Cybele Rowe was born in Sydney Australia. After graduating with
degrees in Sculpture and Painting, Rowe relocated to NYC at age 24.
Pursuing her ceramics and paintings she was featured in Bergdorf
Goodman, the World BAnk WAshington DC, The Kennedy Center and lectured
on her work for the Smithsonian. Her exhibiting schedule has been
rigorous for 40 years working daily in multiple media.
After the birth of her first son she relocated to Southern California
where she resides in a small unincorporated town in Orange County and
the Hi Desert.
All of my movements over the surface of the work by hand, tool or
paintbrush is done whilst having a dialogue with the medium in
real-time.
 Whether created for a thermal body within a kiln or the poured
surface of bronzes, being carved from wood or forms cast in concrete,
paintings or tufftings, there are many mistakes within a work, all
accumulating with my decisions to try and coax it to completion. These
actions can be glorious with an unexpected success story or a complete
disaster. These mistakes are never in vain, they are always teachers
in the dialogue of building and that is where the art lies for me. My
works, like me, are not perfect, ever.