Eyes Wide Shut Painting

Nara Walker is an Australian artist based in London UK. After graduating in February2014 from Griffith University (Brisbane Australia) she held her first solo show at Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia. Since she has exhibited worldwide in 29 exhibitions and has been nominated as a finalist in numerous awards, including but not limited to; Summer Art Award 2015, Lacey Contemporary, London UK, The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize 2015, Kings Place Piano Nobile, London UK, SeeMe award 2015, Scope Art Show, Miami USA and The Blooom Award 2015, Cologne Germany as one of the long list artist. Nara undertook her first residency in London during August 2014 with Juxtaposed Gallery. She is recognised on an international level with future plans for AIR programs in Shanghai, Singapore and Tbilisi. Exploring physicality within art she has also performed live in Venice and London. Nara's next performance will be during her solo show in May at Mine Sanat Galerisi, Bodrum Turkey. "Through lust and fantasy I aim to manipulate the viewer into the voyeurs position. The body reacts to the touch of another, as does my work. Like a kiss to the back of the knee or a finger brushing up against the inside thigh. Each mark I make influences another. My body becomes the reactor between the surface and the medium. Evoking strokes, gestures and movement, responding to the pleasures of creating and leaving the mark left from the interaction between myself and the medium. In between revealing and concealing ones self my work aims to push away the boundaries of self-imposed rules. My work explores the spirit of self and material.Subconscious dimensions emerge into exploring physicality and echos the tactile body. While creating an organic symbioses between several viewpoints, with an area of deep interplay allowing the viewer to enter an emotional realm. The viewers visual reading becoming that similar to Ariadne's thread, as each symbol allows for a new connotation engaged through the senses."