Luke Fowler: The Poor Stockinger, The Luddite Cropper And The Deluded Followers Of Joanna Southcott

Luke Fowler is an artist who works with film, sound, installation and photography.

This new film focuses on the work of Marxist historian Edward Palmer Thompson who, at the age of 25, was employed by the WEA (Workers’ Educational Association) in Yorkshire. He taught literature and history to adults who, historically, had been unable to access higher education, including miners, factory workers and the unemployed. E.P Thompson and his peers, Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart, were committed to the WEA values of delivering a ‘socially purposeful’ education and to the cause of adult education as an engine for cultural democracy.

Luke Fowler’s film explores the issues that were at stake for post war progressive educationalists and exposes an historical struggle that resonates within education today.

The film is screened in a loop from 10 am, last screening 7.10pm

The Artist will be talking about his work on the 7th November at the Arts Centre