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Rowan Bazley: folio/about/cv/writing/contact

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I make paintings in a rectilinear language. In this square world, marionette characters are placed in situations that explore labour, play, and Thatcher’s legacy in London.

I am interested in making a contemporary painting using the simplest forms available. I am driven by Amy Sillman’s writing On Awkwardness and on the contemporary relevance of Russian revolutionary art from Filonov (1883) who dreamt beautiful woven networks of people and buildings to the Kabakovs (1989) who gestured towards confinement and gathering together under surveillance in their models and paintings. I am also interested in the parallels between London today, the Weimar republic and also Russia in the 1920s.  


Education:

I am an artist born in London. I studied at the Royal Drawing School (2018-19) under Sophie Charalambous, I then was taught by Graham Lister at The Glasgow School of Art (2019-22), took part in the Conditions Studio Programme (2023-24), headed by Matthew Noel-Tod and David Panos and this year I have been tutored by Neal Tait at Turps Studio Programme. Since leaving Turps, I have been awarded the Clyde Hopkins Mentoring award with APT studios, under the tuition of David Webb.

Selected Group Shows:

“hoofbeats pounding” group show, Annex by Koppel, London, 21-28th august 2025 
“The Shape of Shape” group show &curator, Roman Road, London, 6-10th November 2024
“finetoothcomb”, group show, Tellus Triannual, Greatorex Street, London, 27th July- 3rd August 2024
“Traffic! Like I Have a Car” duo show, hARTSlane, London, 21-23rd May 2024 “Figures in Motion” group show, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, 24th-28th March 2022

Prizes:

Awarded the Clyde Hopkins Mentoring Award 2025
Selected for Tellus Triannual, Greatorex St Gallery, London 2024
Nominated for the Freelands Painting Prize 2023
Shortlisted The Biennial Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2019

Collections:

Boardroom Committeeroom Collection
The Royal Collection
Studio Ex Purgamento Collection
Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection
The Royal Drawing School Collection