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Frank and Betty in Aldwych Painting

Brooke Walker

Australia

Painting, Oil on Aluminium

Size: 49.2 W x 49.2 H x 1.6 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Commonly, there is no place like home. However with the ever increasing human population and urban sprawl, the homes of our closest animal relatives are being destroyed. On a recent trip to London I was inspired by the underground jungle of the tube and began thinking about the implications of human encroachment on wildlife habitat. ‘Frank and Betty in Aldwych’ is a juxtaposition of these worlds. I wondered what it would look like if primates had to live in ‘our’ world. Aldwych Station was left abandoned in 1994 and this echos the frivolity of human nature and how easily we abuse and cast away our precious environment. Humans have an overwhelming sense of place and ownership but are we really more entitled to the land than our primate ancestors? The hyperrealistic style makes the scene believable, relatable and more importantly allows the viewer to empathise with Frank and Betty’s predicament.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Oil on Aluminium

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

49.2 W x 49.2 H x 1.6 D in

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Brooke Walker’s artworks give a voice to the voiceless. Her passion for wildlife conservation and desire to understand the intricate nuances of the human/non-human animal relationship inspires her arts practice. This love of wildlife was created and nurtured during childhood surrounded by animals on a hobby farm in McLaren Vale, South Australia. In 2009, Walker graduated from UniSA with a Bachelor in Visual Communication (Illustration Specialisation) and has since continued her artistic studies and skill development through workshops held by Robin Eley of the Art Academy South Australia. In addition, she has sought painting technique mentorships by American painters David Kassan and Shana Levenson. Walker hosted ‘PERICLITATUS’, her first solo exhibition of charcoal drawings in 2015. This exhibition showcased the worlds most endangered species through beautifully rendered portraits. Since then her technique has shifted towards oil painting, while still utilising the same attention to detail, giving her works a hyperrealistic quality. In 2017 Walker was awarded the ‘Hidden World’ Category prize at the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year Awards in London with her work ‘Okapia Johnstoni’. Since then she has also won the ‘Hanger’s Prize’ with ‘Great Barrier Reef 1’ in the 2017 Solar Art Prize, the overall winner for the ‘2018 RSASA Characters of the Fleurieu’ art prize with her artwork ‘Soul’ and the ‘People’s Responsibility’ category prize with the work ‘Life or Death’ in the 2018 Solar Art Prize. She was a finalist in the Lethbridge 10000 and the Alice Springs Art Prize in 2018. Not content with being a traditional wildlife artist, Walkers’ new works blur the lines between the real and surreal. She takes inspiration from historical research and symbolism, current environmental issues such as climate change and urban sprawl and her interest in animal social sciences. Her artworks are intertwined with deep empathy and an emotion that is hard to conceive in the written word. Above all, it is her goal to create beautiful, thought provoking imagery to encourage empathy and discussion in order to entice change in the human attitudes towards non-human animals. Brooke Walker has occupied a studio space at the Fleurieu Arthouse in McLaren Vale for the past year with her arts business Brooke Walker Fine Art being founded 3 years ago.

Artist Recognition
Showed at the The Other Art Fair

Handpicked to show at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art in Melbourne, Melbourne

Artist featured in a collection

Artist featured by Saatchi Art in a collection

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