I shouldn’t care but I do, Ellie Walker, Oil, oil stick and thread on canvas, 170 x 110 cm, 2025
Ellie Walker. 1995, recently graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School with an MA in Fine Art.
Walker's practice is emotive and process-driven, investigating the unknown through drawing and material experimentation. Uncertainty and failure sit at the core of the work and are not only embraced but actively exploited, creating space for chance and the emergence of new forms. These disruptions unsettle habitual ways of working, allowing the paintings to evolve along unexpected trajectories.
Walker often scrapes back layers or draw into areas of wet paint with oil sticks, revealing earlier surfaces or building thicker, messy, textural ones. Walker usually works on unstretched canvas stapled to the wall or laid on the floor, treating it like a drawing, flipping the works upside down, or tearing up new and old paintings and stitching them back together to combine with entirely different works. This process of layering, erasure, destruction, and repair keeps the work in a constant state of tension, playing with control, release, and re-emergence, keeping it resistant to resolution.
By engaging in the problem-solving inherent in the making, Walker reconnects with themselves through the physicality of doing, creating visual records of a dialogue between their inner world and the tangible, physical process of making. These documentations reflect their shifting, non-linear memories and experiences into emotional landscapes. The resulting works forge connections that are at once personal, separate, and universally shared.
Works:
Two suns, Ellie Walker, Oil and thread on canvas, 30 x 42 cm, 2025
I shouldn’t care but I do, Ellie Walker, Oil, oil stick and thread on canvas, 170 x 110 cm, 2025
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