Recurring figures - soldiers, athletes, workers, lovers, boys - appear caught between performance and vulnerability. They inhabit city edges spliced with older architectures: watchtowers, domes, arches, floodlights. These settings borrow from visionary and monumental architecture - from Boullée’s impossible gravity to Sant’Elia’s futurist infrastructures - as a way to stage the body inside larger fantasies of progress, power, and ruin.
Alongside paper I use other materials - aluminium, plywood, resin, acetate, LEDs - to build small structures that behave like kiosks, shrines, or machines for looking. I’m drawn to devotional formats and reliquaries, and to apocalyptic image traditions, where illumination and catastrophe sit side by side. Engines and mechanical cores recur like votive hearts: glowing, smoking, carefully handled, as if repair could become a form of prayer.
William Lowry is a British artist living in Oxford and London. He graduated with First Class Honours from the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2023, and is currently undertaking an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has exhibited in Oxford, London, New York, Berlin, and Biella (Italy).
Ashes to Ashes, Asylum Chapel, London
Shortlisted for New Wave Art Prize, Bloomsbury Art Festival, London
Group show, Private View,
Shreeji Newsagents, London
MA/MFA Interim Showcase 2025,
The Slade School of Fine Art
Group show, East Wing Biennial,
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Group show, Fables, Mall Galleries, London
Officina Stamperia Del Notaio Residency, Tusa, Sicily
Max Werner Drawing Prize,
awarded by the Slade School of Fine Art
Hermione Hammond Drawing Award,
awarded by the New English Art Club
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London
Group show, Glimpse
Unit 2, St Leonards
Group show
The Koppel Project, London
Group show, The Collective II
Visionary Projects, New York
Solo Presentation, Recent Works
TAPIR Kunstraum, Berlin
Group show, Erkenntnis und Risiko
Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
Euan Uglow Scholarship,
awarded by the Slade School of Fine Art
Takt Artist Residency
Berlin
Solo show, Terminus
Pembroke College JCR Art Fund & Gallery, Oxford
Musical score for performance
Hor Tarã by Harmanpreet Randhawa,
Modern Art Oxford
Solo show, Zeitgeist
Trinity College, Oxford
Peter Kirk Travel Scholarship, awarded by
Trinity College, University of Oxford
Vivien Leigh Prize, awarded by
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ashmolean Museum Collection - acquisition
Emery Prize, awarded by
Pembroke College, University of Oxford
Ruskin Degree Show 2023
Oxford
Group show, EMPRES: The Art of Noises VIII
Modern Art Oxford
Group show, AWE + WONDER
Bargehouse & gallery@OXO, South Bank, London
Shortlisted for Chaiya Art Awards
Group show, Beyond the Pale
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Group show
BI-BOx Art Space, Biella, Italy
Solo show
Dolphin Gallery, St John’s College, Oxford
Group show, After Hours
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Solo exhibition
Amersi Foundation Lecture Theatre,
Brasenose College, University of Oxford
Solo exhibition
Brasenose College Chapel, University of Oxford
Group show,
EMPRES: The Art of Noises VII, Modern Art Oxford
Ventunesimo Artist Residency
Italy