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While The Gods Were Busy With Another Child

This deeply exploratory work is drawn exclusively from the eclectic personal and public archive, in multiple formats, of Andrea’s life until their lasting estrangement from

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[Image Description: In a dimly lit room, a white woman with blonde hair covers her face with her hands. Her eyes appear to be closed

After… After… (Access)

[Image description: The inside of a body, including a spine and other organs, appears on a laptop screen. A white person’s hand reaches toward the

Being Blue

In 2023, Fowler embarked on a residency at Prospect Cottage, the former home of artist, filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman (1942 – 1994). Jarman moved

The Eternal Return

The Eternal Return, the third instalment in the Dissolution trilogy, posits a now-struggling Sabu in 1952 as he supports his family by performing in Tom

The Fruit is There to be Eaten

‘The Fruit is There To Be Eaten’, the second instalment of the Dissolution Trilogy is based on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (1947).

Brown Queers

Brown Queers developed out of a need to create a docufiction of intersectional identity through multiple personas and styles in 2016, when the footage for

House of Women

In House of Women (2017), the artist recasts the role of a silent, dancing girl named Kanchi in the film Black Narcissus (1947). The coveted

Casting Kanchi

Casting Kanchi (2015) is a spatialised and expanded version of House of Women (2017) and a response to the casting of white actor Jean Simmons

For CA

A portrait of American poet CAConrad. Outtakes from the filming of I HOPE I’M LOUD WHEN I’M DEAD.

Portraits

Series of portraits originating on standard 8mm, 16mm, mini-dv tape and 35mm still photograph: Jim Mellors/Victoria Ashley, surrealist artist. Tony Gross, optician. Vivienne Westwood, fashion

Double Exposure

Double Exposure re-stages photographs of Pucill and her once partner, filmmaker Sandra Lahire that were made collaboratively shortly before Lahire’s death from anorexia in 2001.

Ungentle

Ungentle is a film based on a script by Huw Lemmey and co–directed with Onyeka Igwe, exploring the complicated relationship between British espionage and male

Teleny

‘Teleny’ is a partial adaptation of Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal, an anonymous pornographic novel published in 1893. Scenes of dialogue between the

White Adonis

White Adonis is a video which references James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, while using as its inspirational myth the scene of Adonis’ death. The video was

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