Luke Fowler

Born:
1978
Residence:
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • The widely discussed transformation of the former power station GES-2 into a new museum complex for the V-A-C Foundation was suspended for the short but ambitious exhibition-cum-music festival “Geometry of Now.”

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  • An exhibition titled 'MOVED”, bringing together the works of 20 artists working on a varied range of mediums will be on view at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo from October 21 through November 19, 2016.

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  • The Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, will mark its change of address with an exhibition titled 'MOVED', on view from October 21, the day of the inauguration of the new gallery, to November 19, 2016.

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  • Newcomers to James Richards’s work might consider his films as sphinxes wrapped in enigmas.

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  • A woman who once based a work around Star Wars character Jabba the Hutt is one of the four artists shortlisted for this year's £25,000 Turner Prize.

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  • “Soundings: A Contemporary Score,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, opens with American artist, Tristan Perich’s Microtonal

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  • One of contemporary art's most prestigious awards is announced later on today, and members of the Turner Prize jury must decide between the first performance artist to be nominated, two filmmakers and the creator of obsessively detailed drawings.

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  • Drawings of human excrement having sex in public have gone on show at Tate Britain - alongside performances by a bearded female artist who lives

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  • Karla Black’s Story of a Sensible Length, 2014 at the Scottish National Gallery, ‘a Tiepolo dream made real’. Photograph: Edinburgh art festival

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  • “Soundings: A Contemporary Score,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, opens with American artist, Tristan Perich’s Microtonal

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  • One of contemporary art's most prestigious awards is announced later on today, and members of the Turner Prize jury must decide between the first performance artist to be nominated, two filmmakers and the creator of obsessively detailed drawings.

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  • Drawings of human excrement having sex in public have gone on show at Tate Britain - alongside performances by a bearded female artist who lives

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  • Paul Noble, the Northumberland artist who shaped a phallic spin on Henry Moore sculptures while filling London's Gagosian Gallery with a dystopian

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  • As part of the series of exhibitions that investigates the idea of avant-garde, the exhibition Deep Cuts takes a look at music and sound as forms of culture or counterculture intrinsic to different processes of modernization.

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  • A partnership between Wolverhampton Art Gallery and The Hepworth, Wakefield, has won the Contemporary Art Society's Annual Award for Museums Commission

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  • Her work has drawn on cultural references from Paradise Lost to Jabba the Hutt, and she lives and works in a south London

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  • Elizabeth Price is by some distance the least well known of the four artists shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize but the video installation

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  • The Turner Prize is one of art’s most prestigious prizes, with former winners including Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing and Chris Ofili.

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  • A man who has spent 15 years drawing an imaginary city whose residents are human excrement who have sex in public, and a woman who changed her name

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  • THERE are several things noteworthy about performance artist Spartacus Chetwynd: she renamed herself after the gladiator partly to annoy people, she

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  • There are several things noteworthy about performance artist Spartacus Chetwynd: she renamed herself after the gladiator partly to annoy people

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  • Remember the glory days of Turner Prize high outrage? The dead shark, the lights-going-on-and-off: when each year’s shortlist revealed some

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  • The 2012 nominees for Britain’s foremost art prize are Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price. Chetwynd changed her

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  • There is a difference between simple and elementary, and while he occasionally lands on the right side, Luke Fowler’s playing with RD Laing̵

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  • Goodness, October is a hard month to get excited about. Year after year, it brings the unfailing triple whammy of the clocks going back, a tax return

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  • A performance artist who changed her name to Spartacus, lives in a nudist colony and had the audience voting in a five-hour play last year is one of four nominees for the Turner Prize, the U.K.’s top contemporary-art award.

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  • The Turner Prize, the prestigious award given to a British artist under 50 who put on the best exhibition in the last year, announced its short list.

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  • I never thought I’d find myself writing these words: The Turner Prize exhibition of 2012 at Tate Britain is actually entertaining.

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  • The Turner Prize 2012 exhibition features work by the four shortlisted artists: Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price.

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  • If omnipresence can be considered fleeting, American provocateur Bruce Nauman might have achieved reverence with a light touch.

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BIOGRAPHY

Luke Fowler was born in 1978 in Glasgow, Scotland, where he continues to live and work. Fowler is an artist filmmaker and a musician. He is a member of the bands Rude Pravo and Lied Music, and also runs SHADAZZ, a multimedia platform for creative collaborations. Fowler’s meticulously researched portraits of vanguard thinkers and counter-cultural figures often explore the limits of documentary filmmaking, innovatively combining new and archival footage, interviews and photography with a densely layered soundtrack. His project “Pilgrimage from Scattered Points” (2006) revolved around English composer Cornelius Cardew, responsible for the collaborative musical ensemble the Scratch Orchestra. Active from 1968 to 1973, this utopian endeavor gradually fell apart, unable to reconcile the schism between individual artistic expression and the group’s democratic mission to bring music to the masses.

Luke Fowler has recently presented solo exhibitions at The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow (2009), The Serpentine Gallery, London (2009), CAC Bretigny, France (2009), X Initiative, New York (2009), Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich (2008). His work has also been shown as part of “'Younger than Jesus” at New Museum, New York (2009), “Time Crevasse”, the 3rd Yokohama Triennale (2008), the “EAST International” at Norwich Gallery, Norwich (2007), Prague Biennale 3 (2007), the 3rd Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (2006) and Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (2002). He has received the 1st Jarman Award for Artist-Filmmakers at Serpentine Gallery, London (2008) and was short-listed for the Beck’s Futures award, presented at the ICA – Institute for Contemporary Art, London (2005).

Luke Fowler is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow.


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