William Lowry’s work combines drawing, printmaking, sculpture and sound to probe themes of personal and collective memory, masculinity and queer desire, myth and modernity. His immersive installations feature finely detailed drawings and prints, enclosed in ambiguous reliquaries or projected on unstable surfaces, often paired with originally produced music. Animated to flicker like unreliable lamps, they play with ideas of materiality and immateriality and the transformative force of perception.
He graduated from The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford with First Class Honours in 2023, and was also awarded the Ashmolean Museum’s Vivien Leigh Prize and the Emery Prize by Pembroke College.