David Walker Barker
Portal - into an infinite web of connections
102cm x 76.5 cm
David Walker Barker
David Walker Barker was born in South Yorkshire. He Studied at Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art in London, going on to win several awards.
Walker Barker has work in public collections including the Arts council of Great Britain, The British Institute and National Westminster Bank.
"When I look at the landscape it is not hills, rivers and woodlands that I see nor the industriniscape or urban sprawl but layers of time stretching back to the beginning of the universe."
This short statement summarises the range and and diversity of David Walker Barker's visual works. Simultaneously it identifies a fascination for land surface and environments, for a sense of place and for what he terms, "deep nature" - the subatomic and microcosmic and for time itself. His work is governed by a compelling insight that reality is structured on principle of synchronicity; everything is everywhere present at all times. Like the landscape and the processes that underlie it, Walker Barker's visual works identify and reiterate many of his main and enduring themes, "Phenomena subtly interrelated in a manner beyond the grasp of ordinary logic", "casuality at a deeply intuitive level, consonance between ourselves and other entities" in a process beyond conscious awareness,events in and through deep time".
Thus his visual works are no longer images of landscapes, are not topographical or scenographic, but re-enactments of events and forces, of the underlying dynamic process that fulfills every level of existence. They allude to the continuous retelling of the story of life from the most archaic of origins, human and non-human, conscious and material, historical and natural, life before life ever was, the whole burgeoning livingness of matter.
Quotations from "Migrations through time: the paintings and constructions of David Walker Barker".