Jack Rowland
Jack Rowland transforms the familiar Australian landscape into hyper-real paintings of an unfamiliar, dreamlike, almost alien environment. By combining a realist style of technical oil painting, with otherworldly, saturated colours, Rowland revitalizes the genre of landscape painting and offers an alternative way of viewing the natural world.
Since graduating in 2009 with a B.F.A. from RMIT, Roland has been the subject of three solo exhibitions at Anna Pappas. In 2013, Rowland completed a residency in Berlin with Takt; culminating in the group exhibitions Naturlich!, Kunstraum at Tapir and Above From Below at The Cellar Gallery. Roland was a finalist in the 2016 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize and in 2009 received the Tolarno Art Prize.
Jack Rowland
Born 1987, Melbourne. Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia
Education
2009 BFA (Painting), RMIT University, Melbourne
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Alternative Territories, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2014
Illusive Reality, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2013
Realise, Richmond Town Hall, Melbourne
2012
Unfamiliar, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Linden Projects: Atmosphere, Linden New Art, Melbourne
2013
Transition Period, Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
Naturlich!, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin
Above From Below, The Cellar Gallery, Berlin
2012
Kultopia, Blindside, Melbourne
2011
Belle Arti, Chapman & Bailey Art Prize, Melbourne
2010
Exploration 10, Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Now Here, 1000 Pound Bend, Melbourne
New, Used and Abused, Loft Gallery, Melbourne
Shuffle, 550 Swan Gallery, Melbourne
Fit To Print, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Media & Publications
2012
Dan Rule, In The Galleries, The Age: Life & Style
Awards and Residencies
2016 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne (Finalist)
2013 Hawkesbury Art Prize, Sydney (Finalist)
2013 Takt residency, Berlin
2012 Hawkesbury Art Prize, Sydney (Commended Award)
2009 Tolarno Art Prize, RMIT University, Melbourne
Selected Collections
Hotel Tolarno Collection, Australia
