Barbara Walker - Being Here

For over 25 years, the British artist Barbara Walker has been making intensely observed and empathetic figurative work that creates space for Black presence, power and belonging. Ranging from delicate graphite drawings on archival documents to a monumental charcoal wall drawing, Walker tackles wide-ranging themes such as the policing and surveillance of Black life, 20th-century war histories, immigration and Old Master paintings to challenge conventions of representation and the histories they are rooted in. This is the first major survey exhibition by Walker, chartering her compelling figurative practice from 1990s to today. The catalogue, supported by the Cristea Roberts Gallery, features essays on Walker's practice by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Eddie Chambers, Alice Correia, Leanne Green, Rianna Jade Parker and exhibition curators Poppy Bowers and Hannah Vollam.