Lowndes is Director of Kunsthalle Cromer and previously contributed to the Public Programme of the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia.
Lowndes's research focusses upon artist-led projects, interdisciplinary and performance-related practice and contemporary art.
Lowndes has contributed to Frieze, Art on Paper, Untitled, MAP, 2HB, Spike Art Quarterly and Afterall and to catalogues for international institutions, including Richard Wright (2009), Robert Rauschenberg: Botanical Vaudeville (2011) and Dieter Roth: Diaries (2012).
[citation needed] Her curatorial projects include "Three Blows", a weekend of experimental acoustic performance by visual artists and musicians (2008),[1] the symposium Subject in Process: Feminism and Art (2009) the international group exhibition Votive at CCA Glasgow (2009) and the all-women performance event Urlibido (Glasgow International 2010).
Her curatorial projects include the sculpture park "Dialogue of Hands" (Glasgow International, 2012) and Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII (Mackintosh Museum, 2012) and she was also the editor of art magazine The Burning Sand (2013–2016).