James Faure Walker
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2011
James Faure Walker studied at St Martins (1966-70) and the RCA (1970-72). He co-founded Artscribe magazine in 1976, and edited it for eight years. Recent one-person exhibitions include Galerie Wolf Lieser (2003); Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden (2000, 2001). Group exhibitions include Jerwood Drawing Prize (2010); ‘Digital Pioneers’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2009); ‘Imaging by Numbers’, Block Museum, Illinois, USA (2008); Siggraph, USA (eight times 1995-2007); John Moores, Liverpool (1982, 2002); Bloomberg Space (2005); DAM Gallery, Berlin (2003, 2005, 2009). In 1998 he won the ‘Golden Plotter’ at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany. His ‘Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer’, (2006, Prentice Hall, USA), won a New England Book Show Award. He is Reader in Painting and the Computer at Camberwell, UK.
ISEA2010
James Faure Walker was born in London 1948. ‘Golden Plotter’, Computerkunst, Gladbeck, 1998. Exhibited, ISEA from 1990; DAM Gallery, Berlin; Siggraph 1995 – 2007. 11 works in Victoria and Albert Museum. Editor, Artscribe 1976. Book, ‘Painting the Digital River’, Prentice Hall 2006. Commissioned artist, FIFA 2010 World Cup.
ISEA1994:
James Walker, born in London, UK, 1948, painter, exhibitions: Hayward Annual 1979, Whitworth Manchester (one-man) 1985, SISEA Groningen 1990, FISEA Minneapolis 1993, Computerkunst Gladbeck 1994. Tutor in Computing at RCA 1989 – 1993. Editor Artscribe Magazine 1976 – 1983, articles on computers in art in Modern Painters (92, 94).