Christopher Rowley
Christopher Rowley first got the idea of becoming an artist while studying Modern languages and Art History at University in Dublin;
While on a visit to New York in 1972 he worked for a while at a screen-printing studio across the road from the Chelsea Hotel, where he helped with work by Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Rauschenberg etc. He did nothing much about it for twenty years, when he decided to do a Foundation Course in Art at the City Lit in London. In 1995 he did a degree in Fine Art Printmaking at Brighton followed by a Masters in Printmaking at Camberwell.
He moved back to Alderney full time in 2009 to find that the logistics of doing screen-printing or etching here are just a bit too complicated. So he now sticks mainly to lino cuts, woodcuts and the occasional collagraph.
He also has taken up sculpture. He mainly uses wire that he finds at the local tip. There is a limitless supply of wire in an apparently limitless variety. He is currently working on a life size Gorilla which he plans to stick on a tree outside his sitting room window, and a herd of zebras for the garden.
