House, 2025-2026
This body of work extends Crowle’s ongoing interest in the house as figure, icon, and object. The works consider the architectural form of the pitched-roof house not simply as a representation of shelter, but as a cultural construct shaped by systems of land use, resource extraction, and infrastructure. References to forestry, construction, and the management of land situate the house within broader relationships between architecture and the landscape from which it is materially derived.
Paintings examine the form through shifts in proportion, surface, and material behaviour. Large fields of colour or substrate establish the ground, while fluid paint descends from the roofline, at times exceeding the boundaries of the structure. Gravity becomes an active participant in the composition, filling the house volume from above and reinforcing the structural logic of the form while allowing the material to move beyond it.
House A-1.4, Tower beach stairs, 2025
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
31 × 46.5 in (78.7 × 118.1 cm)
House A-2.1, The beach on Saturday, 2025
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
31 × 48.5 in (78.7 × 123.2 cm)
House A-2.3, Dog park, 2025
Acrylic, enamel, varnish on plywood support
31 × 46.5 in (78.7 × 118.1 cm)
House A-1.3, Spanish Banks, 2025
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
31 × 48.5 in (78.7 × 123.2 cm)
House A-1.3, Pending Visit, 2025
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
31 × 48.5 in (78.7 × 123.2 cm)
House A-2.2, Marine mechanic assistant, 2025
Acrylic and enamel on plywood support
31 × 46.5 in (78.7 × 118.1 cm)
Sculptural works extend these concerns into space, considering scale, duplication, and the spatial intervals between objects. The distance between forms becomes as significant as the forms themselves, suggesting thresholds, pathways, and the ambiguous edges between private property and shared civic space. These interstitial zones evoke property lines, passages between interior and exterior conditions, and the social choreography that unfolds where individual shelter meets collective life.
Across the work, the house appears as both protective interior and public sign—an enduring architectural symbol that reflects contemporary conditions of domestic life. In this way the works engage with broader questions surrounding the global state of domestic architecture and its influence on cultural behaviour, asking how ideas of home, ownership, and belonging continue to be shaped by the environments and infrastructures that surround them.
“I want to look at the house as an enduring figure of shelter in landscape and domestic activity, framed through experiences, interpersonal dynamics, and cultural practices that define specific places as homes.”
Image:
House Volume Prototype, (Charlie)
Cast Plywood Assembly, Steel Mounting ref. 2025
Dim. varriable
House, Gold 1.A, 2025
Inkjet on Archival Paper
20 × 30 inches (50.8 × 76.2 cm)
House, Gold 1.B, 2025
Inkjet on Archival Paper
20 × 30 inches (50.8 × 76.2 cm)
Edition of 30
Image:
House Volume Prototype, Depth
Plywood Assembly, Geometry variations based on prototype paintings (scale) 2025