Australian photographer Bruce Cowell exhibited in March/April 2020 at Marziart Internationale Gallery in Hamburg, Germany, and is a featured artist in the arts magazine Spotlight - Contemporary Art Magazine, released in March 2020.
Cowell was a finalist in the online art competition by Circle-Arts.com with Expo-Arts New York and is presented as a featured artist on the Circle Foundation for the Arts website. In 2020, he also exhibited in New York within the WWA Pavilion. His photography has been featured in the publication Who's Who in Visual Art, published in Leipzig, Germany, and in the German publication International Kunst Heute (International Art Today). Additionally, his work appears in the WeContemporary Art Catalogue published by Musa International Art Space, Palermo, Italy, and has been displayed at Blank Wall Gallery in Athens, Greece.
Cowell was awarded second prize in the ArtRoom Gallery "Consequences of Light" photographic competition in Rome, Italy, and second prize in the Hasselblad Masters of Photography Competition. His image Beth Plays the Clowns received an Honorable Mention in the Circle Foundation Artist of the Year Awards 2019 in Lyon, France.
In 1988, Cowell was commissioned to produce images for projection onto the giant sun sails at World Expo 1988 in Brisbane, Australia. He is the photographer for the book Wild Places of Greater Brisbane, which was a No. 1 bestseller in Queensland for twelve straight weeks. He also served as the senior photographer for books including Wild Guide to Moreton Bay, Wild Plants of Greater Brisbane, Discovery Guide to Outback Queensland, Wildlife of Greater Brisbane, and Kangaroos of Queensland. Additionally, he was Senior Photographer and Picture Editor for Wildlife Australia magazine and the coordinator and judge for the Australian Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Cowell was the principal photographer in the Outback Queensland photographic exhibition, which toured Queensland.
Reviews of Bruce Cowell's work have appeared in the online magazines Art InView, Art World Post, and Art Tour Magazine (2024). In 2023, Cowell was chosen as one of fifty artists to receive the Persona Art Honours by Contemporary Art Station, Barcelona, and was featured in the publication Biographies, Contemporary Art, published by La Notizia, Italy.
