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. The 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. The
publication features around eighty illustrations of the preparatory
studies and paintings that comprise this new body of work. It has
been designed by Joanna Deans, Identity, with photography by Peter
Mallet. The publication was produced by Ingleby, Edinburgh, and
printed by Die Keure, Bruges. It was co-published in 2020 by
Ingleby and Anomie Publishing, London, in an edition of 1500
copies. Caroline Walker was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1982.
She attended Glasgow School of Art from 2000-04, before completing
her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2009. Recent and forthcoming
exhibitions include Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, the Midlands Arts
Centre (MAC), Birmingham, and participation in the ninth edition of
the British Art Show. She is represented in a number of public
collections including the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, the UK
Government Art Collection, London, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker,
Norway, and Museum Voorlinden & Kunstmuseum den Haag, in the
Netherlands. Hettie Judah is chief art critic of the British daily
newspaper The i, a regular contributor to The Guardian, The New
York Times, Frieze, Art Quarterly, Numero Art and The Art
Newspaper, and a contributing editor to The Plant. Recent
publications include a short biography of Frida Kahlo (Laurence
King, 2020) and Art London (ACC Art Books, 2019).
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