Sam Walker

Avoiding the Silence

2022

Oil on board

188mm (H) x 150mm (W) x 15mm (D)

Unframed

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Artist Statement

There is no horizon-line in Wellington: in its place is a verticality. The hills are carved with hairpin turns and stacks of houses. In this painting layers of images have been coalesced into a single plane.

About the Artist

Sam Walker

I am from Ōtautahi Christchurch and studied my Bachelors and Masters in Painting in Christchurch at the Ilam School of Fine Arts. I moved to the greater Pōneke Wellington area with my partner in late 2020 upon the completion of my Masters degree. I grew up in Christchurch’s greenbelt, just outside of Halswell. A lot of my artistic sentiments are a mix of semi-rural experience and formative years skirting around a broken city centre. Both the landscape and this ‘brokenness’ is translated into literal subjects in my work.
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