these fragments could be read…' is his most recent collection of sculptural relief works.

Rowe is the co-founder and creative director of Anchor, a design studio established in 2012 to experiment with clay and to bring imagination and creative thinking to ceramic processes. At Anchor, he leads an interdisciplinary team and a structured research program exploring circularity in ceramic production, waste-stream mining and non-traditional making methods.