Rose Lowder (Lima, 1941) is a central figure in contemporary experimental cinema. Her work is held in the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, MoMA in New York and the Art Gallery of Ontario, and has been the subject of retrospectives at the Art Institute of Chicago, the California Institute of the Arts, the Cinémathèque française and Tate Modern. In 1982, she co-founded the Archives du film expérimental d'Avignon, one of the most important institutions for the preservation and dissemination of non-commercial cinema in Europe. Her connection to the United Kingdom is deep and formative: after studying painting and sculpture in Lima, Lowder moved to London, where she trained at the Regent Street Polytechnic (1960–1962) and the Chelsea School of Art (1962–1964). Between 1964 and 1972, she worked as an editor in the British film industry —including at the BBC— in close dialogue with figures involved in English Structural Film such as Malcolm Le Grice. More recently, the Tate Modern presented a retrospective of her work titled Under the Sun: The Films of Rose Lowder, curated by Anat Pick and George Clark in association with the Screening Nature project (funded by the AHRC) at Queen Mary University of London and the University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury.
