A Pocketful of Bitter

Liam Walker First Solo Exhibition in China

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连姆 沃克  Liam Walker  Moderate,Occasionally Poor 41.3*23.5CM Gouache on Paper 纸上水彩 © Liam Walker 图片来自宇宙画廊


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连姆 沃克   Liam Walker  The Last Turn  33*47.7CM 

Gouache on Paper 纸上水彩© Liam Walker 图片来自宇宙画廊


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破裂(Fractured)32.3 x 35.3cm 纸上水彩 Gouache on Paper © Liam Walker 图片来自宇宙画廊


尽力了(Tried My Best)44 x 56cm 纸上铅笔 Pencil on Paper © Liam Walker 图片来自宇宙画廊


Bitter”这个词在英国有多重意思,有痛苦之意,也有代表一种很香的啤酒(这种啤酒是连姆 沃克个人所好,在英格兰北部非常受欢迎)。它会让人产生一种很冷的感觉,也可以是因为糟糕的经历或不公平的待遇而感到的愤怒、伤害或怨恨。

口袋(Pocket)并不大,你不能在里面放很多东西,但它总是离你很近(而且你真的是戴着它,并且随身带着它),你把你最珍贵、最平凡的东西都放进去一一你的手、钱包、火车票、打火机。当你掏空一个死人的口袋时,里面的东西可能会透露出很多关于死者的信息。

就像沃克自己所说:“口袋是小的,像英格兰,但它仍然讲述了一个故事。”


A Pocketful of Bitter

The word 'Bitter' has many meanings in Britain. The Beer (which is Liam's personal beer of choice and very popular in Northern England). It's feeling very cold indeed, and also feeling anger, hurt, or resentment because of a bad experience or a sense of unjust treatment.

A pocket is not large, and you can't keep a lot in it, but it's always very close to you (because you're literally wearing it and carrying it around on your body). You put your most precious and mundane things in it- your hands, your wallet, a train ticket a cigarette lighter.

When you empty a dead man's pocket the contents probably say a lot about the deceased.

As Walker said, a pocketful is small, like England, but it still tells a story.


连姆 沃克 Liam Walker 

图片来自艺术家与宇宙画廊


连姆 沃克来自西约克郡布拉德福德。2012 年,他毕业于爱丁堡艺术学院,获得绘画与素描荣誉学士学位。毕业后,沃克的作品被纳入苏格兰皇家学院的新当代艺术展览。2016年,他从英国皇家绘画学院毕业,沃克的大部分作品都是自传性的:叙事涉及人际关系、爱、家庭、记忆和忧虑。他描绘的场景从过去,到现在,然后又倒回来。艺术家描绘的主要是记忆中的过去,他不知道的过去,以及想象中的过去。


Liam Walker is from Bradford, West Yorkshire. He graduated with a BA Hons in Painting & Drawing from Edinburgh College of Art in ZUTZ. On graduating, Walker's work was included in the New Contemporaries exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy. Much of Walker's work is autobiographical: narratives deal with relationships and sex, home, memory, and worry. His drawn scenes flit from past to present and back again; a past the artist remembers, a past he never knew, and a past imagined.


Liam Walker的作品至今已被重要藏家和机构收藏,包括现查尔斯国王、英国著名企业家和慈善家David Ross、英国著名艺术作家和艺术批评家Wiliam Feaver等。

重要收藏及展览机构包括:英国兰开夏艺术博物馆(Lancashire Museum of Art, United Kingdom)、英国皇室收藏(The Royal Collection, United Kingdom)、伦敦佳士得拍卖行 (Christie's London)、苏格兰皇家学院当代艺术展(Roval Academy of Scotland, New Contemporaries Exhibition)、英国热澡盆艺术举办个展 (Solo Exhibition. WARMBATH.ART. United Kingdom)、英国伦敦佳士得为纪念国王查理三世和王后卡米拉加冕而举办的特别展览(Special Exhibition in honor of the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Christie's London, United Kingdom)。