Cybele Rowe

Cybele Rowe (born 1963 in Sydney, Australia), is an Australian ceramic artist based in Yucca Valley, California, United States.

She is known for monumental ceramic sculptures and has been actively exhibiting in the United States and Australia for nearly 30 years.

Life and career Cybele Rowe was born in 1963 in Sydney, Australia. She attended high school at Loreto Convent Kirribilli in Sydney, and received her Bachelor of The Arts in Fine Arts as well as a postgraduate degree at the City Art Institute University in New South Wales.

Rowe actively exhibited in galleries in Australia including the Blaxland Gallery in Sydney and the Distelfink Gallery in Melbourne before she relocated to New York Cit; while there, her work has been displayed in the World Bank, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian.

Sculpture Much of Rowe’s art is monumental bronze casts, clay sculpture and ceramic work. Highly abstract with flowing patterns and colors, she states that she desires to create “organically and intuitively,” giving abstract thoughts and concepts physical forms while “constructing a unique model through almost subconscious anticipation.” Pleasing Female Imagery, Human Shells as Temples and Femelements were created in the three years after the birth of her first son, reestablishing her identity as an artist and sculptor; Fertility was finished after the birth of her daughter; a series of sculptures considered the essence emotions such as love and desire. Husks, a series of large, off white ceramic sculptures pockmarked with scratches and etchings, questions the identity of womanhood after childbirth.