Caroline Walker news

Join us for the second edition of London Gallery Weekend on Friday 13 May for an exhibition walkthrough and artist-led talk from Caroline Walker, whose solo exhibition 'Lisa' is currently on display in Galleries 1 & 2. 

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament meet with Caroline Walker to discuss 'Lisa' for Season 13 of Talk Art.

‘Girl Meets Girl’ borrows its title from ‘Girl Now meets Girl Then’, 2019 by British artist Rose Wylie. Brining together 25 women artists of various nationalities, together these voices explore contemporary issues and invite the viewer to enter into a dialogue about the world around us.

The Wolverhampton School of Art presents an artist talk with Caroline Walker to coincide with touring exhibition ‘British Art Show 9’ on Friday 8 April. Walker will be discussing her work, including studio methods and approaches to painting, followed by a Q&A. 

Artist Caroline Walker discusses her exhibition ‘Birth Reflections’ with author and broadcaster Hettie Judah. This baby-friendly discussion explores the subjects of motherhood, pregnancy, birth, and the spaces we encounter during this journey. 

'Captured Beauty' features contemporary works of art drawn from the Arts Council Collection, with paintings by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Denzil Forrester, Ryan Mosely, Mowbray Odonkor, and Caroline Walker. 

We are thrilled to share a selection of recent museum acquisitions. ⁠

Celebrating its 75th anniversary year, the Arts Council Collection presents ‘Right About Now’ an exhibition featuring highlights from its recent contemporary art acquisitions, including a number of works presented publicly for the first time.

Caroline Walker joins writer and art critic Thomas Marks to discuss the integral role of drawing in her practice. They will discuss drawing towards painting in the preparatory stages of a work and as a means of teaching its mood and composition to the hand.

'The Rules of Art?' brings together five hundred years of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, film and ceramics to pose questions about representation, identity and culture. The group presentation includes 'Conditioning', 2019 by Caroline Walker, aquired by the museum in 2019.

'Caroline Walker: Windows', explores themes of privacy and voyeurism. The exhibition brings together large-scale canvases and intimate portraits depicting anonymous women in environments that blur the line between private and public. 

Join Caroline Walker in conversation with Tracey Warren, Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, as they discuss the themes of Walker’s new exhibition ‘Women’s Work’. 

Caroline Walker features in ‘British Art Show 9’, a Hayward Gallery touring exhibition co-presented by institutions across the cities of Aberdeen, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth. Curated by Irene Aristizábal and Hammad Nasar, the exhibition is structured around three main themes: healing, care and reparative history; tactics for togetherness; and imagining new futures.

Government Art Collection acquires 'Shaping', 2019 by Caroline Walker. 

Caroline Walker’s paintings reveal the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society. Drawing on her own photographic source material, Walker provides a unique window into the everyday lives of women. Blurring the boundary between objectivity and lived experience, the artist highlights often overlooked jobs performed by women and the psychologically charged spaces they inhabit.

Caroline Walker features in the group exhibition ‘Everyday Heroes’, presented in the outdoor spaces around the Hayward Gallery and the Southbank Centre, London. Celebrating ordinary people through art and poetry, this open-air exhibition highlights the vital contributions that key workers and frontline staff have made during the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Women’s Work’ is Caroline Walker’s largest exhibition to date, bringing together preparatory studies alongside smaller and large-scale paintings. The presentation comprises intimate portraits of women depicted in isolated settings and examines an often-unseen female workforce.

In this episode of BBC Radio 3's ‘Sunday feature’, Caroline Walker explores the life and work of Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the greatest artists of the Baroque age.

Art Exchange in Colchester presents ‘Home’ by Caroline Walker, a Kettle’s Yard touring solo exhibition co-presented with the University of Essex’s Centre for Migration Studies. The exhibition features a series of paintings, created in collaboration with the charity ‘Women for Refugee Women’ which feature women living in temporary accommodation who the artist met and photographed, before making paintings of each in her studio.