John R Walker
This year marks twenty years since artist John R Walker, moved to Braidwood in rural New South Wales. It’s also the thirty-fifth anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney, the gallery that has represented Walker since it opened in 1988. Born and raised in Sydney, Walker has always preferred being in the bush to city dwelling. For […]
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35 years and counting: Utopia Art Sydney
The anniversary of Utopia Art Sydney is a moment to reflect for the founding director who was, in the early days, one of many young artists in Sydney working multiple part-time jobs to support their exhibiting career. “In the late eighties I saw artists who needed a hand” he explains, with the same purposeful succinctness […]
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John R Walker
John R Walker’s new series ‘Fireground’ presents a cycle of paintings pivoted on the age-old theme of destruction and rebirth.
