Patricia Rowe is a Tasmanian Aboriginal artist who has produced shell necklaces, ceramic works and paintings on silk and satin. Rowe has lived between Cape Barren Island and mainland Tasmania, however she regards Cape Barren Island as her home. Her work is informed by her memories of the island, and her sense of affinity with particular places that have Indigenous spiritual and ancestral significance.
Rowe has used heat and coarse salt to bring texture to her richly coloured silk and satin paintings that memorialise island landscapes, and her shell-work and decorated thumb pots connect her with Indigenous creative traditions particular to the islands of north-east Tasmania. Exhibitions have included 'Taking Our Place’, which was curated by Vicki West and toured by CAST to the University gallery in Launceston and the Burnie Regional Gallery, Burnie (2002), and 'Woollily’, curated by Ricky Maynard at the Carnegie Gallery in Hobart (2003). Her work is in the collection of the Moonbird Heritage Trust.
- Writers:
- Fisher, Laura
- Date written:
- 2008
- Last updated:
- 2011
