About Rowanne
Rowanne Macleod was born in Viersen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, she studied at The University of the Highlands and Islands in Art and Contemporary Practice and now resides and practices in Aberdeen-shire Scotland. Rowanne creates conceptual artworks that question mortality and what it means to be human. Exploring conceptual themes of various cycles and cultural traditions in the world related to human mortality, such as the human life cycle and cycles in nature of the moon and sun. Rowanne creates art around this theme as she has a deep-rooted fascination with the knowledge of human mortality and its representation in different cultures throughout history for example Aztec human sacrifice death rituals. She has been involved in educational workshops and collaborations such as, educational workshops with The University of the Highlands and Islands and a high-profile collaboration with an artist in Leicester, Loz Atkinson, whose complete exhibition Finding the Fallen was documented by the BBC. Rowanne has also assisted with curating artist duo Andy and Peter Holden’s exhibition Natural Selection in Inverness gallery. Rowanne Macleod’s artwork involves primarily installation and digital artworks. Each using the shape and form of trees and arteries carrying the thought of blood flow within the human body.
About Rowanne's Art
Rowanne Macleod’s art is largely conceptual, centred around the understanding of what it means to be human regarding mortality and death. Her more recent works explore the spiritual feeling people can experience when affected by a death. She does this with imagery of skies and light sources as well as depictions of human artery looking trees. Showing her narrative of human death and the realism of its existence and how it can make people feel. Rowanne shows this link between nature and human death using digital painting. Rowanne creates cloudy skies during different moments of the sun and moon cycles. Some of her works show red vein trees, the addition of these trees is to show how death is seen in nature consistently and push the viewer to consider their mortality. Rowanne uses digital painting and her exhibition surroundings in her artworks to show her narrative towards human death. Utilising the space to envelop the viewer to have them realise their mortality. She does this through the use of light within the space as well as the size and location of the space, each to inform the viewer of their mortality.  A significant element to Rowanne’s artworks is the use of cycles: moon cycle, sun cycle, life cycle. It is these cycles that allow her work to be so diverse in actualising human mortality. In her current works, you can see how she has used the cycle of the sun and moon to give an air of spirituality.