Website for Julian Walker, artist, writer, educator.
Words, things, interventions, collections, texts, places and reading
Video-still from Gone Away, 2010. (Tally Ho)
Singing songs my grandfather sang in 1914, in the field in Belgium where he was wounded in 1918
Contact:
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And on the regular blog - J Walker words 2
http://jwalkerwords2.blogspot.co.uk/
words, reading, current artwork,
pre-modern medicine, the First World War
and stuff like that
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Email hacking has also rendered my earlier blog unmanageable but it can still be read
http://jwalkerwords.blogspot.com/
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Studio: Valentines Mansion, Emerson Road, Ilford, London, IG1 4XA
(Near Gants Hill Station, Central Line)
The still above is from a video performance made in Belgium, 2010, part of Gone Away, a project working with refugees, researching and exploring the implications of the accommodating of Belgian refugees at Valentines Mansion during the First World War. See pages Gone Away and Words and the First World War.
Here is the News:
Coming Soon:
How to Cure the Plague, & Other Remedies
Published by The British Library,
October 2013
ONE DAY WONDER 3
Valentines Mansion
works by
Helen Rousseau, Anna Kiff,
Pete Smithson, Julian Walker,
Lynn Hewett, Angela Conway,
Shelagh McCarthy
9th June 2013
Next Show
In Dreams
Cob Gallery / GutsforGarters
from 6th June 2013
Royal College Street, Camden
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Artwork for viewing and purchase via
Gutsforgarters
includes Mr Write & Not Responding - altered antique samplers
AVAILABLE NOW:
The Art Of Dissent
published by Marshgate Press,
including the essay:
The Implications Of Linguistic
And Other Associations With
Certain Physical Events
Happening Somewhere
At Some Time
Trench Talk
by Peter Doyle and Julian Walker
The Words of the First World War
A book of soldiers' slang, crossover between languages, officialese, and more.
Jack Johnsons, taubes, mungaree & narpoo
I lead these workshops
at the British Library:
Exploring English,
Ways of Reading,
Research Matters,
& Treasures Tours
For schools, colleges
and study groups
Book through:
Sir Thomas Browne & the Digestion of an Ostrich a concoction of phrenology, ornithology, cranioklepty, mythology, palaeographology, and Moroccan military history, seasoned with curiosity & irony
Planned epublication date - some time
at Nymans House & Gardens,
a National Trust property in Surrey
A series of stitch-based works to be located through the house, as part of a group show.
An altered towel, anti-macassar, and cushion-cover.
4 May to 31 Oct, 2012
