Julian Walker
Visual artist, London
Print, sculpture, collageMost works are for sale. Please enquire using [email protected]Below are works shown in the Owen Rowley Prizewinners exhibition, October 24
Coloured etchings, £120 each, framed (more below)
Wood engravings, edition of 50, £90 each (+ £20 framed)
City Stressed 3 - Selectors’ Highlight, 5th International Biennial of Miniature Prints, Laguna Paiva, Argentina
Some of the colour etchings were shown in Abstracciones, Galeria Andromeda 3.20, Mexico, 2024
Brutalist Sculpture
Work in brutalist overlapping forms, in wood, concrete, copper, pewter, and mixtures of these.
Small form
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
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
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
Two more pieces for another game
Bone, sandstone, 45 x x 20mm
Rod or Staff 2
Engraved and inked bone, 10.5cm
The Man
Carved bone, 9 x 2cm
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
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/