Caroline Walker
Subtitle: Janet
By: [intervied by] Hettie Judah
Contributors: Judah, Hettie, interviewer; Ingleby Gallery
Publisher: Ingleby
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781910221266
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Exhibitions; Interviews; Scottish Painting; Women in art
Description: Scotland-born, London-based artist Caroline Walker is celebrated for her paintings exploring the lives of women, from those living luxury lifestyles to those fleeing oppression. In this publication, which was produced to accompany Walker's first exhibition with Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, in autumn 2020, the artist turns her attention closer to home, presenting a series of paintings in which the focus is the artist's own mother, Janet, as she goes about her daily tasks: cooking, cleaning, tidying and tending the garden of the Fife home where the artist spent her childhood.0The publication features a newly commissioned essay and an interview with the artist by critic and author Hettie Judah. The essay opens by comparing Walker's works to the Dutch Golden Age, encouraging consideration of everyday domestic scenes. Judah then leads the reader through Walker's latest series of works, exploring the daily routines and household chores that have filled Walker's mother's days for the past forty years, along with the artist's treatment of these activities. Judah deftly locates this latest body of work within Walker's wider practice, opening up discussion of women at work in different industries and notions of invisibility. She asserts: 'While "Janet" extends Walker's long-held interest in women's work, the series is also a loving undertaking. The artist offers us her mother with great pride, both in particular, and on behalf of other mothers overlooked and working out of sight.' The interview offers further insight into Walker's thoughts in relation to the "Janet" series, and to the working processes behind it.00Exhibition: Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (03.10-19.12.2020).
Notes: Published to accompany the exhibition held at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh.