Kashmir Rouw is a Margaret River artist and stonemason hailing from a long line of artists. His iconic sculptures grace the coastline from Gnarabup to Mainbreak and are dotted around the Margaret River region.
His ancestor Peter Rouw (1771-1852) was a London based sculptor, specialising in marble bas relief church monuments and wax miniature portraiture, and was a chief modeler of cameos and gems to the Prince Regent of the Royal Family of England. His work was widely commissioned to other royal bloodlines and can be seen in churches and cathedrals throughout Europe.
Kashmir’s parents are also both artists – his mother a ceramicist and father a stonemason and landscaper.
His work includes public art sculptures, photography, painting and fabric design. He sculpts from a workshop in the light industrial area and paints and designs fabric from his home studio and gallery in Margaret River.
Kashmir’s figurative and abstract works play with man’s interconnection with nature – carved stone faces pulled from ancient, weathered limestone, bushfire-rescued tree sculptures evoking rebirth, portal-like monuments, and hanging and stacked modulated free standing sculptures. Stone and cement pots and vessels reflect these creative principles on a smaller scale. His paintings and t-shirt fabric design similarly draw inspiration from the local landscape and are characterised by bold hues and soft fluid brushstrokes, botanical imprints and geometric principles.
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