My work is a satirical reaction to everyday fashion magazines. I have friends involved in retouching images for magazines and they tell me about being instructed to; for instance, remove the creases from a models elbow joint, which I think is hilarious. I am responding to the plasticization of such figures, not in a critical way, though more playfully in reaction to this synthetic phenomenon. The images also make reference to various icons, with the people in the images being more like popular culture objects than humans. |
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Brian walker is a contemporary digital artist whose images explore and exploit the realm between fantasy and reality, recreating scenes that meld illustration and fashion with an element of surprise.
After studying Visual Arts at UWS Nepean for two years, he transferred to the Visual Communications degrees at UWS Macarthur. There he further focused on photography and was introduced to design and various creative concepts. Since then, Walker has worked in web design, advertising, concept art and more recently teaching visual arts and design at a high school.
Stemming from a passion for illustration to depict his ideas and concepts of surrealist landscapes and characters, Walker first began using photography as a tool to represent these ideas of the impossible within the believable context of photography. The discovery of Photoshop completely revolutionised Walkers work, enabling a progression that continues today of seamless illustration between reality and make believe.
Walker recently had his first solo exhibition at blank_space gallery in Surry Hills where his work was well received.
Email: walkercbrian@hotmail.com
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