{"title":"William Lowry","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Lowry (b. 2001) is an artist based between London and Oxford. He is undertaking an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2024-2026), having completed a BFA at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford (2020-2023, First Class Honours). Awards include the Max Werner Drawing Prize and Hermione Hammond Drawing Award (2025), the Euan Uglow Scholarship (2024), and the Vivien Leigh Prize (Ashmolean Museum) and Peter Kirk Travel Scholarship (2023). Exhibitions include New English Art Club Annual Exhibition (Mall Galleries, London) and East Wing Biennial (The Courtauld).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"strange-fire","title":"Strange Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Strange Fire (2025)' is a small-scale work on maple-veneered MDF, combining oil pastel, pen and pencil to build a layered, hand-worked image where grain, pressure and revision remain visible. The piece is professionally presented in a stained wooden box frame and is intended for close viewing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 15 x 20cm (unframed) it asks for slow, close looking, where nuance lives in smudges and erasures. In that gap, the digital promise of precision feels fragile, and ambiguity becomes a generative space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Lowry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56932997136766,"sku":"HC1171","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/6545\/8814\/files\/Screenshot_2026-02-16_at_17.12.19.png?v=1771261948"},{"product_id":"the-instruction-manual","title":"The Instruction Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The Instruction Manual' (2024) stages a tension between instruction and lived experience. A figure reads from a physical book, an object that promises clarity and procedure, yet the image refuses certainty. Acrylic, pencil, pen and chalk are layered on board so the surface becomes a site of revision: rubbed back, overwritten, and re-asserted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe manual becomes less a set of steps than a rehearsal, where meaning arrives through approximation and attention rather than fixed output. The scene suggests the limits of systems that claim total legibility. Even when instructions exist, interpretation remains bodily and fallible, shaped by fatigue, desire, and misreading. The work uses analogue mark-making to keep that gap open, between what can be specified and what can only be sensed or inferred.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Lowry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56933038326142,"sku":"HC1172","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/6545\/8814\/files\/Screenshot_2026-02-16_at_17.18.36.png?v=1771262325"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/6545\/8814\/collections\/Screenshot_2026-02-03_at_12.47.38_bc0266a2-56b4-49da-84ab-ed96072dd278.png?v=1770141440","url":"https:\/\/hyphacurates.com\/collections\/william-lowry.oembed","provider":"Hypha Curates","version":"1.0","type":"link"}