JAMES FAURE WALKER
Born 1948, London
Lives and works in London
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
SELECTED GROUP SHOWSLives 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 |
| 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
PUBLICATIONSLeicester 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
| 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. ISEA96 comment in Rhizome Internet Digest.High Culture meets Mall Culture in Wired Dec. Statement in YLEM San Francisco, USA. Catalogue introduction in Computerkunst. |
| 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 |