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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]

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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

Awards

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  2. Scottish Arts Council - Exeptional[sic] young Scots given a financial boost Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine . Scottisharts.org.uk (2010-07-01). Retrieved on 2010-11-26.
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  7. "The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott". LUX. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  8. "To The Editor Of Amateur Photographer". LUX. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  9. "A Grammar For Listening - Part 1". LUX. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  10. "A Grammar For Listening - Part 3". LUX. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  11. "Shop - Research Music - The Modern Institute". www.themoderninstitute.com. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  12. "About Luke Fowler - The Modern Institute". www.themoderninstitute.com. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  13. "Luke Fowler". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
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