Take home the exclusive exhibition catalogue for Barbara Walker: Being Here, the first ever survey exhibition by British artist Barbara Walker, chartering her compelling figurative practice from 1990s to today.
4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025
The illustrated catalogue features new essays on Walker’s practice by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Eddie Chambers, Alice Correia, Leanne Green, Rianna Jade Parker and the exhibition curators Poppy Bowers and Hannah Vollam.
This catalogue is supported by Cristea Roberts Gallery.
For over twenty-five years, Walker has been making intensely observed and empathetic figurative work that creates space for Black presence, power and belonging. Ranging from delicate graphite drawings on archival documents to a monumental charcoal wall drawing, Walker tackles wide-ranging themes such as the policing and surveillance of Black life, twentieth-century war histories, immigration and Old Master paintings to challenge conventions of representation and the histories they are rooted in.