LowryMoth: Dew Point
Residency
20 – 26 April 2026
LowryMoth is the studio of interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator Kirsty Lowry, in residence at Back Lane West for a new project Dew Point.
The dew point is part of an, unnoticed but continually shifting, elemental state that significantly influences ecological balance. It refers to the temperature at which air becomes saturated with water vapour and is experienced as clouds, rain, fog or dew.
The title is a nod to the artist’s enduring fascination in the elemental conditions of place as an influence on, and marker of, psychological state. Lowry’s work plays with this environmental psychology, creating objects and spaces that test, manipulate or attempt to ease a sense of anxiety, fear or unease.
The use of raw materials from the natural environment increasingly plays a role in this practice; through the process of working with plant fibres Lowry forms an intimate relationship with the localised conditions of place; gathering, twisting and testing the tensile qualities of a tangled weed, wild grasses or leaves fallen from municipal planting, using ancient craft techniques to make vessels, cordage and nets.
For Dew Point, Lowry is spending an intensive week in residence at Back Lane West, marking a return to the familiar landscapes of her upbringing in Cornwall, to work with locally sourced natural and found material to create a series of large, handmade nets that ultimately will form the hanging, ephemeral walls of a larger installation to be presented at Auction House in the autumn.

Open Studio: Sat 25 April, 11:00 – 16:00
Drop in to view the work in progress, with a chance to turn your hand to some of the processes involved in using plants as fibre.