22 Jul 2012
Pilgrimage from Scattered Points (2006) and the early work The Way Out (2003) by our current artist in residence Luke Fowler, made in collaboration with Kosten Koper, explore the profiles of key figures in experimental and underground music. Scratch Orchestra composer Cornelius Cardew and post-punk musician Xentos Jones are featured in these two intimate works.
Luke Fowler (b. 1978, Glasgow) studied Printmaking at Dundee Art School. His films have been presented widely, recent screenings include, ICA London, Glasgow Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival (2012), and Anthology, New York (2011). Recent solo exhibitions include The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the deluded followers of Joanna Southcott, The Hepworth, Wakefield (made in association with Contemporary Art Society, Film and Video Umbrella and Wolverhampton Art Gallery) and Luke Fowler with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2012) for which he has been nominated for the 2012 Turner Prize. In 2008 he received the inaugural Derek Jarman Award.