- Venue
- The Dock
- Starts
- Saturday, June 27, 2009
- Ends
- Saturday, September 12, 2009
- Address
- The Dock, Carrick on Shannon, Co Leitrim Rep of Ireland
- Location
John Walker (b. Birmingham, 1939) is a monumental figure in contemporary painting, an artist whose work has been as daring in its innovation as it has been in its incorporation of the history of painting. Walker is a figure represented in major collections throughout the world, a highly regarded and influential teacher, and a painter whose work embraces Australian, European and North American influences. Though John Walker was born in Birmingham and was associated with British art early in his career (he represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 1972), he left for New York in the early 70s, where his work was warmly received by the New York critics. Walker then moved on to Australia, where he became Dean of the School of Art, Victoria College in Melbourne and where he was deeply influenced by Aboriginal and Australian art and culture. Walker now divides his time between Boston, where he is Director of Graduate Painting at Boston University and Maine, where he paints outdoors in the rugged coastal landscape. The Dock presents large works from John Walker’s current Maine Landscapes series, smaller paintings from the Beano card series and a major work on loan from the collection of the British Council.
