Julian Walker
Visual artist, London
Print, sculpture, collage, jewellery
Most works are for sale. Please enquire using [email protected]
Microbrutalism
Wanstead Library, London E11
7 - 26 April 2025
The new show incorporates over 150 pieces from the past 20 years, in concrete, stone, wood, bone, pewter, and other materials. It inludes the series 'Pieces for games' and the pin-brooches worked in bone, concrete and silver.
Prices range from £40 for the smallest works, to £45 for the pin-brooches, up to £150 for the lager pewter works, and £200 for the larger concrete and stone works. Contact me, ideally with a snapshot, if you are interested in purchasing.
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Please note
This site is for studio work - for work engaging with heritage, museums and historical objects and sites go to
Constructivist jewellery in bone, silver, concrete
Moderno-primitivist work using forms and materials based on current work
Bone, ebony, silver, concrete
Brooches with long pins and stoppers, for lapels, hats
Earstuds with silver plated piles and scrolls
Prices range from £45 to £65
Earstuds #1, bone, concrete, silver, 1 x 1 cm
£35 + £3.50 postage (UK only)
Sold out, more available soon.
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)
Sold
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-exhibitionAbstracciones, Galeria Andromeda 3.20
http://andromeda3.20.taexvi.org/sala-3/