Caroline Walker

Caroline Walker is best known for her large-scale canvas works and intimate scenes depicting anonymous women, that blur the boundaries between public and private.

Born in 1982 in Dunfermline in Scotland. She attained her BA at the Glasgow School of Art, before going on to complete her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2009. Walker’s process initially involved hiring models and staging domestic scenes which she photographed and used as the source material for her paintings. More recently, her practice has adopted a more documentarian approach, profiling women at work in restaurants, nail bars, hair salons and hotels. As a cohesive body of work, Walker’s paintings explore the performance of gender identity, femininity and question how women are depicted across a range of socio-economic contexts. 

Caroline Walker has exhibited widely with notable solo shows held at Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh, GRIMM Gallery in Amsterdam and New York, Kettles Yard in Cambridge and SpaceK in Seoul. Her works are also held in public collections including the National Museum Wales and the UK Government Art Collection.