Sarah Lowndes is a writer and curator based in Norwich, where she is also Research Fellow at

Norwich University of the Arts Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) is a public university in Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom that specialises in art, design and media. It was founded as Norwich School of Design in 1845 and has a long history of arts education. It gained ful ...

. Lowndes is Director of Kunsthalle Cromer and previously contributed to the Public Programme of the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia. Lowndes's research focusses upon artist-led projects, interdisciplinary and performance-related practice and contemporary art. A lecturer at

Glasgow School of Art The Glasgow School of Art (GSA; gd, Sgoil-ealain Ghlaschu) is a higher education art school based in Glasgow, Scotland, offering undergraduate degrees, post-graduate awards (both taught and research-led), and PhDs in architecture, fine art, and ...

between 2002 and 2015, Lowndes has written extensively on post-war art, music and politics in Glasgow in publications including Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since World War II (Glasgow: Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions, 2012), Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene (Luath Press, 2010) and "The Glasgow Scene", The History of British Art, Volume III (London: Tate Publishing, 2008). Other single author books authored by Lowndes include All Art is Political: Writings on Performative Art (2014), The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing: Subjugated Knowledges (2016), Contemporary Artists Working Outside the City: Creative Retreat (2018) and Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain (2022). Lowndes co-edited Actions: The Image of the World Can Be Different, with Andrew Nairne (2018) and edited Like the Sea I Think: New Marine Writing from East Anglia (2019) and Field Work: New Nature Writing from East Anglia (2020). Lowndes has contributed to

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, Art on Paper, Untitled, MAP, 2HB, Spike Art Quarterly and

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and to catalogues for international institutions, including Richard Wright (2009),

Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

: Botanical Vaudeville (2011) and

Dieter Roth Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist best known for his artist's books, editioned prints, sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting food stuffs. He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot. ...

: Diaries (2012). Her curatorial projects include "Three Blows", a weekend of experimental acoustic performance by visual artists and musicians (2008), the symposium Subject in Process: Feminism and Art (2009) the international group exhibition Votive at CCA Glasgow (2009) and the all-women performance event Urlibido (Glasgow International 2010). Her curatorial projects include the

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"Dialogue of Hands" (Glasgow International, 2012) and Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII (Mackintosh Museum, 2012) and she was also the editor of art magazine ''The Burning Sand'(2013-2016)'. Lowndes is married to 2009

Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...

winner Richard Wright.

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