Julian Rowe

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**Julian Rowe**
Personal Info
Birth	May 25, 1985, Victoria
Recruited from	Old Carey/Oakleigh U18
Playing Career¹
Debut	Round 14, July 3, 2004, Collingwood vs. Hawthorn, at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Team(s)	Collingwood (2004-2006) 26 Games, 8 Goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2006 season
Career Highlights

Julian Rowe (born May 25, 1985) is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.

From Old Carey, the youngster was considered a 'surprise pick' in the 2003 National Draft by Collingwood coach Mick Malthouse because Rowe was picked up at No. 60 overall. He made his senior debut mid-season and showed potential of becoming a long-term midfielder/half-forward, having a good debut season, playing 8 games. In 2005 he started with a string of games, becoming a regular, before being dropped despite lifting his form. He managed only 2 games in 2006 and was delisted at the end of the season.

[edit] Outside Football

In his work outside football, Rowe "seeks an engagement with landscape and place - not with nature or topography but with the way that places operate as an archive of human activity and memory. The paradigm is the buried object, the processes by which the traces of human presence are successively covered up, and the possibilities of what might exist under the ground, waiting to be found as layer by layer is uncovered". He exploits minimal form and repetition as a way of achieving visual complexity. Some of the forms Rowe uses resemble rusted and broken machine parts, others are strange combinations of the mechanical and the organic - material retrieved from the land, but not of it. Rowe also explore questions of scale and representation through works in which landscape is miniaturised and replicated. Besides his own work Rowe collaborates with fellow artist Dawn Badland as the partnership Ouroboros. Their joint projects enables them to work outside their respective individual practices and Ouroboros has developed a creative personality of its own.