Emma Walker
Born 1969, Sydney, Australia
Lives & Works – Mullumbimby (Bundjalung)
Emma Walker consistently and evocatively engages with the natural world, looking at the patterns and rhythms that recur in nature. Carving, sanding, digging, grinding, glazing, dripping and scratching into layered timber, the artist creates a unique process and approach to her sculptural wall paintings. From ancient landscapes of sea, rock and sky to the microscopic patterns and rhythms that power existence, her work moves between the micro and the macro in a formative dance. As much about the process of painting as they are with visually imprinting the Australian environment, Walker’s unique imagery emerges from a combination of experimentation and automaticity, each mark growing from the next in a catalytic reaction that emulates the geological occurrences that cause continents to move and shorelines to reshape, etching on the faces of rocks, rivers and ravines.
Walker has been exhibiting for over thirty years. Her career has enjoyed the strong support of patrons Ann Lewis AO, Nick Waterlow, OAM and Julian Beaumont OAM. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney, and she has also studied in Italy and travelled extensively. She was a finalist in the Paddington Art Prize (2017, 2013, 2010, 2008) and winner of the prestigious Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2014). Walker has held numerous exhibitions in both Sydney and Melbourne, and her work features in several major public and corporate collections including Macquarie Bank, Australian Club, Sydney, Lismore Regional Gallery, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre and Bathurst Regional Gallery, in addition to various private collections in Australia, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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Arthouse Group Show
Summer – Part 1 9 - 27 January 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to begin 2024 with 'Summer' featuring a selection of new and exciting works from our stable of artists. This coming year features solo shows by newly–represented,...Read more -
Group Show
Paper 4 May - 10 June 2023'Paper & Clay' brings together the work of twenty-nine Australian artists traversing the timeless materiality of two enduring artforms. Unencumbered by dense conceptual wilderness, the works in this show posit...Read more -
Group Show
Clay 4 May - 10 June 2023'Paper & Clay' brings together the work of twenty-nine Australian artists traversing the timeless materiality of two enduring artforms. Unencumbered by dense conceptual wilderness, the works in this show posit...Read more -
Emma Walker
Distillations 28 August - 18 September 2021The seeds of ‘Distillations’ were sown in March 2020, when I went to Port Macquarie as an invited artist of the Glasshouse residency program. Midway through my stay, the town...Read more
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Emma Walker
The Dark Sublime 8 - 23 November 2019The world we see is a world we know. That which is above the surface. However, a small investigation into an unseen world enables us to glimpse at its enormous...Read more -
Sydney Contemporary 2019 Group Show
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Emma Walker
Surface Immersion 13 - 16 September 2018Emma Walker’s new collection of paintings, ‘Surface Immersion’, illuminates the creative power that dwells between contradictions and boundaries. Drawing inspiration from extensive travel and an innate desire to absorb the...Read more -
Emma Walker
Sediment Songs 14 September - 1 October 2016‘Sediment Songs’ represents Emma Walker’s intuitive translations of different experienced environments. Carved and painted on board, the works channel the vast native landscapes the artist has walked through in Central...Read more
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Emma WalkerSlow Timeacrylic and cedar on marine ply122 x 103 cm$16,500
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Emma WalkerĀbhāsa (Reflection, Splendour), 2021single–channel audio–video work$6,600
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Emma WalkerAcharya (Preceptor), 2021gesso, acrylic polymer & wax on marine ply60 x 65 cm$6,500
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Emma WalkerNatural Progression, 2023ceramic, fabric, paint, branch, dowel14 x 165 cm, (height variable)$3,800
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Emma WalkerBalancing Act, 2023ceramic, fabric, paint152 x 76 cm$3,600
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Emma WalkerProtection, 2023ceramic, marine ply, dowel30 x 30 cm$3,400
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Emma WalkerAgādha (Unfathomable), 2021fire, charcoal, ink, & wax on marine ply30 x 30 cm$3,400
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Emma WalkerĀrya (Loyal), 2021gesso, fire, acrylic polymer & wax on marine ply30 x 30 cm$3,400
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Emma WalkerĀśaṃsā (Wish), 2021gesso & wax on marine ply30 x 30 cm$3,400
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Emma WalkerSlow Drift I, 2023mixed media on paper76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)$3,200
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Emma WalkerInteraction, 2023ceramic, timber, branch, paint50 x 15 cm
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Exhibition Calendar 2024
31 December 2024ARTHOUSE GALLERY ANNOUNCES A DYNAMIC AND EXCITING EXHIBITION CALENDAR FOR 2024 Arthouse Gallery is delighted to announce our dynamic exhibition program for 2024. This coming...Read more -
Arthouse Gallery artists part of Women for Change
Sibyl Centre, Womens College at the University of Sydney. 6 February 2024Arthouse Gallery is delighted to be participating in a major fundraising event for Women for Change. The inaugural IGNITE Art Show is a silent auction...Read more -
Tree of Life at S.H. Ervin Gallery
Curated by Gavin Wilson 30 May 2021Tree of Life curated by Gavin Wilson will be on display at S.H. Ervin from Saturday 10 April until Sunday 30 May 2021. Threads woven...Read more