Luke Fowler

Glasgow International 2026 Spotlight 💡 A Sensation Never Yet Known, Luke Fowler @lukefowler78 Presented by GLOSS @gloss_cic ; Curated by Dominic Paterson A Sensation Never Yet Known is a new film work by Luke Fowler exploring the ongoing history of electronic music in Scotland. Fowler’s film combines footage of recent workshops led by Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound (GLOSS) with explorations of the practice of UK composer Janet Beat, an electronic and electro-acoustic music pioneer. In material sourced from an interview with Fowler, Janet vividly recalls her earliest memories of sound and her experiences of being doubly marginalised as a woman musician in a then-male-dominated field and a composer of electronic music at a time when it was viewed with suspicion by the musical establishment, including the Musicians’ Union. The project is informed by Fowler’s collaboration with GLOSS and with University of Glasgow musician-researchers Louise Harris and Kevin Leomo. Extending Fowler’s long-standing interest in how cultural and political figures of the 1960s and 1970s are remembered, A Sensation Never Yet Known also reflects his own practice as a musician and an artist-filmmaker. 📍 A Sensation Never Yet Known is at GLOSS, 5 Florence Street, 5 – 18 June, 22 - 24 June by appointment. Visit the link in our bio to see full dates and opening times. A Sensation Never Yet Known is supported by GLOSS and Outer Spaces @outerspaces.scotland . Additionally supported by Glasgow International with funds from the Scottish Government's Festival EXPO Fund Images: Courtesy the artist and The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd

SAVE Trongate 103 - stop the evictions - sign the petition. join the protest tomorrow. 12 pm to 2 pm at 229 George Street (Glasgow City Chambers). These are Glasgow cultural institutions that have been instrumental in the careers of many of the artists, curators, filmmakers, photographers, printmakers from the city, employ and train hundreds and have a massive social purpose outside the "art world". Their loss will be hugely felt and unrecoverable. I had a studio at the historic Mercat Building until our landlord -City Property- *who are at the heart of this debacle* evicted us (and all the other tenants) a few years ago in order to make more profit from the site (sound familiar?). City Property (who got the contract from GCC to “manage” their buildings) showed zero concern for their tenants or for the upkeep of the building : heating broke - they didn’t bother to fix it, lifts broke- same. There was constant leaks, water ingress, broken pipes and windows and the communal areas were foul and unsanitary - basically full of bird shit. I can’t say they were much better than slumlords . This is one of the last photos I took in the building..

CLOSING PERFORMANCE ANNOUNCEMENT On Sunday 3 May, to close the sixteenth edition of Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Tetsuya Maruyama joins forces with Luke Fowler for the UK premiere of Stone and Mountain, his spellbinding analogue rumination on contemporary mining activities in Brazil and beyond. As Tetsuya manipulates multiple 35mm slide projectors with his own roving aperture machine, Luke provides collaborative improvised sound, incorporating and responding to Tetsuya's field recordings. A one-off and world-first. Unfolding in Hawick across Labour Weekend, 30 April - 3 May, the sixteenth edition of the UK's festival of experimental film and artists' moving image will be an event of enduring connections. Full programme revealed soon! #Hawick #ScottishBorders #EmbraceTheStrange #AlchemyFilmFestival26

[LUKE FOWLER : ÉLOGE DE LA MARGE] Cette programmation est une invitation aux spectateurs du festival à entrer en complicité avec Luke Fowler, cinéaste musicien, qui refuse les carcans historiques esthétiques et narratifs. Une complicité sensible, presque organique avec laquelle il embrasse le monde, tout en se dévoilant lui-même. Si son œuvre mêle l’histoire contemporaine de la gauche et des mouvements underground et artistiques en Grande Bretagne, ses films morcelés semblent parcourus d’effets miroir où les éléments sonores et visuels impressionnistes et les figures de montage parlent autant de l’autre que de lui-même. Attaché au 16 mm, forme modeste et artisanale qui est celle de la disjonction de l’image et du son, Luke Fowler se joue des carcans narratifs pour privilégier le geste. Son cinéma est une expérience immersive procédant par vagues, accumulation mais aussi par bribes qui comme en suspens, persistent un moment sur la rétine. 📅 Rendez-vous lundi 23 mars à 19h30 au @cinema_arlequin pour une discussion avec Luke Fowler, animée par Jérôme Momcilovic (@jeromemomcilovic ),critique, membre du comité de sélection de Cinéma du réel. ➡️ Plus d'infos : cinemadureel.org/section/luke-fowler/ (link in bio) ____ [LUKE FOWLER: IN PRAISE OF MARGINS] This programme invites the festivalgoers to be involved with the work of Luke Fowler, filmmaker musician, who rejects historical, aesthetic, and narrative constraints, celebrating the margins. A sensitive, almost organic involvement with which he embraces the world, whilst also revealing himself. In fact, while his work intertwines the contemporary history of the Left with underground and artistic movements in Great Britain, his fragmented films seem to be pervaded by mirror effects where impressionistic sound and visual elements and the editing work speak as much about others as about himself. Fond of 16 mm – a modest and artisanal form that disconnects image and sound – Luc Fowler plays on narrative constraints to highlight gesture. His cinema is an immersive experience that unfolds in waves, by accumulation, but also in fragments, which as if suspended remain and persist for an instant on the retina. #cinémadureel

𝕹𝖊𝖜 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖐𝖘𝖍𝖔𝖕 𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖉🚨 13.02.26 Rebuilding a Patrick Cowley track from the ground up. Analogue synthesis, long sequences and collective play at GLOSS. Alongside Luke Fowler’s ongoing exhibition Patrick at @themoderninstitute . This workshop will be led by artist, musician and filmmaker, @lukefowler78 and musician and GLOSS director, @lugas_europ As always - spaces are limited so book now! Tickets available from the link in our bio.

So proud of my mum who has just been given an award for service to sociology by the British Sociological Association. She will receive it in Manchester in April at the Annual conference. Where they will show my tribute to her “mums cards” . True to form and her life-long Marxist politics her acceptance speech didn’t mince words either- On receiving the award, Professor Fowler said, “I am deeply honoured by this award. But I would like to take this opportunity to refer to the perils that menace sociology at present. I was born in 1943: our generation enjoyed, through the 1960s and early 70s, a period of unprecedented access to material necessities and scholarships for both middle-class and even most working-class people. Those conditions have long gone; instead, we see the rise of unemployment and of militarism. In a world as dangerous as the present, in which the threat of fascism comes even from our allies, we must anticipate and practice acts of solidarity and resistance. I see sociology as particularly vulnerable for early targeting by universities. In the months to come, we need to remain ultra-vigilant so as to stand up not just for our discipline, but also for racism and ethnicity studies, for feminist, social-democratic and Marxist thought more broadly, for exiled academics and immigrants, and for the rejection of redundancies.”

tonight 6-8pm at Airds Lane. with Marco Giordino all welcome. Then Tomorrow 7pm TATE Britain with @sarahwoodworld

January clear out. Letting go of some film/recording gear that I’ve used and loved over the years. PM rather than comment if interested. shipping possible but would prefer collection in Glasgow. 1. Recording Studio Design 12 into 2 - 70s English fully balanced pre-soundcraft mixer- good for dub/analogue mixing - Martin Hannett used this model - 3 channels marked with blue dots need attention - needs a good clean has crackly pots - 200 2. MACKIE CR 1604 - 150 - Classic 90s house/techno mixer - warm and crunchy - made in USA- different pre-amp from modern VLZ designs 3. AUDIX wired to DIN mic+speaker - passive - offers? 4. COOKE KINETAL 12.5mm/f1.8 - ARRI S lens (can be used on Bolex with adapter) - offers? 5. KLANGBAU Koeln Custom 1 off digital Spring Reverb with 1/4”Jacks - 80 6. 7. MMI MODULAR 295 - based on Buchla 295 10ch comb filter - 170 7. Bolex Pizar 26mm 1.9lens AR - 70 - untested 8. TEAC Model 1 - lovely mixer for saturation/summing - 150 - serviced 9. 80’s Maplin Realistic Electronic Reverb (Classic BBD delay) - SOLD 10. Maplin Realistic Stereo VU Disco Mixer - 40 11. TASCAM PE-20 - 200 - rare 4 channel parametric EQ - 150 - very useful/fully analogue EQ 12. 13. BOSS SX700 - SOLD- rare in UK - as used by pansonic - battery will need replacing - rusty ass- works fine 13. OG 70’s Melodica - 20 - 1 or 2 dodgy notes - 14. Princeton applied research lock in amp - 200 - rare - test equipment - check YouTube for studio uses - same as EG&G - Stockhausen/pansonic 15. WAVETEK model 111 - 80 - sounded great but no sound 16. TEAC 2A MIXER - SOLD- serviced - similar to Model 1 but with great EQ’s 17. Chorus,Phaser Pedals - offers? 18. BOSS superoverdrive/Dan Electro overdrive pedal - offers? 19. Custom bass saturation pedal - 100

Luke Fowler @lukefowler78 is an artist, filmmaker, and musician based in Glasgow. His work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary filmmaking, and has often been compared to the British Free Cinema of the 1950s. Working with archival footage, photography and sound, Fowler’s filmic montages create portraits of intriguing, counter cultural figures, including Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing and English composer Cornelius Cardew. In October, e-flux Screening Room presented “Weaving Memory,” a program of four recent films by Luke Fowler: On Weaving (2025, with Corin Sworn), N’importe Quoi (for Brunhild) (2023), N’importe Quoi (Extérieur – Jour) (2024), and Patrick (2020).   The screening was followed by a conversation between the artist, Lukas Brasiskis @@lukasbrasiskis , and the audience. The transcript of this conversation was edited for the present publication. Read it at e-flux Film Notes. Link in bio. Image: Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn, On Weaving (still), 2025. Courtesy of Luke Fowler, Corin Sworn, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival.

E-Flux Just Published a conversation between myself and Lukas Brasiskis that happened at their NYC screening space in October /notes and also announcing an upcoming screening / talk at Tate Britain with Sarah Woods and curator Isabel Tovey 30/1/2026 .uk/whats-on/tate-britain/deep-blue-love Thanks @lukasbrasiskis and @efluxscreeningroom images from On Weaving by Corin Sworn and Luke Fowler and Prospect by Sarah Woods

X-PS - debut show at GLOSS @gloss_cic last weekend. X-PS is a project using shortwave radio, found sounds and live percussion by Paul Thomson and Luke Fowler. Hoping to tour this project in 2026/27 (if your a booking agent/book shows get in touch!). We'll release our debut record - hopefully in 2026. Photo of me by @alandimmick thanks to him also for the loan of aerials/radio

Some amazing shots of Amor by @itslaurameek from last weeks show at Old Hairdressers with amazing guests @pg_lolo Peter Gordon (saxophone), @mortonvikki Victoria Morton (recorders, voice) Nick Withers (congo) and @suzi_libre Suzi Cook (flute, voice). What will 2026 hold?