John R Walker
John R Walker's paintings are about seeing they embody an ever-present sense of curiosity and responsiveness. Yet they are also about feeling, what it is like to be there. Like all truly authentic landscape art we feel that the artist has experienced things, and he points them out, yet it is nature itself that speaks to us, both of its presence and its strangeness." (Andrew Sayers, 2007)
Walker lives and works in Braidwood, New South Wales and his paintings have come to define the landscape of that region. His exhibiting career spans over 30 years. In early 2008 a retrospective exhibition of Walker's work was staged at the S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney. In March of 2014, a survey of Walker's significant, large-scale canvases opened at Orange Regional Gallery. 'Here I give thanks', a survey exhibition curated by Glenn Barkley, was at The Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra in July 2015.
Walker is included in many major public, private and corporate collections. He is a regular finalist in the Wynne, Archibald and Sulman Prizes.
The Oratunga to Burra Suite of seven large paintings was included in the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art at the AGSA.
Journeys and Return was a survey of Walker's landscapes from the past ten years, at Orange Regional Gallery in 2023-4,
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John R Walker - two fabulous shows
Terroir Big Land Pictures, John’s survey at Orange Regional Gallery, runs until
Sunday 27 April. To view the online catalogues, click on the following:
Catalogue
Installation views
The End of All Our Exploring, an exhibition of John’s recent work at Utopia Art
Sydney, closes on Saturday 26 April. Click here to see Online catalogue.
Also, read Gina Fairley’s review of the show on ArtsHub
Coming up for John R Walker: a major survey and an exhibition of recent work
Terroir: Big Land Pictures, a survey of John R Walker’s major canvases, will be at Orange Regional Gallery from 15 March to 27 April 2014.
Back in Sydney, ‘The End of All Our Exploring’ opens at Utopia Art Sydney on Saturday 22 March.
John R Walker, 'Winter in the Fire Forest' floor talk Saturday 10th November, 3pm
Visit the gallery on Saturday, November 10 at 3pm to hear Bryan Hooper discuss John R Walker’s latest body of work – until November 17.