Michael Rowe
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Michael Rowe was a visiting lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts, London from 1976–1982 and at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education from 1973 to 1984. He has been a member of staff at the Royal College of Art since 1984 and is now a Senior Tutor. In 1987 he was made a Fellow. Research into the colouring and patination of metals carried out at Camberwell College of Art with Richard Hughes from 1979 to 1982 led to the publication of the book The Colouring, Bronzing and Patination of Metals (1982). Rowe is a Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 1988 he was winner of the Sotheby's decorative Arts Award and in 1993 was awarded a Japan Foundation Artists Fellowship. In 1998, he was a prizewinner in the European Prize for Contemporary Art and Design-led Crafts organised by the World Crafts Council, and in 2002, he was recipient of the Golden Ring of Honour from the Association of German Goldsmiths, the Gesellschaft fur Goldschmidekunst. A major retrospective of his work Michael Rowe: poetics and geometry was held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2003. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Buckinghamshire New University in 2004, and an honorary doctorate by Hasselt University, Belgium, in 2010. A monograph on his work, Michael Rowe, by Martina Margetts and Richard Hill, was published in 2003.
Books
Candle in the wind
Every word of his might well be a lie Adrift in the Caribbean, wrecked against a reef, stranded alone on an island with someone who called himself Mike Scott--Samantha tried desperately to recall the events that had brought her to such an impasse. Samantha couldn't remember anything--not her name, nor even this tall, suntanned stranger who had saved her from death and who claimed to be her husband. But Samanha had no proof, no papers, no ring, no recollection of those deep blue eyes that kept staring intently into her own. She wanted to believe him--but how could she?
Colouring, Bronzing and Patination
"The techniques of metal colouring, bronzing and patination are assuming a new importance in contemporary fine metalwork and design. Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe have assembled and tested the recipes included in this book, which is the most comprehensive work on the subject currently available, an essential reference and sourcebook for practitioners and all those involved in sculpture, architecture, design and the decorative arts. It brings together hundreds of recipes and treatments previously scattered in a variety of old books and technical papers, and provides the artist-craftsman with a very wide range of coloured finishes. Each of the recipes included has been tested and evaluated by the authors, and the practical procedures involved are clearly explained. In addition, they have devised techniques that considerably broaden the range of surface finishes that can be obtained."--Publisher description.