Description
The Contemporary Crafts Series is a unique collection of books profiling the work and careers of key applied artists working in Britain today. The makers featured have had a significant influence on contemporary practice and have created a lasting and substantial body of work. Each book is the first major publication on the individual maker. Written by experts in the field, insightful texts combine with stunning reproductions to create focused studies of the work of leading contemporary applied artists.A leading maker and influential teacher for nearly thirty years, Michael Rowe (b.1948) is now regarded as one of the most significant figures in the development of contemporary applied art in England. Rowe is an artist and designer in metal, whose skill and experience as a practitioner has enabled him to achieve work of great purity and complexity, in which there is a creative tension between geometry and poetry, between systematic visual enquiry and joy in the working of metal. An innovative and inquiring maker, Michael Rowe's challenging work is ripe for investigation; an opportunity embraced by this fascinating study of his varied career to date.
