Luke Fowler

Luke Fowler (with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes)

Film installation references RD Laing

17 Feb 2012

‘We are actors in a play... whose plot we don’t know... and whose end I dare not imagine.’ These words, delivered by iconoclastic Glasgow-born ‘anti-psychiatrist’ RD Laing, not only form the opening gambit of ‘All Divided Selves’, Luke Fowler’s latest…

Scottish artist highlights from the 2011 British Art Show

Luke Fowler, Alasdair Gray, Nathaniel Mellors, Wolfgang Tillmans

28 Apr 2011

The last time the British Art Show toured to Glasgow was 1990, the year the Dear Green Place took on the mantle of European City of Culture and a watershed year for Scottish art. Twenty-one years on, Scottish visual artists make up a sizeable chunk of…

A Midsummer Day’s Dream brings Nurse With Wound to Glasgow's Tramway

16 Jun 2010

Former Monty Python Minister of Silly Walks John Cleese isn’t the first name that springs to mind when you think of Steven Stapleton’s veteran underground institution, Nurse With Wound. Without Cleese, though, NWW would probably never have existed.

Affordable Art: Luke Fowler

29 Apr 2010

Primarily known for his video works, which have won him the Derek Jarman Award and the Donald Dewar Prize, and have been broadcast on Channel 4. www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/9

What You See Is Where You’re At

19 Nov 2009

A new exhibition launches a year of celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, as Neil Cooper discovers

Luke Fowler: A Grammar For Listening

19 Nov 2009

Ever noticed the after-effect of sound rustling through a cityscape? What happens when images recede to the backdrop and sound takes on the leading role? Luke Fowler – in collaboration with Eric La Casa, Lee Patterson and Toshiya Tsunoda – creates field…

Visual Art hitlist

4 Nov 2009

Torsten Lauschmann: The Darker Ages Glasgow-based artist Lauschmann’s new body of work conjures up a cinematic experience that’s vivid and magical. Mary Mary, Glasgow, until Sat 21 Nov. David Austen: My love, I have been digging up my own…

Jarman Awards shortlist announced

14 Aug 2009

Visual art takes the spotlight this month, as the shortlist for the Jarman Awards is announced. This year’s short-listed artists are Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Simon Martin, Lindsay Seers and Stephen Sutcliffe.

The Hot 100 2008

11 Dec 2008

It’s been a helluva year. 2008 has been a time of significant global change, socially, politically and culturally, with Scotland no exception. So here, for your delectation, is The List’s pick of the 100 people, places and things that rocked our world…

Harry Smith Anthology Remixed

19 Jun 2008

When American song-collector, artist, ethno-musicologist and experimental filmmaker Harry Smith released The Anthology Of American Folk Music in 1952, it was a labour of love which had a huge influence on the 1950s so-called Folk revival. Without this…

Never Still

CCA, Glasgow, Fri 16 Feb

27 Feb 2007

FILM Never Still marked the first public art event sponsored by Map magazine, and brought together work by a host of respected international artists who primarily use film (video or digital) as their medium. The event highlighted some of the problems…