Nicole Rowe, born in 1982 lives in Centurion, South Africa. She
obtained her B-Tech Degree in Fine and Applied Arts at Tshwane University of Technology with a diploma in glass in 2008.
Nicole
is currently studying to become an Art Life Coach.
She has frequently exhibited at The Viewing Room, Art Lovers 1932,
Johann van Heerden’s and ArtBox art galleries as well as The Arts Association of Pretoria and The
Pretoria Art Museum. She has sold artworks at Russell Kaplan Auctioneers
and to private clients internationally.
Her
latest solo exhibition was in 2022 Spectrums of light held at The
Viewing Room Art Gallery. She also took part in The United International year
of glass 2022 Fired Up! exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum with her
artwork titled ‘Project Silica’.
In 2018 she was selected to take part in an exhibition entitled Back to the Future featuring
Contemporary South African Glass Artists and hosted by The Association of Arts
in Pretoria. Her work was also shown at
the same venue in 2016 in an exhibition entitled Out of the Fire, and into the Light.
Her first solo exhibition A
Beautiful Mind was held in 2015 at Art Lovers 1932. Telkom sponsored her in
2015 to create an artwork for the ITWeb Brainstorm calendar. In 2014 Nicole was
selected as one of the Top 10 winners of ABSA L'Atelier. She was selected in
Sasol New Signatures Art Competition in 2007.
Nicole would describe herself as an eclectic artist. Her approach
to creating work is unusual. Using glass as her primary resource - be it
textured, digitally printed, spray painted or sandblasted - she then sets out
to combine it with various mediums. Participating in workshops at the Ngwenya
Glass Factory only served to reinforce her love for the medium. She was excited by the possibilities that the digital domain could
offer, and she started actively pursuing and experimenting with printing on glass,
vinyl, aluminium, transparency, and paper.
What excites her as an artist is the freedom it provides, allowing her
to actively explore and implement concepts from any field without restrictions.
