Ariel Rowan 

Ariel Rowan — exhibition title: 'Lived Eclectience'

Ariel Rowan’s exhibition Lived Eclectience — a term combining Lived Experience and Eclecticism — draws together works from a 20-year (on and off) creative practice. Based in the Northern Rivers, Ariel is a father of three and an artist whose life experience deeply informs his work.

The exhibition includes intimate, deeply personal paintings alongside vibrant still lifes and landscapes of the rivers surrounding Lismore, created in response to lived experiences of the floods. Ariel’s recent studies in Psychology and Creative Practice have further informed his approach, allowing him to integrate reflection, theory, and lived reality into his visual language. Embracing Eclecticism has unlocked a sense of freedom in his practice — a permission to paint “everything.”