Caitlin Rowley

Caitlin Rowley is a composer-performer and artist whose work often playfully addresses ideas surrounding private spaces, memory and aural imagination. Her work draws on many strands of her experience as artist, designer, coder and writer, and encompasses practically everything from scores which are unique art objects to virtual reality to video art. Occasionally she also writes notes for instruments and voices.

Caitlin’s work has been performed and exhibited at hcmf//, Aldeburgh Festival, Kings Place, the Barbican, Southbank Centre, SPOR Festival (Denmark), the NOWnow Festival (Australia) and the Royal Academy of Arts (among others), and broadcast on national radio in the UK and Australia. She is a member of acclaimed composer-performer group Bastard Assignments, with whom she was a Snape Maltings Open Space artist in 2017-19.

Caitlin’s early compositional training was with Peter Sculthorpe at the University of Sydney, followed by studies in screen composition at the Australian Film Television and Radio School and a Graduate Diploma in Design before she left Sydney to move to the UK. In 2012 she returned to her music studies after a 15+ year career as a web interface developer, graduating from Trinity Laban’s Master of Fine Arts (Creative Practice) degree with Distinction in 2014. At Trinity Laban, she studied with Errollyn Wallen, Paul Newland and Stephen Montague, and started her association with Bastard Assignments. At the time of writing (September 2022) she is completing her doctoral thesis, Studio/Stage: Questioning the division between private and public creative spaces through interdisciplinary composition, at Bath Spa University, under the supervision of Prof. James Saunders and Dr Robert Luzar.

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Photograph by Frederick Goff. Styling/art direction by Harry Evans and Robert George Sanders.