Barbara Walker (artist)

Barbara Walker (born 1964, Birmingham, UK) is a British artist who lives and works in Birmingham.[1] The art historian Eddie Chambers calls her "one of the most talented, productive and committed artists of her generation".[2] She is known for colossal figurative drawings and paintings, often drawn directly onto the walls of the gallery, that frequently explore themes of documentation and recording, and erasure.[3][4] Walker describes her work as social documentary, intended to address misunderstandings and stereotypes about the African-Caribbean community in Britain.[5]

Walker grew in a Jamaican family in Birmingham and graduated from the University of Central England, Birmingham in 1996.[6] Her work is part of private and public collections including the Arts Council Collection and the Usher Gallery.[7] She was selected to be included in the first Diaspora Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017.[6]

In 2017 Walker was awarded the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award, part of the Jerwood Drawing Prize.[8]

Selected exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Shock and Awe, curated by Lynda Morris and Craig Ashley, mac, Birmingham, 2016
  • Louder Than Words, Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University, 2006
  • Testimonies, Queen’s Hall, Northumberland, 2005
  • Private Face, EMACA, Nottingham, 2002

Group exhibitions

  • UNTITLED: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, New Art Exchange, 2017
  • The Meaning of Style: Black British Style, and the underlying political and social environment, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2010
  • Families, Oxford House, London, 2006
  • Birmingham Artsfest 06, 2006
  • True Stories, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2003
  • Intervention Project, Birmingham, 2002

References

  1. ↑ "Barbara Walker". Diaspora Artists. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Chambers, Eddie (2014). Black Artists in British Art: A History since the 1950s. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9780857736086.
  3. ↑ "Barbara Walker's large scale drawings remember Britain's Black servicemen and women | Arts Council England". www.artscouncil.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  4. ↑ Young, Graham (21 March 2014). "Birmingham artist is challenging stereotypes". birminghampost. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  5. ↑ "Boundary I | Arts Council Collection". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  6. 1 2 "Barbara Walker". ICF | International Curators Forum. 15 February 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-19.
  7. ↑ Barnfield, Stacey (6 May 2014). "UK's biggest loan collection of British art buys work by West Midlands artists". birminghampost. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 - Jerwood Visual Arts". Jerwood Visual Arts. Retrieved 2017-10-31.


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