Marcus Rowlands Studio

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

For the last few years I have been exploring the potential use of software and CNC machines with support from the Art Council. Developing work that exists with the order of technology and the act of subverting software. I am working with these processes in collaboration with my own drawing and interventions. 

I paint with the uncontrollable bleeding of a wood stain, incorporate the chaos of burning and the order of programmable CNC cutting.  It is a process of capturing and removing the surface many times over.  I attempt to reveal hidden marks and forms in that process to create a visual tension and wildness within geometrical and mathematical boundaries.

I am a Nottingham based artist 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 YOTA working 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 arts 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 and for the New Art Exchange Open 2026.