Stephanie Rowe

As a painter, the subject of technology, its impact on perception and the myriad ways in which the world is experienced and interpreted, interests me greatly.

Employing a rudimentary method, I extract stills from videos eliciting various digital distortions such as data drop-out, overexposure, colour alterations, grids, and pixelation. These stills serve as references for my small-scale representational paintings which are meticulously rendered. I then work in a generative manner to create larger abstract paintings based on the pigments, fragments, technological aesthetics and other remnants of my small-scale work.

My current subject matter focuses on anomalous phenomena and the limits of scientific understanding, and draws on film footage of unidentifiable aerial events, inexplicable weather occurrences, and Earth Sciences archives, among others. Through this work I engage with ideas that challenge dominant narratives about our understanding of the cosmos and humanity's place within it.