JAMES FAURE WALKER

Born 1948, London
Lives and works in London

1970-72  
Aesthetics (XVIIIc) at the Royal College of Art, MA
1966-70 Painting at St Martins, Dip AD

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2005- present Research Fellow, SCIRIA, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts       
2000-05                    
Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art (AHRB Senior Research Fellow)
Kingston University   
1997-2000
Lecturer in Painting and Visual Communication, BIAD, UCE,            
Birmingham
1972-94
Part Time Tutor and Visitor at:
Royal Academy Schools; Royal College of Ar; Bristol Polytechnic; Canterbury School of Art; Goldsmiths; West Surrey School of Art; London College of Fashion; St Martins School of Art; Loughborough College of Art; University of East London; University of Hertfordshire; Manchester Polytechnic; Newcastle Polytechnic; The Slade; Chelsea School of Art; Trent Polytechnic; Byam Shaw; Maidstone School of Art; Cardiff Polytechnic; Reading University; Norwich School of Art; Wimbledon School of Art; Corsham; Middlesex Polytechnic; Leicester University; Lanchester Polytechnic; Portsmouth Polytechnic; Winchester School of Art; The Open University; Avery Hill College of Education; Bristol Polytechnic; Lancashire Polytechnic
1983-2006
External Examiner, Moderator
Thames Valley University Music and Creative Media; Royal College of Art; Tower Hamlets College; Humberside College of Higher Education
1982-2006           
Overseas Artist-in Residence, Visiting Fellow, Lecturer
Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Rhode Island; New York
Studio School; Art School of University of Kassel; Arizona State University;
Savannah College of Art, Georgia; Columbus College, Georgia; University of
Michigan; The American School in Switzerland (Tasis); Nova Scotia School of
Art and Design, Halifax, Canada; Michigan State University; Western Michigan
University; Philip Institute of Technology, Melbourne; RMIT, Melbourne;
Prahran, Melbourne; WAIT , Perth; Canberra School of Art; Queensland College of Art; Ballarat CAE; Sydney College of the Arts; Sydney Art Institute.

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS


2006      Fosterart Gallery, London 
2003
[DAM]Berlin
2001
Entory, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden, Germany
2000
Colville Place Gallery, London
Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden, Germany
1998
Colville Place Gallery, London
1997
TASIS (US college in London)
1996
Mariani Gallery, Greeley, Colorado, USA
1987
Vortex Gallery, London
1985
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2008        Imaging By Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois, USA
11th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2007
FADE Chelsea College of Art
Siggraph San Diego, USA
Studio Show Bridget Riley Studios
Summer Show Contemporary Art Projects, London
CADE Perth, Australia
Siggraph Art Gallery Travelling Show
iDEAs 07: Beyond Boundaries, Philadelphia, USA
Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries
London Group, Menier Galleries
Selected for London Group project, window display, Bridge Art Fair, Trafalgar Square, Bridge Art Fair, Trafalgar Square
Graphite Perth, Australia
2006
Alexander Von Moltke, London
London Group, Bankside 2006 London Group, Sassoon Gallery
Filament London Print Studio (Curated by James Faure Walker)
Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries
Arti De Salon, Amsterdam
Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany
IdeA, San Diego, California, USA
Summer Show Fosterart Gallery, London
2005
London Group, Bankside
IDAA, Melbourne Australia
FosterArt Gallery
Frankfurt Art Fair
1979, Bloomberg Space, London
Old Gems, [DAM]Berlin, Berlin
Royal Academy Summer Show, London
Singer and Friedlander Watercolour Competition 
UNESCO catalogue/portfolio, Paris
2004
Innsbruck Art Fair   
Siggraph, Los Angeles, USA   
London Group, Menier Gallery  
IDAA, Melbourne Australia   
Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany
2003
Drawing - the Process  
London Group, Woodlands Art Gallery   
Arcade IV   
Innsbruck Art Fair  
DAM, Soho House  
[DAM]Berlin, Berlin 
Four from London Group, Walk Gallery  
Prospects, Pizza Express Drawing  
Siggraph, San Diego, California, USA   
Siggraph Travelling Art Show   
Cocktail, Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton Square  
Gallery 27 Cork Street (London Group)   
London Group, Café Gallery, Southwark   
Space Studio Show, 10 Martello Street  
Köln Alternative Art Fair
2002
Innsbruck Art Fair, Austria   
Frankfurt Art Fair, Germany   
Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany   
Siggraph, San Antonio, Texas, USA   
John Moores, Liverpool   
London Group, Trinity Gallery, Tonbridge Wells  
Embodied Mind, Deluxe Gallery
2001
Arcade III, Glasgow   
Silent Motion, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston  
Silent Motion, Colville Place Gallery  
Siggraph, Los Angeles, USA   
5 x 20, Oldenburg, Germany   
Digital Salon, New York  
London Group, Woodlands Gallery  
London Group, Stark Gallery 
5 x 20 Loyola University, New Orleans, USA
2000
Marks and Spencer, London  
Page Gallery, Zurich Switzerland   
CG Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan 
Golden Plotter winners, Innovation Centre, Gladbeck, Germany
The Historical Museum, Novorsibirsk, Siberia Russia
Innsbruk Art Fair, Austria 
Group Show, Colville Place Gallery, London
DArt 2000, University of London 
London Group, Lethaby Gallery
Digital Secrets, Arizona State University, USA
1999
Gamut, Teesside
Dream Centenary, Aizu, Tokyo, Japan
Disseny o art? Caligrama Merce Marques Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Digital Traces, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, USA 
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, USA   
Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden, Germany 
Eurographics, Milan, Italy 
The Digital Muse, Wellesley College, Boston, USA
Mixed show, Colville Place Gallery
Studio Show, SPACE, Martello St
SIGGRAPH, travelling show, USA 
Nova Data, Frankfurt, Germany
Bit Stream, Le Vall Gallery, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia
Cross-Currents, Lloyds of London
Affordable Art Show, London
Zurich Art Fair, Switzerland 
The Contemporary Print Fair, London
Five by Twenty, Stanley Picker Gallery, University of Kingston
1998
Space Open Studios 
Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany (touring to Austria)
Winner of ‘Golden Plotter ‘ Prize
SIGGRAPH, Orlando, Florida, USA
Group show, Colville Place Gallery
1997
Arcade II, Brighton University, touring
Group show, Colville Place Gallery
1996
Columbus College, Georgia USA
ISEA, Rotterdam, Holland
Electrifying Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Golden Plotter, Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany (touring to Austria)
Space Open Studios
Digital Arts III
1995
CADE, Brighton 
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, USA
Francis Colburn Gallery, Burlington, Vermont USA
Marks and Spencer, London
Digital Arts II, London
1994
Whitechapel Open
Space Open Studios
Golden Plotter, Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany (touring)
1993
Space Open Studios
FISEA, Minneapolis, USA
1991
The Postmodern Print, Victoria and Albert Museum
1990
SISEA Second International Symposium on Electronic Art) Groningen,
Holland
1989
Coach-house Gallery, Kirkby Lonsdale
1988
Todd Gallery
Artists in National Parks, Victoria and Albert Museum (touring)
Art and Computers, Middlesbrough
1987
Vortex Gallery (with Noel Forster, Paul Davie)
Patricia Knight Gallery
1986
Space Open Studios
1985
Whitechapel Open
1984
Whitechapel Open
Camberwell Staff Show, South London Art Gallery
The Underwater Show, Plymouth Arts Centre
1983
Whitechapel Open
Serpentine Summer Show II
Critic’s Space, AIR Gallery (selected by Tim Hilton)
1982
Whitechapel Open 
John Moores XIII, Liverpool
1980
14 Artists, Somerville College, Oxford, (selected by Jennifer Durrant)
Whitechapel Open
AIR Gallery (Space Auction)
1979
Stowell`s Trophy (as previous award winner) Royal Academy
Hayward Annual (exhibiting selector) 
Style in the Seventies, Artscribe touring exhibition (Arnolfini, etc)
1976
Artists` Market
1975
Space Open Studios
Courtauld Institute
1973
Artists` Market
Space Open Studios
1969
Stowell`s Trophy (commended prize)

AWARDS

2007    
New England Book Award, USA   
Jury Recommended Works, evaluated highly by the jury of the Art Division
2002
AHRB Senior Research Fellowship
1998
Golden Plotter, Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany (first prize)
1970
Stowell`s Painting Prize (commended)
1968
Walter Neurath Prize

COLLECTIONS

Victoria and Albert Museum (on permanent display in XXc Gallery)
Leicester Education Authority
Arthur Andersen
Block Museum, Illinois, USA
DuArt, New York, USA
Columbus College, Georgia, USA
Museum of  Gladbeck, Germany
private collections in UK, USA, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Australia
Sidell Gibson architectural practice
Oldenburg, Germany
Computer works loaned to Cable and Wireless, London
the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois, USA

PUBLICATIONS

2008     Pride, Prejudice and the Pencil in Steven Garner (Ed) Writing Drawing, Intellect.
2007
Bruce Russell, Paintings in Beardsmore Gallery 2007.
Translation, Translation, Oh Translation in Garageland magazine.
2006
Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer (Prentice Hall) January 2006.
I Told You: Painting in Digital Culture in Siggraph Art and Animation Catalogue, Boston, USA 2006.
Altered Filament, Artech conference, Pontevedra, Spain.
2005
Painting and Digital Art in A&I (Artists and Illustrators) April 2005.
2003
Interview (78) republished in Clement Greenberg, Late Writings, 2003.
How digital and traditional mediums can work together in Artists and Illustrators.
2002
Drawing in Tracey Online Journal 2002.
Heron, De Kooning, Serious Games, British Abstract in etc 1000 Reviews Backwards.
2001
Plugging into the Past: Muybridge in Art Review.
Silent Motion catalogue essay, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University.
Stanley Picker Memorial Lecture, Tate Britain, May 8.
2000
Forms in Motion catalogue introduction to Computerkunst, Gladbeck Germany.
Studio Visit in Jeff Dellow catalogue, Standort Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany.
1999
Review of The Computer in the Visual Arts in Computer Generated Imaging, Feb 1999.
From 1979 to 1999, essay in 5 into 20, Kingston University, exhibition catalogue.
1998
Pigeons and the Digital Print in Computer Generated Imaging.
On Touch in Digital Painting catalogue introduction to Computerkunst.
Revolution through the Carpet in Computer Generated Imaging.
Patrick Heron Paintings of the Seventies (reprinted) Tate Gallery.
Paul Clifford ‘Migrations’ in Chichester Festival catalogue.
Report on Siggraph 98 Florida in Computer Generated Imaging Sept 1998.
Report on ISEA 98 in Computer Generated Imaging Nov.
1997
Paint programs in Computer Generated Imaging.
Cyber theory, Oh Dear in Computer Generated Imaging.
Report on CADE in Computer Generated Imaging.
Computers in the Painting Department in Outline CTI.
Slaves to the Algorithm in Computer Generated Imaging.
Review of Painter 5 in Computer Generated Imaging.
Review of ISEA 97 in Chicago Computer Generated Imaging.
1996
Cool Heaven: Painting and the New Electronic Art in CHART Proceedings.
High Culture meets Mall Culture in Wired Dec.
Statement in YLEM San Francisco, USA.
Catalogue introduction in Computerkunst.
ISEA96 comment in Rhizome Internet Digest.
1995
Teaching Cyber Art in CADE, Brighton.
Computing and Painting in London Siggraph Art Show catalogue, LA.
The Siggraph Electronic Theatre in FPS animation magazine, Montreal.
The Outside/Inside of Techno Art in Mute Winter.
Report of Montreal ISEA in ISEA Newsletter.
1994
Art and the Intelligent in Lunch-Box Modern Painters Spring.
Computers, Painting and Ambition in 5th ISEA Proceedings.
1992
Painting with the Computer in Modern Painters Summer.
1989
The Computer and Painting in Breaking the Barriers, Preston.
1985
Patrick Heron: Paintings of the Seventies in Barbican exhibition catalogue.
The Figure in Sculpture in Ikon Gallery Catalogue.
James Faure Walker in Whitworth Gallery exhibition catalogue.
De Kooning entry in Makers of Modern Culture, Routledge.
1976 - 1984  
Co-editor Artscribe Issues 1-4, and Editor Artscribe Issues 5-43, and Regular Contributor.
1983   
Artscribe in Britain in Marseille Art Present catalogue, France.
1980
In Defence of Artscribe in Art Monthly.
1979
Relevance in Criticism in Style in the Seventies catalogue.
Introduction in Hayward Annual Catalogue, Arts Council.
1978
Paper at the State of British Art conference, ICA Studio International.
1976
Paper at the AIR Conference on Criticism (published 1979)
1975
The Activity of Criticism I and II (interviews with Max Kozloff, Harold Rosenberg, Rosalin Krauss, Lucy Lippard, Roberta Smith, Darby
Bannard, etc) in Studio International.
1974/6
Reviews of David Novros, Bernard Cohen, Peter Stroud, Basil Beattie, Henry Mundy, Brendan Neiland, Space Studios, Sean Scully, John Edwards, et in Studio International