Luke Fowler

Luke Fowler (born 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow.^[1] He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design^[2] in Dundee. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s.^[3] His para-documentary films have explored counter cultural figures including Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing,^[4] English composer Cornelius Cardew^[5] and Marxist-Historian E. P. Thompson. As well as portraits of musicians and composers he has also made films and installations that deal with the nature of sound itself. Luke Fowler has worked with a number of collaborators including Eric La Casa,^[6] George Clark and Peter Hutton, ^[7] Mark Fell,^[8] Lee Patterson,^[9] Toshiya Tsunoda,^[10] and Richard Youngs.^[11] He collaborated with guitarist Keith Rowe and film maker and curator Peter Todd on the live sound and film work The Room.^[12]

Luke Fowler photographed in 2015 by Alan Dimmick

Work

Luke Fowler's work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary film-making ^[13] with an emphasis on sound, marginalised communities and radical voices.

Exhibitions

• In 2009, retrospective exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.^[14]
• In 2010 in Rencontres d'Arles festival (France).
• In 2011, 'British Art Show 7' at the Hayward Gallery, London.
• In 2012, he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, for solo exhibition at Inverleith House in Edinburgh,^[15] which showcased his new film exploring the life and work of Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing.^[3]

Awards

• Shortlisted for the 2005 Beck's Futures prize in December 2004^[16]
• Derek Jarman Award in 2008^[17]
• 2010 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award^[18]