About
Tina Rowe works with the tools and processes of analogue photography. She works with both her own archive and external archives and collections. Her work explores the narrative possibilities of analogue processes and practices.
She frequently teaches alternative processes with special interest in cyanotype, liquid photographic emulsion, lith printing and mordançage.
She is currently a PhD student at Chelsea College of Art, part of UAL. Her research is a practice led exploration of the identities of adults who were transracially adopted. she is herself an Anglo Somali transracial adoptee.
Exhibitions
2020-present
2024 Processing the Past, London
2023 The nOse Billboard Project, Walton on the Naze, Essex, UK
2023 Porous Light Espacio Gallery London
2023 Do Not Disconnect, Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
2023 Seaside Blues, The Nose, Walton on the Naze, UK
2023 Transformations, Margate, UK
2022 Beauty Where You Find It, Sliver City, New Mexico, USA
2022 Light Beguile, Holloway, London
2021 Art Outside, Glyn Road Studios
2021 Matiere et Lumiere, with Rachel Thomson Bodega Gallery, London
2020- onwards #galleryanyplace ad hoc art shows in multiple locations
2020 Alternative Photography, Heidelberg, Germany
2020 e5Process Salon, Clapton Hart Upstairs
2015-2020
2019 Object-itfy, the Photograph as Object Group Show, London
2019 Light Fantastic, Group Show, Cheltenham
2019 e5Process Salon Show, London
2019 17:59+4, group show, Bethnal Green, London
2018 Over the Hills and Far Away Tim Andrews, Brighton Photo Fringe
2018 onwards Obsolete and Discontinued, touring group show, London, Naples, Lublijana
2018 National Rail No Boundaries, Kings Cross London
2018 Revela-T Solo exhibition, My Mother’s House, Vliassar De Dalt, Catalonia, Spain
2018 Near Water, Group Exhibition, Homerton, London
2017 Random Artists HOME, ExFed Building, London
2017 Revela-T Analogue Festival, Vliassar De Dalt, Catalonia, Spain
2017 Pavlovka pinhole fest, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 Time a Sonic Vigil, e5Process Collective and Breathing Space collaboration, Hackney
2016 Surface and Light, e5Process Collective Exhibition. Archive Gallery, Dalston.
2016 London Pinhole Festival, Doomed Gallery, Dalston
2015 Open School East Final Show
Residencies and Prizes
- British School in Athens Research Residency 2023-24
- The Nose, Walton on the Naze 2021
- Dennis Roussel Award 2019
- Revela-T Analogue Festival Artist Residency 2016
- C.A.S.T. Cornwall 2015
- Estonian Printing Museum Artist Residency 2014
Publications
- Processing the Past/Where the Light Gets In Artist’s Book, Edition of 20
- Street Fruit 2023 – Handmade Artist’s Book Edition of 5
- Covid Commemoration 2021 – Handmade Artist’s Book Edition of 5
- My Mother’s House 2018
- A Ghost Near Water 2017 – Handmade Artist’s Book Edition of 20
- Abney Park Cemetery 2010
Talks, Papers and Presentations
- BSA returning resident talk Hellenic Centre, London January 2025
- BSA Research Resident Talk, Athens 2024
- Art in a World on Fire Presentation, Singapore 2024
- LCP Artist Talk, Process and Meaning 2019
- Dhaka Art Summit, Cyanotype, 2018
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