Max Bowden paints and lives in Northern Australia. Max trained at the Adelaide Central School of Art under Rod Taylor, Anna Platten and Christopher Orchard.
Often working outdoors en plein air, her work tries to distil an essence of that moment.
Exhibitions
2024 James Makin Gallery – Solo show – “Great sage, kinda equal to heaven”.
2023 James Makin Gallery – ‘Summer New”
2022 James Makin Gallery – ‘Pendulum’ – Catalogue BOWDEN_pendulum_2022_np
2022 Hadley’s Art Prize – Finalist – Tasmania
2022 Mitchell Fine Art ‘Monochrome’ – Monochrome_mitchell_gallery_april2022
2022 James Makin Gallery ‘Summer New’ – Melbourne
2021 Paul Johnstone Gallery – Monsoon – Group Show – Catalogue pjg_monsoon_21
2021 James Makin Gallery – ‘Habits’ – Catalogue BOWDEN_habits_2021
2021 Mitchell Fine Art ‘Twenty – Female Group Show’ – Brisbane
2021 Northern Centre for Contemporary Art – Group Show – Darwin
2021 James Makin Gallery – Group Show
2020 Rick Amor Self Portrait Prize – Finalist – Melbourne
2020 Paul Johnstone Gallery – What was Supposed to Happen – Catalogue or mb_catalogue2020
2019 Don Whyte ‘Off Cuts’
2019 Wagait Arts Festival (WAGS)
2019 Artist in the Park – Territory Wildlife Park
2018 Don Whyte ‘Off Cuts’
2013 WAGS Art Exhibition
2005 Wood Street Gallery (DVAA) Darwin – Bookends – Solo show
2005 Wood Street Gallery (DVAA) Darwin – Blind Date – group show
2005 Darwin Festival Star Shell – Cooperblack
2005 Charles Darwin University – UNI38 – group show
2004 Wood Street Gallery (DVAA) Darwin – Raw
2003 24 HR Art Gallery (members show) – ‘Ramp’
2002 Fringe 2002 ‘Open Sandwich’
2002 ‘ME’ Solo show, Carclew Ballroom
2001 SALA ‘conversations 9 by 5’
2001 Whyalla Art Prize ‘Onesteel Young SA Artists Award’
2001 Lombard Art Gallery ‘Express Art’
2001 City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters ‘Express Art’ (group show)
2000 Fringe 2000 ‘Melisma’
1999 North Terrace Temporary Gallery Space ‘Off the Terrace’
Art Awards
2022 Hadley’s Art Prize, One Month Residency – Tasmania
2019 Artist in the Park Residency – Territory Wildlife Park
2019 First Prize Wagait Arts Festival – Darwin
2013 First Prize WAGS Art Exhibition – Darwin
High Commendation. 24HR Art Graduate Art Award, Darwin
Raft Gallery Award, Graduate Art Exhibition, Charles Darwin University, Darwin
2002 First Prize: Whyalla Art Prize, Young South Australian Artist’s Award, Whyalla Art Prize
Scholarship: Adelaide Central School of Art, Adelaide (under Rod Taylor, Anna Platten and Christopher Orchard)
Studio Residency: Carclew Youth Arts Centre, Brompton studios, Adelaide