William Lowry is an artist based between London and Oxford. He completed his MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, in 2026, having previously studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
Lowry's drawing-led practice spans printmaking, sculpture and installation and explores masculinity, memory and myth through the symbolic language of architecture. Figures - soldiers, athletes, workers, lovers, boys - appear caught between performance and vulnerability. They inhabit spaces suspended between the contemporary and the ancient, the intimate and the monumental: city edges, watchtowers, domes, arches and floodlights.
These settings borrow from visionary and monumental architecture, from Boullée's impossible gravity to Sant'Elia's Futurist infrastructures, to stage the body inside larger fantasies of progress, power and ruin. He is interested in how images become carriers of internal mythologies, and how private feeling gets organised into public iconography.
Alongside drawing and printmaking, Lowry uses materials such as aluminium, plywood, resin, acetate, perspex and light, as well as processes including 3D printing, projection and sound. These works often take the form of small structures, shrines, kiosks or machines for looking. He is drawn to devotional objects, reliquaries and apocalyptic image traditions, where illumination and catastrophe sit side by side.
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