Julian Walker
Visual artist, London
Print, sculpture, collage
Brutalist Sculpture
Work in brutalist overlapping forms, in wood, concrete, copper, pewter, and mixtures of these.
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 24/2d
Cast and carved concrete, 8cm tall
Microbutalist netsuke 24/2a
Wenge, 3.3cm high
Microbrutalism 24/2e
Cast and carved concrete, 4cm tall
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
2 carved stone balls
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
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.
Two Unassigned Bone Objects
Bovine bone and pigment, 14 and 9 cm long
Rod or Staff 1
Carved hardwood, 4cm
Rod or Staff 2
Engraved and inked bone, 10.5cm
They Came
Carved bone, 5 x 2cm
Rod or Staff 3
Engraved and inked bone, 8cm
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
BrPr/24/03/a/01
BrPr/24/03/b/01
BrPr/24/03/c/01
Etching 5x5 cm
Etchings 7x7 cm
BrPr/24/02/b/01
BrPr/24/02/c/01
BrPr/24/02/d/01 or 34
Etching 5 x 5cm
BrPr/24a/01
Etching 5cm sq
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
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
The Storm
Somerset Levels
and Far Away
sold
Socially Distanced
No Forwarding Address
Waiting for the Mail
Swan Lake
Just You Wait
I See You (framed)
.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.htmlCurrent and forthcoming 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/