Zoe Spowage is a Leeds-based visual artist and Falmouth University graduate (2013), working in large-scale painting and drawing with dye, acrylic, and pastel. Her bold, expressive works explore themes of femininity, threat, and humour, influenced by her background as a scenic artist (2012–2018).
Zoe Spowage (b.1991. Nottingham, UK) is a Leeds-based visual artist and Falmouth University graduate (2013), working in large-scale painting and drawing with dye, acrylic, and pastel. Her bold, expressive works explore themes of femininity, threat, and humour, influenced by her background as a scenic artist.
Spowage received her BA in Fine Art from Falmouth University in 2013. Recent solo exhibitions include Pet, Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield, UK (2024); EXTRA EXTRA, Xxijra-hii, London, UK (2022); Tender and Complicit Hotdogging, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds, UK (2022); Ruby, Charles Abbey, Nottingham, UK
(2021); Broadsheet, Assembly House, Leeds, UK (2021). Recent group exhibitions include Family & Friends, Beers, London, UK (2023); Women in Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London, UK (2023); PUPPIES, East Street Arts, Leeds, UK (2023); Bodies, Gluttony and Me, Pictorum Gallery, London, UK (2023); Leeds Artist Show, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (2023).
Spowage received the Nottingham Castle Open Prize in 2016, the Surface Gallery Prize in 2017 and was shortlisted for the British Women Art Prize in 2018. She is a member of the Precious collective.
