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 ohn
Lowings was born in Cambridge, England of an Irish mother and an English
father. He studied photography at the London College of Printing and has
worked in the fields of graphic design, print, freelance commercial photography,
motor-cycle dispatch-riding, farm labouring, agricultural research, aid
work in Southern India, mental-health support and group-facilitation (amongst
others).
 is photographic
work is in collections in the USA, UK and Ireland - including that of the
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, of which he is a Fellow. He has exhibited at
venues in Ireland and the UK, including the Royal Photographic Society in
Bath. A collection of his landscape photographs from County Mayo was published
as a book entitled At the Edge of the World in 1998,
(Henry Holt, New York). Several of these images were used as I-Max sized
backdrops for a new ballet by Christopher Wheeldon commissioned by the San
Francisco Ballet and performed in the 2000 spring programme at the Opera
House in that city (review).
ohn’s
landscape work is informed by his sense of the spiritual in nature. In the
modern world we live our lives inside our heads driven by our ambitions,
obsessions, anxieties, wants. In the natural world we can feel truly a part
of the great continuum of life on our generous planet. At the same time
we must acknowledge that any image we make of nature is always as much a
reflection of ourselves as it is about the world it represents, and this
understanding is intrinsic to John’s work.
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