Marcus Rowlands Studio

My practice explores the notion of forms being held in and inhabiting space through rhythmical repetition of marks, geometry and motifs. 

I have been exploring the potential use of software and CNC machining with support from the Art Council. Developing work that embraces the order of technology and my subversion of programming. I am working with these processes in collaboration with my own drawing and expressive interventions. 

I paint with the uncontrollable bleeding of a wood stain and incorporate the chaos of burning to capture and remove the surface many times over.  Revealing marks and forms in that process to create a beautiful visual tension and wildness within geometrical and mathematical boundaries.

I am a Nottingham based artist/maker and historically I have created interactive sculptures and exhibited at Bonington Art Gallery, Brighton Art Gallery, Rochdale Art Gallery & Museum and Norwich Museum & Art Gallery. In 2000 I was awarded a Year of the Artist grant to work with the seed collection and MRI technology at Wollaton Hall, Natural History Museum. The same year, Craftspace commissioned leather sculptures for a UK touring exhibition and an crafts residency at the UHB NHS Cancer Centre. I have been commissioned by The Civic, Barnsley, to collaborate with photographer Gavin Joynt and collaborated with 2hD Architects on sculptural commissions for Lakeside Arts Centre at Nottingham University.

In the last couple of years I have exhibited at The Old Lock Up Gallery, been selected for The Ballinglen Biennial Open 2025, the New Art Exchange Open 2026 and Britten Pears Summer Contemporary 2026.