Emma Walker: Intimate Intensity
7 - 30 May 2015
Works
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity I, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity I, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    122 x 150 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity II, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity II, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    150 x 122 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity III, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity III, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    60 x 60 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity IV, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity IV, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    122 x 150 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity IX, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity IX, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity V, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity V, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    150 x 122 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity VI, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity VI, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    60 x 60 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity VII, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity VII, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity VIII, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity VIII, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity X, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity X, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XI, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XI, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XII, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XII, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    60 x 60 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XIII, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XIII, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    60 x 60 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XIV, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XIV, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    60 x 60 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XIX, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XIX, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XV, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XV, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XVI, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XVI, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XVII, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XVII, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    60 x 60 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XVIII, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XVIII, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    60 x 60 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XX, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XX, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XXI, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XXI, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XXII, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XXII, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XXIII, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XXIII, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XXIV, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XXIV, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XXV, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XXV, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
  • Emma Walker, Intimate Immensity XXVI, 2015
    Emma Walker
    Intimate Immensity XXVI, 2015
    oil & acrylic on carved board
    20 x 20 cm
Exhibition Text
Emma Walker, Intimate Intensity
‘Intimate Immensity’ launches Walker’s investigation into the patterns and rhythms that recur in nature and, in the artist’s own words, ‘the tiny and ever-expanding universes that we hold within ourselves.’ From cellular structures to clouds, microorganisms to nebulae, the paintings simultaneously evoke the micro and the macro in a way that is given form by the viewer’s imagination. Informed by the phenomenological ideas of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard – who coined the oxymoronic concept of ‘intimate immensity’ – Walker explores worlds within and without, looking at how our innermost selves are inconceivably interwoven with the vast universe. Painted on timber, her abstracted imagery emerges from a combination of experimentation and intent. Layering, sanding, digging, grinding, glazing, dripping and scratching, the artist creates a melange of surfaces that cause the eye to travel and meander, catching glimpses of familiar patterns while at the same time travelling across unfamiliar visual terrain.
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