ARTIST:

Steven Lowery

Knave Brew World
Steven Lowery
Night People vs Creeping Meatballism
Steven Lowery
Can Tongues Jump Through Hoops
Steven Lowery
Can Tongues Jump Through Hoops
Steven Lowery
Its Not Easy Being a Dolphin
Steven Lowery
Its Not Easy Being a Dolphin
Steven Lowery
Gnashins Still in Fashion
Steven Lowery
Gnashins Still in Fashion
Steven Lowery
Up the Down Escalator
Steven Lowery
Up the Down Escalator
Steven Lowery
Fulcrum Grafter Masher
Steven Lowery
Fulcrum Grafter Masher
Steven Lowery
Fulcrum Grafter Masher
Steven Lowery
Fed-Ex to Munchen
Steven Lowery
Fed-Ex to Munchen
Steven Lowery
I am the King
Steven Lowery
I am the King
Steven Lowery

Text by Ben Street

You should Never Spit in the Faces of Strangers only in the Mouths of Friends
Steven Lowery
You should Never Spit in the Faces of Strangers only in the Mouths of Friends
Steven Lowery
Fulcrum Grafter Masher
Steven Lowery
Its Not Easy Being a Dolphin
Steven Lowery
I am the King
Steven Lowery
You should Never Spit in the Faces of Strangers only in the Mouths of Friends
Steven Lowery
Gnashins Still in Fashion
Steven Lowery
Fed-Ex to Munchen
Steven Lowery
Up the Down Escalator
Steven Lowery
Can Tongues Jump through Hoops
Steven Lowery
Night People vs Creeping Meatballism
Steven Lowery
Night People vs Creeping Meatballism
Steven Lowery

CHICKEN IN A BASKET. OUR SURVEY SAID. IT’S NOT EASY BEING A DOLPHIN. In Steven Lowery’s drawings, snippets of overheard language crash and slide together, trying to squeeze each other out of the picture. Fragments from stand up routines run up against slogans from adverts; conversations overheard in the post office queue or in the pub share space with song lyrics and mad neologisms. The effect is one of visual noise, compounded by Lowery’s blazing, psychedelic palette, somewhat comparable to 1960s rock posters that aimed to find a visual correlative for the trippy tunes they sought to promote.
Lowery has discussed the influence of music in his work, from the free jazz of Ornette Coleman to the free form rants and non-sequiturs of The Fall’s Mark E Smith. The atmosphere in Lowery’s work, though, as in some of The Fall’s records, is one of overwhelmed and exhausted despair.
ANY OLD CRAP IN ANY OLD ORDER, says one line, like the perplexed words of a critic spat back in furious sarcasm. One work, Fulcrum Grafter Masher, is dominated by a line from Tony Hancock’s suicide note: THINGS JUST WENT WRONG TOO MANY TIMES. That might be a way of summarising what Lowery calls his “desperate dissatisfaction” with the world of popular culture (“hate-fostering tabloids, listless reality TV”), but it’s also a disingenuous attitude: there’s a wild creative energy driving Lowery’s work that might be called, though cautiously, a celebration.

Knave Brew World
Steven Lowery
Knave Brew World
Steven Lowery
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