Martin
Fowler

Martin Fowler PhD is an artist and lecturer in Fine Art specializing in drawing, painting, and stop frame animation. Prior to working at University of Cumbria, Fowler spent 7yrs as a full-time lecturer in the Scottish Prison Service – teaching predominantly life-sentence prisoners in Scotland's maximum security prisons.

Trained in Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art, Winchester School of Art and Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Fowler’s current series of anti-capitalist montages - inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s Epic Theatre, John Berger’s essays and the anti-establishment writings of Tom Leonard – seek to reframe the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to challenge ruling class ways of seeing, knowing and telling.