Her practice employs handcrafted costumes and props, from needle-felted forms to silicone prosthetics, as extensions of the body. These wearable objects bend and shift, investigating what adaptation looks like to survive. Influenced by years of swimming, observing aquatic life, and her queer experience, Lowdell personifies figures such as rats, cowboys, and fish, using familiar stereotypes to reframe her own narrative. Lowdell negotiates identity by using humour and absurdity to hold tension without becoming melancholic. Rather than dwelling on what has been endured, her work stays with the experience of being in the present after transformation, and learning how to live with, rather than against, what you are.