Rowan Roscher is an artist from Glasgow working across sculpture, ceramics and moving image. Rowan completed her undergraduate degree in Art and Philosophy at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee.
Her practice investigates the porous, holey nature of bodies, drawing from a desire to explore the inseparable nature of mind, body, and environment. Feminist philosophies, science fiction and body politics feed Rowan’s creative practice, but her work is driven most simply from her own human curiosities and insecurities.
In this new work, Rowan has created various imaginary viscera, crowned with a glowing navel. Influenced by ancient votives - often inaccurate anatomical depictions which carried both emotional and financial value - her contemporary votive vessels embody the exploitation of health anxiety via the spread of ‘wellness’ misinformation online, access disparity to healthcare, and biased medical research. Despite the advances of modern medicine, for many people our inner workings remain mysterious.
