Mark Rowden’s works capture modern moments, memories, and the quiet echoes of the past.
Inspired by everyday interactions, isolation, and fleeting beauty, Rowden constructs images that invite reflection and movement. His work draws from a deep well of technical mastery and emotional insight.
A master printer who has collaborated with many of Australia’s renowned artists, Rowden brings decades of experience to every stage of the printmaking process. Specialising in traditional relief printmaking techniques, he breaks down visual forms into bold, graphic compositions—carving shadows and spaces that speak to our shared stories of modern life.
His prints are at once intimate and universal—linked through symbolic language, personal memory, and a powerful sense of place.
EDUCATION
1999
BFA in Printmaking, National Art School Sydney
1997
Diploma in Fine Arts, TAFE NSW
SOLO WORK
2025
Contours – Larissa Wild Fine Art – Colorado, USA
2024
Line and Leaf – Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
2023
Whispers of Winter – Larissa Wild Fine Art – Colorado, USA
2022
Mural – Public school NSW
2019
Watching – Disorder Gallery, Sydney
2016
Animal Parade – Broken Hill regional Gallery, Broken Hill, NSW
2015
Lane Cove Traffic Box Project, Sydney
Woollahra Traffic Box Project, Sydney
2013
Ednamorphosis – Conductors Project/St James & Museum station
Wonderland: memories of childhood – Sydney Children’s Hospital
2011
Burlesque, Ballet & Cirque – GAFFA gallery
2010
White Silence – Bondi Pavilion Gallery
SELECT PRIZES
2026
Winter Art Prize, NSCC Gallery, Sydney2026
2025
Life Line Art Exhibition and Prize
9×5 Landscape prize – 2 works, was, Sydney (Finalist)
Nude and Naked – Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree (Finalist)
2024
Small Summer Works Show & Prize – Brighton, Victoria (WINNER)
MAP Portrait Prize – Mudgee, NSW – (FINALIST)
Greenway Art Prize, White Bay, Sydney – (FINALIST)
EWART Art Prize – Willoughby, Sydney – (HIGHLY COMMENDED)
9×5 Landscape prize – 2 works, was, Sydney (DUO Finalist)
North Sydney Art Prize, Coal loader, Sydney – (HIGHLY COMMENDED)
2023
Gippsland Print Award
Sunshine Coast Art Prize – (FINALIST)
Remagine Art Prize – (FINALIST)
2021
Doug Moran Portrait Prize – (SEMI-FINALIST)
Remagine Art Prize – (FINALIST)
The Online Art Competition – (FINALIST)
2015
Hornsby Art Prize – (FINALIST)
Glebe Art Prize – Glebe Library
2009
Glebe Art Prize – Glebe Library
2008
Waverley Art Prize – (WINNER)
2007
Hazelhurst Art Award: Art on Paper – Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (FINALIST)
2003
Waverley Art Prize – (FINALIST)
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Uncertain Sancturay – The Garden Gallery, Sydney
Beginning – Something Else Gallery, Sydney
Incognito – Brisbane
Rubbing Shoulders – Ewart Gallery, Sydney
2025
Visible but Intangible – Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney
Intersect Art and Design Fair, Aspen, USA
Habitat – Belco Arts Centre, ACT
Unique State – Lane Cove Gallery, Sydney
Short n Sweet – Tiliqua Tiliqua Sydney
Visible but intangible – Megalo Print Studio, ACT
2024
Dear Forests – Belco Arts, ACT
Sydney Contemporary – Whaling Road Studio, Carriage Works, Sydney
Art on Paper – New York, Manhattan, New York, USA
Visible but intangible – PCA Gallery, Melbourne
Selected – CBD Gallery, Sydney
Divergent – Humble House Gallery, Canberra, ACT
2023
Sydney Printmakers – Lane Cove Art Gallery, Sydney
The Lanterns Pavilion – Haymarket Institute
Borglum and Wild Art Gallery – Colorado, US
Secret Sitter – GoodSpace
Bare – Sol Gallery, Melbourne
Prints4Ukarine – CBD gallery, Sydney
COLLECTIONS
Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Geelong Regional Gallery, State Library NSW