About Andy Lowrie

Andy Lowrie is a jewelry artist who makes wearable, sculptural and functional objects, as well as works on paper. He is an Australian maker, living and working in the United States.

His work draws on the power of a wearable object to act as an extension of a maker (his own) and wearer’s intentions and desires. He is driven by material and process and uses narratives of queerness, family, labor and environmental catastrophe in his work. The metaphoric potential of process and material is an enduring theme and he intentionally works with material in ways that make the manipulation of them transparent. This is seen especially in his use of surfaces finishes like paint, powder coat and vitreous enamel through processes of coating, removing, combining and layering. While this partly reveals his hand in making the work, he also aims to capture a sense of unmaking, embracing transformation and growth but also decay and entropy. In this way, his objects are created to reflect and sympathize with the bodies they are made to adorn.

His work has been exhibited in Australia, China, Europe and North America, and has been professionally recognized with awards from Brooklyn Metal Works in New York and My-Day By-Day Gallery in Rome. From 2020-2023 he was the inaugural Teaching Fellow at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at Towson University and Johns Hopkins University.