The Hepworth Wakefield presents a major new film commission by 2012 Turner Prize nominee Luke Fowler. Based on research and material from archives in the North of England, the film will focus on the work of the radical socialists Edward Palmer-Thompson, Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart whose influential writing were honed in northern working class communities.
Luke Fowler was born in Glasgow in 1978. 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 Luke Fowler with Toshiya Tsunoda and John Haynes, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2012) for which he has been nominated for the 2012 Turner Prize; ‘All Divided Selves’, CCS Bard Galleries, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; ‘Ridges on the Horizontal Plane’, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2011); Serpentine Gallery, London; ‘A Grammar For Listening’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow; and ‘Warriors’, X Initiative, New York (all 2009). He participated in ‘Cornelius Cardew and the Freedom of Listening’, CAC Bretigny; ‘British Art Show 7: In The Days Of The Comet’, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham and The Hayward Gallery, London; ‘Radical Nature’, Barbican Art Gallery, London; ‘The Associates’, DCA, Dundee; ‘What You See is Where You’re At’, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; and ‘Younger than Jesus’, New Museum, New York (all 2009). In 2008 he received the inaugural Derek Jarman Award.
On view SAT 23 JUNE 2012 – SUN 14 OCTOBER 2012
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