RICHARD WALKER
BIOGRAPHY

1954 Born Yorkshire, England
1972 Kingston School of Art, Surrey (Foundation) London
1973-6 Camberwell School of Art, London (BA Graphic Arts)
1976-7 Chelsea School of Art, London (MA Printmaking)

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1978 One-Man Show Business, Minsky's Gallery, London
1979 Twilight Zones, Thumb Gallery, London
1980 RW3/NW1, Minsky's Gallery, London
1981 Uneasy Living, Thumb Gallery, London
1982 Bodily Fictions, Minsky's Gallery, London
1982 Body /Building, April Bar, Amsterdam
1983 Secret Surfaces, Centre 181, Hammersmith, London
1985 Illuminations, Minsky's Gallery, London
1986 The World at One, Thumb Gallery, London
1987 Inbetweentimes, Minsky's Gallery, London
1988 Street Language, Thumb Gallery, London
1988 Speed of Life, Madison Galleries, Los Angeles
1989 Working Titles, Minsky's Gallery, London
1990 Urban Nature, Thumb Gallery, London
1992 Exploded Views 1, Poster-Galerie, Hamburg
1992 Exploded Views 2, Hilo Pictures, Bonn
1993 Exploded Views 3, Galerie 2000, Berlin
1993 City Sensations, Jill George Gallery, London
1994 Modern Movements, Jill George Gallery, London
1996 International Language, Glaxo-Wellcome, Hamburg
1996 Global Visions, New Academy Gallery, London
1997 In the Mix, New Academy Gallery, London
1998 Metropolitan, New Academy Gallery, London
1998 Metro/Mix, Lawrence Graham, London
1999 Motion Pictures, University of Brighton
1999 United Shapes, Galerie Meissner, Hamburg
2000 Infrastructure, New Academy Gallery, London
2000 Revisited, Canford School, Dorset
2000 City:Sites, Curwen Gallery, London
2001 Punk/Pastoral. White Gallery, Brighton
2002 World's Edge, New Academy Gallery, London
2003 A Dream Reel, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, Sussex
2004 Days of Echo, Curwen Gallery, London
2006 Peace & Noise, Curwen Gallery, London
2007 Outsiders, Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel

MIXED EXHIBITIONS

Since 1977 include regular gallery shows at:
Minsky's Gallery, Thumb Gallery, Jill George Gallery,
New Academy Gallery, Curwen Gallery, London
Madison Galleries, Los Angeles, Galerie Meissner, Hamburg,
White Gallery, Brighton, also - Surface Tension, Flavio Belli Gallery, Toronto; Urban Landscapes, British Council Touring Exhibition;
Three Decades of ILEA Art Schools, Royal Academy,
London;London Tourist Board, Smiths Gallery, London;
A Decade of Printmaking, Camberwell Collage of Art, London;
Paintings Of Modern Life, Guildford House Gallery;
Prague, New Academy Gallery, London.
Art Fairs include: Printmaking at the Barbican
Paintings at Bath, Los Angeles, London ( ART1998,1999,2002)
and Art Fair Cologne 2001. Discerning Eye 2003, London
Alice's Wonderland, Hornseys Gallery, Ripon, Yorkshire, 2007
London Remixed, Artizan Editions, October 2007

PROJECTS / INSTALLATIONS

1985 Art Direction ( Animation, Film and Video), Big Features, London
1991 Travel Commission - Sinclair, Roche and Temperly
(Hong Kong and Singapore)
1995 Suspended Glass Project with British Telecom
and RMJM Architects, London
1996 Masks Project, Prince's Trust, Royal Festival Hall, London
1998 Mural at
Axis Restaurant, One Aldwych Hotel, London
2000 Three Window Installatons,
Barneys, New York
2002
Glass Wall Installation, Hyatt Hotel, Warsaw
2002 Cow Parade, London

 

London Studio 2007

 

PUBLIC / PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Bankgesellschaft (London), BBC (Director General), Binder Hamlyn,
The British Council, BP Amoco, Channel Four Television, Citicorp International Bank, Cleveland City Art Gallery, The Crown Estate, Cruasid, Customs and Excise, De La Rue, Der Spiegel, English Eccentrics, Excelsior Hotel - Heathrow, Fenwick Elliott, Fitch and Company, French Thornton, Gurlings, London, Glaxo-Wellcome (Hamburg and Stevenage), Hamburg Airport, Hamburg Sparkasse Bank, Hammersmith and Fulham Council, London Electricity plc, Jasper Conran,The London Lighthouse, London Tourist Board, Minerva Properties, Munich Re, The National Theatre, London, RCA Corporation, Anita Roddick, University of London (Queen Mary and Westfield College), Sheffield City Art Gallery, Trowers Hamlyn, Vereins-West Bank, Virgin Atlantic, World Travel Market, Westinghouse Corporation USA.

 

PUBLICATIONS

'Image and Myth' (monograph 2004) Paul Holberton Publications, London)
Artizan Editions (Limited Edition Screenprints)
King and McGaw (Posters)
Universal Prints, Hamburg (Posters)

   
 

 

 

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