Upcoming Exhibition
Christmas Show
Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Qld
7 December 2024
The holiday season is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than by immersing yourself in the creativity and festive spirit of a new art exhibition! I am thrilled to invite you to the opening of a very special group show at Woolloongabba Art Gallery. Mark your calendars for Saturday, 7th December, at 3 pm, and come enjoy an afternoon of art, great company, and a glass of wine or two...
I’m especially excited to share that I will be showcasing three brand new sculptural works that feature taxidermy birds.
Hope to see you there. xx
Event Details
Date: Saturday, December 7th
Time: 3 PM
Location: 613 Stanley St, Woolloongabba Qld 4102
Exhibition: Christmas Group Show
Upcoming Exhibition
Ex Libris
Logan Art Gallery, Logan, Qld
July 2025
In Ex Libris, artist Christina Lowry takes the viewer on an experimental journey as she blurs the lines between past and future to create speculative archives. Lowry blends cabinets of curiosities, contemporary technology, as well as art historical and museological tropes in order to investigate our relationship with nature.
‘Ex Libris’ invites visitors on a visual journey that celebrates the beauty of endangered birds while emphasizing the urgency of their conservation. Through the lens of photography, this exhibition seeks to inspire empathy, provoke reflection, and spark action in safeguarding these birds for future generations. The works will include birds endangered in the Logan area such as the Australasian Bittern, Australian Painted Snipe, and the Marbled Frogmouth.
Upcoming Exhibition
Historia Naturalis
Woollongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane, Qld
Saturday 27 April – Saturday 1 June 2024
Opening night Saturday 27th of April 2024 3:00pm
Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms. In her latest collection Christina Lowry takes these relationships, particularly between humans and animals, as her muse. Historia Naturalis explores the effects of human intervention on bird, animal and insect species, articulating the evolving crisis these species are experiencing. Each piece Lowry creates is highly researched and intricately constructed, the product of research into art history, ecology and new technologies.
Bree Di Mattina
Upcoming Exhibition
Rara Avis
Redlands Art Gallery, Cleveland, Qld
Sunday 4 February – Tuesday 26 March 2024
Opening night Friday 2nd of February 2024 6:00pm
Across photography, sculpture and installation, Christina Lowry’s visually striking work confronts the conflicted relationship between humans and the natural world: a relationship that wavers between preservation and destruction, between care and carelessness.
Taking the Latin phrase Rara Avis (rare bird) literally, Lowry’s work presents the viewer with images of birds that are under threat of extinction. These birds are set against elaborately staged and meticulously assembled scenes, which draw on archival research and collaboration with museums alongside practical skills in taxidermy and Lowry’s evolving collection of antiques and curios. The detailed and lush images that emerge from this process are both captivating and disquieting, blurring the line between the living and the dead, the domesticated and the wild. Combining references to seventeenth century Dutch still life painting and the tradition of the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, alongside twenty-first century techniques, including digital photography and 3D scanning, Rara Avis examines ways that humans have sought to define and categorise nature, transforming life into specimen.
Lowry’s work brings together technologies of preservation, classification and documentation that range across centuries, to ask, how do we hold on to what we have lost? Capturing the wonder and beauty of both wildlife and human attempts to understand this, Rara Avis further asks, can we bear to lose more?
Kyle Weise
Curatorial Officer
Redland Art Gallery
Upcoming Exhibition
Remember to Live
Logan Art Gallery, Logan, Qld
29 July – 3 September 2022
In the 1700s, during the Dutch Golden Age, still life paintings demonstrated an artist’s skill and technique. In the hands of the great masters, floral still life paintings became nuanced dialogues between life and death – memento mori for a wealthy merchant class. Wealth and privilege were expressed with expensive flowers and fruit at its peak of ripeness, while the inevitability and finality of death was symbolised with insects and decay.
In her first solo exhibition with Logan Art Gallery, photographer and artist Christina Lowry responds to the theme of ‘memento mori’, Latin for: remember you will die. Essentially – live well now as you may not be here tomorrow. In our COVID era society, Lowry’s work responds to this theme and offers a more hopeful outlook. Amid all our border closures, lockdowns and disrupted lives we must still remember to live.
Accompanying this exhibition are a series of workshops for adults and children hosted by the artist, Christina Lowry.