LowryMoth is the studio of curator, artist and educator Kirsty Lowry, based in London, UK

A love of materials, making and sharing creativity with people has led my practice towards a specialism in bringing people together through making, material engagement and shared enquiry.

I have an enduring interest in environmental psychology; how the physical and elemental conditions of place can affect social interactions, attention, creativity, mood, anxiety, health and behaviour. This applies across my practice, from curating participatory exhibitions and spaces that feel welcoming in a contemporary gallery setting, to supporting schools and teachers to develop the conditions for creative learning in a mainstream settings, or developing installation works that create temporary environments that attempt to probe and manipulate our sense of wellbeing, belonging or anxieties.

As a maker my practice has evolved over the last few years to take the traditions of basketry and the ancient process of cordage and net making as a point to return to within the rest of my work. The simple act of twisting a fibre in your hands, one of human culture’s most fundamental technologies, has become the starting point for so many conversations and projects and the desire to share this and see where it can lead only becomes ever stronger!