Caroline Walker
Mothering
Published on 16. September 2025
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-84822-732-3 (ISBN)
Description
Scottish artist Caroline Walker (b.1982) is known for her accomplished paintings which offer a lens into the everyday lives of women. Bringing together work made over the past five years, exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care, this important publication reveals the evolution of Caroline Walker's highly original artistic language.
Through her large canvases, intimate panels and ink sketches, Walker portrays diverse female subjects in settings that blur the boundaries between public and private worlds, and reveal the complex social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society. Walker's considerable skill in fusing a mastery of her medium with subjects that invite debate has ensured her standing as one of the leading painters working in Britain today.
Through her large canvases, intimate panels and ink sketches, Walker portrays diverse female subjects in settings that blur the boundaries between public and private worlds, and reveal the complex social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society. Walker's considerable skill in fusing a mastery of her medium with subjects that invite debate has ensured her standing as one of the leading painters working in Britain today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations; 150 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 246 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
1348 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-732-3 (9781848227323)
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Persons
Eleanor Clayton is Head of Collection & Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield. She has written, edited and contributed to numerous books including Alan Davie and David Hockney: The Early Years (Lund Humphries, 2019). Laura Smith is Director of Collection & Exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield. Melanie Vandenbrouck is the Chief Curator at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. Alex Hyde is a writer and Associate Professor of Gender Studies at University College London.
Content
Foreword, Simon Wallis; Caroline Walker: Being There, Eleanor Clayton; Caroline Walker: Monumental Time and the Labours of Love, Laura Smith; Re-imaging the Traditional: The Intentional Snapshot, Melanie Vandenbrouck; On Mothering: Caroline Walker in Conversation with Alex Hyde; Artist's Biography; Contributors' Biographies; Index