Luke Fowler (born 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in

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. He studied printmaking at

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in Dundee. He creates cinematic

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that have often been linked to the British

Free Cinema Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s. The term referred to an absence of propagandised intent or deliberate box office appeal. Co-founded by Lindsay Anderson (but he later disdained the ...

movement of the 1950s. His para-

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s have explored counter cultural figures including Scottish psychiatrist

R. D. Laing Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illnessin particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment o ...

, English composer

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and Marxist-Historian E.P. Thompson. As well 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, George Clark and Peter Hutton Mark Fell, Lee Patterson, Toshiya Tsunoda and Richard Youngs. He collaborated with guitarist

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and film maker and curator Peter Todd on the live sound and film work ''The Room''.

Work

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

Exhibitions

*In 2009, retrospective exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. *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

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, for solo exhibition at

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, which showcased his new film exploring the life and work of Scottish psychiatrist

R.D. Laing Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illnessin particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of ...

Awards

*Shortlisted for the 2005

Beck's Futures Beck's Futures was a British art prize founded by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by Beck's beer given to contemporary artists. Prior to the establishment of the prize in 2000, Beck's had sponsored several exhibitions of con ...

prize in December 2004 *Derek Jarman Award in 2008 *2010

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Grants to Artists AwardLuke Fowler
. Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Retrieved on 2010-11-26.

References

External links

A portrait by spike art quarterly
*https://www.luke-fowler.com/
Conversation with Luke Fowler, 2019
Living people Alumni of the University of Dundee Scottish film directors 1978 births Scottish contemporary artists {{Scotland-artist-stub