ABOUT DALE JOSEPH ROWE
From the red sun of Zambia where he lived until he was seven, to the green moon of a small Scottish town where he grew up, Dale Joseph Rowe’s work rests on this founding contrast. A sculptor, ceramist and photographer, he is deeply interested in construction techniques and in processes for inscribing light in different media. His Family Portraits are pictures made after old family snaps taken in Africa or Scotland.
They show the glossy images of an idealised and colourful past, mingled with forgotten words and distant memories which are conveyed by the projected shadows behind the perspex.
His Camera Obscura displayed in the streets of Porto or Montreuil are optical devices which from the inside show reversed images of their environment. They are dark on the inside except for the perspex frames on which moving images appear, but on the outside they are painted with colourful pictures based on images taken with pinhole cameras. These boxes thus interact in multiple ways with their environment, absorbing reality and reflecting it back in an expected way.
D. J. Rowe is also interested in the place of nature in cities (Urban Nature) and in the way man tries to control his natural environment, to model it and to give it a meaning and a direction : hence the importance of the arrow, a recurrent symbol in Dale Joseph Rowe’s installations. He has shot those arrows all over Europe and more particularly in Montreuil with Spring Windows. The colourful windows of the city, overgrown with weeds, sprang from a circular arrow symbolising nature. A moving, dynamic work.
LINKS
Dale Joseph Rowe on the Web:
• List of visual artists, Montreuil (French)
• Éditions de l'Œil
• CV by Luc Barrovecchio (French)
• Blog: Carnet aux petites choses (French)
• Fruit Stencil Project, Montreuil (French)
• Twitter
Autres liens:
• Aeneas Wilder - Sculpture
• Johann Soussi - Photography
• Corrinne Darde - Video artist
• Luc Barrovecchio - Art economique (French)
• Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
• Atelier aux Lilas, printmakers, Les Lilas (French)
