Canadian-born artist Simone Rowat graduated this year from BA Fine Art at the Slade. Although born in Canada Rowat spent most of her teenage years growing up in Vienna (Austria) where she remembers echoes of the forests, eerie aurora borealis, endless mountains and epic skies of her childhood. Working seamlessly across media (film, painting, installation and photography), Rowat weaves the memories of landscapes from her childhood with varied cultural references and recent experiences. The imagery of Werner Herzog, Helen Chadwick, David Attenborough, Casper David Fredrich and Pippilotti Rist all take part in the sublime layers of imagery shaping Rowat’s idiosyncratic landscapes. Simone Rowat will be beginning an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art this coming autumn.