Rudy Loewe is a visual artist engaging social histories, politics and Caribbean folklore through painting and drawing.
2023 year exhibited in Biennial Find out more
Recent exhibitions include Unattributable Briefs: Act One, Staffordshire St (2022); New Contemporaries,Humber Street Gallery & South London Gallery (2022); NAE Open 22, New Art Exchange (2022); and The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy (2021).
Loewe graduated in 2018 with an MFA from Konstfack, receiving the RektorStavenowska award for academic excellence. In 2021 Loewe was Artist In Residence at the Serpentine Gallery alongside their collaborator, Jacob V Joyce. Loewe began a Techne funded practice-based PhD at the University of the Arts London in 2021, examining Britain’s role in suppressing Black Power movements in the English-speaking Caribbean during the 1960s and 70s. This work uses recently declassified records from The National Archives as source material for painting and drawing.
Loewe has been a member of three collectives: Collective Creativity (UK), Brown Island (Sweden) and Grounding Future(s) (Sweden).
Liverpool Biennial 2023
The Reckoning (2023)
Rudy Loewe presents a new large-scale installation based on the artist’s painting ‘February 1970, Trinidad #1’, which depicts Moko jumbie (a stilt walker) and other Carnival mas players (participants who wear masquerade costumes and march in the parade) coming to the aid of the people at a moment of Black Power revolution in Trinidad and Tobago. For Liverpool Biennial, ‘The Reckoning’ (2023) transports these spirits to the site of The Old Dock where they confront Britain’s colonial legacy and its contemporary reverberations. The work also engages with the Sailors’ Home Gateway, located on Paradise Street, a freestanding monument to the since demolished Liverpool Sailors’ Home. The Home operated as a sanctuary for sailors passing through the city and provided affordable
Rudy Loewe presents a new large-scale installation based on the artist’s painting ‘February 1970, Trinidad #1’, which depicts Moko jumbie (a stilt walker) and other Carnival mas players (participants who wear masquerade costumes and march in the parade) coming to the aid of the people at a moment of Black Power revolution in Trinidad and Tobago. For Liverpool Biennial, ‘The Reckoning’ (2023) transports these spirits to the site of The Old Dock where they confront Britain’s colonial legacy and its contemporary reverberations. The work also engages with the Sailors’ Home Gateway, located on Paradise Street, a freestanding monument to the since demolished Liverpool Sailors’ Home. The Home operated as a sanctuary for sailors passing through the city and provided affordable accommodation as well as educational and recreational opportunities. Loewe aims to visualise Black histories and social politics through their work, particularly focusing on a critique of Britain’s role in suppressing Black Power organising in the English-speaking Caribbean during the 1960s and 70s. ‘The Reckoning’ acts as a portal to imagine and learn about these histories; it is a manifestation of power, but not the kind that oppresses. Showing at Liverpool ONE: Rudy Loewe
The Reckoning (2023)
Showing at Liverpool ONE: Rudy Loewe
