Blood Orange :
The Paul Bowles Poems
MILES LOWRY

Blood Orange is one artist’s personal response to another artist. An inveterate traveler, composer and writer, Paul Bowles was a truly remarkable figure whose life and work embodied and responded to the major impulses of the twentieth century. His life would be of considerable interest even if he had not produced a great body of work in literature and music, because of the lives of other writers that intersected his as he relentlessly traveled the globe from New York to Northern Africa and Latin America, into the landscapes that would become the unique backdrops for his fiction. His literary work remains a steady influence on others, and Miles Lowry is one artist who has been deeply affected by him.

Miles Lowry has been exhibiting paintings and sculptures in solo and group exhibitions since 1981. He is best known for his life-size sculptures and fragments, which explore the idea of the body as an expressive canvas. A self-trained artist, his works are seen in a wide variety of exhibitions, publications and performances. His sculptural installation – Dissolve /Reveal, portraying a group of figures appearing to dissolve, was chosen Peoples Choice at Artropolis 2002 and he was subsequently a subject for CBC’s Artspots shown nationally. He is also known as a writer and photographer (Paris Quebec, from Ekstasis Editions, features his photographs). He is also an Artistic Director for Suddenly Dance Theatre in Victoria where he is working in video arts and new media on an installation entitled Nature Ecstasy. He has four times been awarded a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland where he is creating a series of paintings – Breathing Spaces.