Julian Walker

Visual artist, London
Print, sculpture, collage, jewellery

Most works are for sale. Please enquire using [email protected]

Next show
Microbrutalism
Wanstead Library, London E11
7 - 26 April 2025
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Recent show:
Colour, Texture, Light
New 2-colour etchings
Compassionate Funerals, 3-5 Hermon Hill,
Wanstead, E11 2AW
3 - 28 March 2025

Please note
This site is for studio work - for work engaging with heritage, museums and historical objects and sites go to

Wearable -
small works in bone, silver, concrete

Moderno-primitivist work using forms and materials based on current work
Bone, wood, silver, concrete, with long pins and stoppers, for lapels, hats, etc
Prices range from £40 to £65

Earstuds #1, bone, concrete, silver, 1 x 1 cm
£45 + £3.50 postage (UK only)

Pin brooch #1, bone, concrete, silver, 3 x 2.5 cm
£40 + £3.50 postage (UK only)

Pin brooch #3, bone, concrete, silver, 3 x 2.5 cm
£40 + £3.50 postage (UK only)

Pin brooch #5, bone, concrete, silver, 5 x 2.5 cm
£40 + £3.50 postage (UK only)

Pin brooch #6, bone, concrete, silver, 5 x 2.5 cm
£40 + £3.50 postage (UK only)

Brutalist Sculpture

Work in brutalist overlapping forms, in wood, concrete, copper, pewter, and mixtures of these.

Two concrete forms with horizontal stripes

8 cm tall

Oak & concrete tower

Hardwood & concrete, 11cm tall

Sandstone brutalist form

Sandstone, 6 cm tall

Silver & black tower

Hardwood & silver, 5 cm tall

Square pewter form with resin

Cast pewter and resin, 6 x 6 x 6 cm

Concrete form, red, ochre

Cast, carved and painted concrete, 8 x 7 x 6cm

Small form, orange, yellow

Cast and carved concrete, paint, 6 x 6 x 6 cm

Forms in soapstone and resin

Form 1, (plain) 5cm high
Form 2, (2 insets) 6cm high
Form 3, (4 dots) 6 cm high
Carved and oiled soapstone, white resin

Two-part form, red black yellow

Cast and carved concrete, paint, 8 x 5 x 8 cm

Tall Form

Cast, carved and painted concrete, yellow / ochre / black, 8 x 5 x 5cm

Small tagua form with black

Tagua, ink, 45 x 25 x 25mm

Hardwood & bone form

Wenge, bone, wax, 14 x 6 x 6cm

Small tagua form

Tagua, 40 x 25 x 25mm

Microbrutalist form, squat

Cast, carved and painted concrete, 5 x 5 x 5cm

Wood and bone form

Wenge, bone, 5x5x5 cm

Tower, grit

Millstone grit, 12cm high (sold)

Wood and pewter form

Wenge, pewter, 5x5x5 cm

Small brutalist form

Sandstone, 3cm high

Yellow/grey form

Air-dry clay, pigment, 5x5x5 cm (sold)

Wenge Tower

Wenge (hardwood), about 12cm high.

Tower 9

Pewter, 4" high (sold)

Columns

Wenge (hardwood), some with bone or boxwood inlay, about 6" high.

Leaning Column 1

Concrete, 6" high (sold)

Towers 1, 2, 3

Pewter, about 1.5" high, with various treatments.

Concrete and Pewter form 2

Concrete, with cast-in pewter, about 3" high. (sold)

Copper plate 2

Etched copper plate, various sizes, from 2" square.
This one 35 x 20cm

More microbrutalist works, in pewter, boxwood and other hardwoods (iroko, wenge, oak), concrete, and copper, and mixes of these.

Microbrutalism 24/1a

Cast and carved concrete, 8cm tall

Three Microbrutalist forms

Pewter, boxwood, wenge. Max height 7.5cm

Microbrutalism tall form

Cast, carved and painted concrete, 8cm tall

Microbutalist netsuke 24/2a

Wenge, 3.3cm high

Microbrutalism 24/2e

Cast and carved concrete, 4cm tall

Microbutalist netsuke 24/2f b

Oak, pewter, resin, 8cm high

Objects of Desire, Curiosity and Concern

Ranging from carved tablets to possible antiquities, some drawn from historical artefacts & incidents

5 Pieces For A Game

Engraved bone & ink, each about 2.3cm square, 2mm thick

Pregnacare Venus

Carved folic acid tablet

Carved stone ball

About 7 cm diameter, sandstone. Based on Pictish carved stone balls.

Carved stone ball

About 7 cm diameter, sandstone. Based on Pictish carved stone balls.

Sir Thomas Browne's Ostrich

Parts of Sir Thomas Browne's 17th century description of an ostrich, engraved onto an ostrich egg

Neoneolithic figure 1

6 cm, sandstone. Drawn from the 'Wife of Westray' figure, Orkney, neolithic.

Neoneolithic figure 2

6.5 cm, sandstone. Drawn from the 'Wife of Westray' figure, Orkney, neolithic.

Neoneolithic figure 3

12 cm, sandstone.

Pieces for Another Game

Bone, sandstone and ebony, each 45 x 20 x 2mm

More pieces for another game

Bone, sandstone, each 45 x 20 x 2mm

Small Wall 1

Bone, sandstone, 45 x 22 x 5mm

Pieces for a Different Game

Bone, silver, copper, bronze, mother of pearl, gut cord, pigment, printed paper, lichen, cotton.

Bone Coffer 1

Bone, birchbark, 45 x 20 x 20mm

10 Pieces from a Different Game,
and 8 Pieces from Another Game

Bovine bone and pigment, each 2.5 x 9 cm .
Bone, silver, copper, bronze, paint, cotton, pigment, pva, ink.

As if

Satin stitch silk on linen, 2012

Dark Harbour

A long project, exploring a basic structural composition derived from the memory of a lost picture, taken through print, stitch, drawing, overprinted and overdrawn photographs, and sculpture in wood, pewter and concrete

The Lighthouse

Hardwood, about 6' high

Eastern Approaches

Reduction lino print

The Communications Blanket

Wool, steel & copper

The Abandoned Gasworks

Two-colour etching

The Fourth Bollard

Wenge (hardwood)

The Whelk Stall

Wood engraving, very small

The Great Bollard

Oak

Dark Harbour postcard

Postcard with stencil print

Rowing the Boats

Relief print with stencil print

Lost, at Sea

Etched found half-tone plate

Pewter cast from embossed wood - DH

cast pewter on steel rod

Prints

Etching, wood engraving, woodcut, linocut

45
89
532

Etching 5x5 cm
Etchings 7x7 cm

32
64
34

Etching 5 x 5cm

24

Etching 5cm sq

461
89
17

Etching 5 x 5, 7 x 7, 5 x 5 cm

67

Etching 7 x 6 cm

Five Poplars

Five Poplars, 2024, linocut, 15.5 x 9.5 cm

Tree from the studio, Feb 24

Linocut, 15 x 10cm

Dark Harbour, The Lock Gates

Wood engraving, 2022, c 5 x 2 cm

A Village

Wood engraving, 2 x 2 cm

City 1

Drypoint 2020, c 2.5 x 2 cm

City Stressed 3

Wood engraving, 2020, c 6 x 3 cm
Selectors’ Highlight, 5th International Biennial of Miniature Prints,
Laguna Paiva, Argentina

Column 2

Etching 2018, c 10 x 6 cm

Column 3

Etching, 2018, c 10 x 8cm

Dark Harbour, Guide for Tourists

Wood engraving, 2020, c 8 x 8 cm

City Stressed 4 (Matters of Concern)

Wood engraving, 2020, c 10 x 4cm

Spread 2

Etching, 2019, c 13 x 10 cm

The This and The That

Relief Print, 2022, c 30 x 15cm, made for Homage à Trois, Catalonia

Type story

Engraving on type metal, 2018, c 2.5 x 2.5 cm

Hole Print 1

Relief & Intaglio Print, 2022, c 30 x 30cm

Hole Print 2

Relief & Intaglio print, 2022, c 30 x 30cm

Given

Relief Print, 2024, c 10 x 8cm

The Entire Theatre of the World

Micro-theatres constructed mainly from postage stamps

Flight By Water

Christmas Pantomime

Oh You Star

Somerset Levels

and Far Away

sold

No Forwarding Address

Waiting for the Mail

Swan Lake

.The Entire Theatre of the World works are £80 each framed, £60 unframed (plus postage).Most works shown above are for sale, prices from £50 to £500. Contact me.

Contact

Valentines Mansion
Emerson Road, Ilford
London IG1 4XA
[email protected]
See link below to StuffLikeThat books

Julian Walker trained at the City of London Polytechnic (formerly ‘The Cass’), where he was awarded the Owen Rowley Memorial Prize, and Central St Martins College of Art, and was selected for the New Contemporaries at the Liverpool Biennial in 1999. He was the first artist in residence at The Natural History Museum, in 1996, and was commissioned to make work for Wellcome Collection and the Embroiderers’ Guild in 2003, Norwich Castle in 2005, the EV&A Biennial Limerick in 2006, and the Millennium Square Greenwich in 2008. Since then he has exhibited with Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, the Contemporary Applied Art Gallery, and the National Trust. His work is in public collections including Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Norwich Castle Museum and the National Library of Catalonia.He works with print, stitch, sculpture, collage, and performance. Recently his work has featured in exhibitions in Russia, Ukraine, Catalonia, Mexico, Amsterdam, Kolkata, Norwich, Argentina, Berlin, Albania, with awards in Argentina and Catalonia; and in his solo show ‘Dark Harbour, The Valley’, Bloqs, London. In 2023 his work was shown in Memories Gone Wild at ISELP, Brussels, with the international group Fictive Archive Investigations.He runs the imprint StuffLikeThat books (see link above).For earlier work, see https://walkerjulian.tripod.com/id28.htmlRecent shows include:
Aperiodic, Kit Form, Jamaica Street Studios, Bristol
https://sites.google.com/view/thegrimmnetwork/aperiodic-exhibition
Abstracciones, Galeria Andromeda 3.20
http://andromeda3.20.taexvi.org/sala-3/