b. 1978, Glasgow; lives and works in Glasgow, U.K.

Luke Fowler has a distinctly multimedia practice, both in its making and in its presentation. But it is analogue filmmaking that is at the core of his work, and he understands this technology not simply as a tool of execution but an instrument for the construction of narrative and meaning. He has said that he is ‘interested in the manifold ways that experimental filmmakers like Derek Jarman used the basic features of analogue film – editing in camera, shooting with different film speeds, making use of available light and collaborators to create films that were, and still are, psychically and politically charged.’Filmmaking in this sense becomes a social process for Fowler and he too understands the importance of collaboration with other artists, musicians and writers in his work. Frequently investigating the social conditions of our own time, he is interested in the rules, conventions and disciplinary practices that underpin society, and how such governing principles lead to social inequity. He is able to use film to observe these consequences and uncover the complexities of a system that marginalizes a minority, forcing them to live on its edges. By incorporating sound, photography and installation as a mode of address, Luke Fowler questions the efficacy of conventional documentary filmmaking. He is concerned with finding new ways to meaningfully engage with his subjects, whether they are people, places or archival materials.

Recent solo exhibitions include; A Sensation Never Yet Known, GLOSS (Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound), Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art (2026); Luke Fowler & Ryoko Akama: ELEC CELE, Westwerk Galerie, Hamburg (2025); Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait, The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness (2024); PATRICK, STUK, Leuven (2022); From Here a Home Was Imagined, CCA, Glasgow (2021); A Certain Predilection for Things Out of the Ordinary, Museo Reina Sofi­a, Madrid (2021) and Passages, The Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: Digging In Another Time: Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow (2024); MAB 24 Cinema Programme, HERITAGE MALTA, Malta (2024); N'Importe Quoi (for Brunhild) and other works by Luke Fowler with Brunhild Ferrari and Cerith Wyn Evans’, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2023); Luke Fowler (SCOT) & Kasper Akhøj (DK), Stereo Exchange, Frederiksberg (2023); Citational Choices, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo (2022); Miraculous Noise, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg (2021) and Cybernetics of the Poor: Tutorials, Exercises and Scores, TABAKALERA - International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián (2020)

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