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James Faure Walker

Date of birth 06.Nov.48
Place of birth London
Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact James@faurewalker.demon.co.uk

James Faure Walker has been incorporating the tools of computer graphics into painting since 1988. He works with both physical and digital paint, playing on the contrast between the two, fascinated by what has now become possible. He produces abstract paintings, paintings with images, pieces resembling collages, watercolours, and drawings. Alongside his visual work he has written on this theme, making the case for understanding digital art as a continuation, an extension of the culture of painting.

He studied at St Martins and the Royal College of Art. He has exhibited widely overseas since the seventies, including solo shows in Germany and the USA. In 1998 he won the Golden Plotter at Computerkunst, Germany. In 2002 he was awarded an AHRB Senior Fellowship. He is Reader in Painting and the Computer at Camberwell, University of the Arts.

Selected solo exhibitions:
Fosterart 2006
Galerie Wolf Lieser, Berlin 2003
Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden 2001, 2000
Colville Place Gallery 2001, 1998
Mariani Gallery, Creeley, Colorado, 1996
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 1985

Selected Group exhibitions:
Space Now, Triangle Gallery 2008
Imaging by Numbers 2008, Block Museum, Illinois, USA
SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, USA (8 times 1995-2007)
Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Exhibition (2008,7,6,5)
Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany (1993-2006)
London Group (annually since 2000)
DAM Gallery, Berlin 2005, 3
Bloomberg Space (‘1979’), 2005
Royal Academy Summer Show, 2005
Prospects, Pizza Express Drawing 2003
John Moores XXIII 2002
‘5 x 20’ New Orleans, USA 2001
‘5 x 20’ Oldenburg, Germany 2001
Digital Salon, New York, 2001
‘Silent Motion’, Kingston University
‘Digital Traces’, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, 1999
‘Electrifying Art’ Santa Fe, USA, 1996
Francis Colburn Gallery, Burlington, Vermont, 1995
Whitechapel open (1994, 85, 84, 83, 82, 80)
ISEA, (Rotterdam 1996, Minneapolis 1993, Groningen 1990)
‘The Postmodern Print’, Victoria and Albert Museum 1991
‘Art and Computers’ Middlesbrough, 1988
Artists in National Parks, Victoria and Albert Museum (touring), 1988
Todd Gallery, 1988
Serpentine Summer Show, 1983
John Moores XIII 1982
Hayward Annual (exhibiting selector), 1979
Artists` Market 1975, 73
Stowell`s Trophy 1969

Books:
‘Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer’ (Prentice Hall, USA) 2006
‘Pride, Prejudice and the Pencil’, in ‘Writing Drawing’, edited by Steven Garner, Intellect 2008

Bibliography:
Interview for Mac Radio (Pennsylvania, USA) by Harris Fogel 2006
http://maceditionradio.com/index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=3&pid=40
Leonardo Digital Reviews, June 2006, Rob Harle:
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/june2006/painting_harle.html
Bruce Wands ‘Art in the Digital Age’, Thames and Hudson 2006
Anne Morgan Spalter, The Computer in the Visual Arts, (Addison Wesley USA) 1998
Usborne Book of Computers, 1991
David Storey, ‘A Discreet Native Charm’ Sunday Times, August 1981

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2008!, 01.Aug - 21.Sep.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, Summer exhibition 2006, 17.Aug - 03.Sep.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Painting the Digital River, 03.Mar - 19.Mar.06, Contemporary Art Projects

Publications Garageland : Painting & Translating, 2007, Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer, 2006

Links London on Loan


http://www.artsunwrapped.com/artsunwrapped_studio.php?wk=wk2&st_idb=34&ar_id=134&artistsec=work, http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=3116, http://www.dam.org/faure-walker

 

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