Artist Spotlight - Bruce Cowell — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Bruce Cowell is an international artist who works in fine-art photography. His work consists mainly of real life "found" images rather than manufactured ones.
Featured as one of the “Artists to Watch in 2025” in Art Tour International magazine, Jan 2025.
2024 Received the "Persona Art Honours Award" for artistic excellence and the creation of a new visual language from Contemporary Art Station, Barcelona. Also featured in the book "Persona Art Honours".
In November 2024 work exhibited at the San Diego Art Fair, USA

Canberra Airport, 2023. Photograph, 62X45cm

Awarded an Honorable Mention in the CFA Artist of the Month Awards, May 2024, France.
A finalist in the Artavita Artist of the Year Awards, Jan 2024, California USA.
The image "Canberra Airport" received an Artistic Excelence Award in the 2023 CFA International Artist of the Year awards, France.
Received a Creative Excellence award from the CFA Press in France, November 2023.
From mid 2022 to mid 2023 Bruce Cowell is a featured artist on the web site of the Circle Foundation for the Arts based in Lyon, France.

Figure_sun#3, 2000, photograph, 61.7X45cm,

In March and April 2020 he had an exhibition with others at the Marziart International Gallery in Hamburg, Germany, and is a featured artist in the arts magazine "Spotlight"which was released in March 2020.
Finalist in the online art competition by Circle-Arts .com with Expo-Arts New York and is presented as a featured artist on the Circle Foundation for the Arts web site 2021.
Exhibited at the WWA Pavillion in New York in 2020

Bruce Cowell has been featured in the publications:
"International Kunst Heute" (International Art Today) Published By Martina Kohl Publishing, Munich, Germany.
“WeContemporary Art Catalogue” published by Musa International Art Space, Palermo Italy
September 2023 his work was included in the digital publication "Biographies - Contemporary Art" Published in Italy by La Notizia.
Bruce Cowells' work was reviewed in “Contemporary Art Curator” magazine 2024.

Sydney City#1, 2018, photograph, 50X33.6cm.

Also reviewed in the international art magazine “Art in View” 2024
as well as the web site "Art Insight" June 2024
Featured as one of the “Artists to Watch in 2025” in “Art Tour International” magazine, Jan 2025.
Featured in the book “Who's Who in Visual Art – 75 Fine Art Photographers” published by Who-is Verlag, Leipzig Germany.
“Spotlight” magazine published by the Circle Foundation for the Arts.
“Art Ideal” magazine published by the Circle Foundation For The Arts.

Late Afternoon Walk, 2019, photograph, 73X46cm

Second prize winner in the Artrom Gallery "Consequences of Light" photographic competition in Rome Italy and second prize winner in the Hasselblad Masters of Photography Competition.
The image "Beth Plays the Clowns" received an Honorable Mention in the Circle Foundation Artist of the Year Awards 2019, Lyon, France. This photograph was also exhibited at the Tokyo Tower Art Fair, 2023

Commissioned as an artist to produce images for projection on to the giant sun-sails that covered much of the site of World Expo 1988 in Brisbane, Australia.
Photographer for the book, "Wild Places of Greater Brisbane" ( No.1 best seller in Queensland for twelve straight weeks.) Senior photographer for the books, "Wild Guide to Moreton Bay", " Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane", "Discovery Guide to Outback Queensland", "Wildlife of Greater Brisbane", "Kangaroos of Queensland", "Wildlife of Tropical north Queensland".

He was Senior Photographer and Picture Editor for "Wildlife Australia" magazine and co-ordinator and judge of the "Australian Wildlife Photographer of the Year" competition.
Some of his photographs were used to illustrate the World Heritage nomination document submitted to UNESCO to gain world heritage protection for the Australian wet tropical rainforests.
Principal photographer in the "Outback Queensland" photographic exhibition that toured Queensland, Australia.

Beth Plays the Clowns, 2000, photograph, 76X52cm.

Artist Statement

Photography speaks to us at a deeply human level about those things that are most important to us and touches our emotions. Love and connection are enduring themes that run through my work. This is because I see them as the primary motivators in our lives. They are our constant everyday link with eternity. My view is that fine-art photography exists to capture the eternal in the everyday. Those moments that transcend time and place and link us to the universe.

Father and Daughter, 1995, photograph, 56X37.5cm

A photograph speaks of who we are as people and creates a link between the photograph and its audience and it's that link that gives photography value.
Some photographs can cross into a whole other realm and become iconic, subjective and eternal. They speak of eternal truths that are as recognisable today as they were a thousand years ago. Language, culture, lifestyle, distance, do not limit that understanding. Photography speaks a language that all humans understand.

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