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Over the past ten years Caroline Walker (b.1982) has become well known for her paintings of women, specifically, women at work in all manner of circumstances from the domestic scenarios of her own lived experience to more detached encounters in shops, cafés, offices and hotels. There’s a lineage here that connects to the domestic interiors of the Dutch Golden Age as well as to the everyday realism of Degas and Manet, the intimism of Vuillard and Cassatt, and the awkward voyeurism of Hopper. Whatever the context, Walker’s work offers the viewer a momentary glimpse into the lives of women, quietly revealing the complexities of their place in contemporary society as fleeting fragments of often invisible female labour take centre stage. Hers is a position of careful observer, drawing our attention to the often-mundane work that is instantly familiar, yet frequently unseen. Walker, who studied at Glasgow School of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London has recently moved back to Scotland and for this, her second exhibition at Ingleby, she has made a new body of work that turns its focus onto the rhythms, routines and everyday intimacies of family life. The show comprises oil sketches, ink drawings and oil paintings, in which we see the women who Caroline has encountered in this new phase of life – the nursery school teachers who spend their days caring for the children of others, the health worker who visits her baby son, the swimming pool teacher encouraging her daughter to swim, and – always in the background – the artist’s own mother, Janet, providing unflagging support. As always in Walker’s work the intimacy of personal reflection is all the more powerful for its universal resonance.
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Caroline WalkerNurture, 2024oil on linen220 x 164.7 cm (framed)
86 5/8 x 65 in -
Caroline WalkerMorning at Little Bugs, 2023oil on linen255 x 385.8 cm (framed)
100 3/8 x 151 7/8 in -
Caroline WalkerSticker Dolly Dressing, 2024oil on linen260 x 184.7 cm (framed)
102 3/8 x 72 3/4 in -
Caroline WalkerArts and crafts, 2023oil on linen195 x 250 cm (framed)
76 3/4 x 98 3/8 in -
Caroline WalkerPreparing for Laurie II, 2023oil on linen185 x 245 cm (framed)
72 7/8 x 96 1/2 in -
Caroline WalkerFriday Cleaning, Little Bugs, 2024oil on linen244.5 x 184.5 cm (framed)
96 1/4 x 72 5/8 in -
Caroline WalkerMini professors, 2024oil on linen184.6 x 139.7 cm (framed)
72 5/8 x 55 in -
Caroline WalkerWonderful water, 2024oil on linen78.7 x 63.4 cm (framed)
31 x 25 in -
SMALL PAINTINGS
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Caroline WalkerSearching, Little Bugs, 2024oil on board53.7 x 43.8 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
OIL STUDIES
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Caroline WalkerStudy for Mini Professors, 2023oil on paper61.5 x 48.5 cm (framed)
24 1/4 x 19 1/8 in -
Caroline WalkerStudy for Friday Cleaning, Little Bugs, 2024oil on paper70.2 x 53.7 cm (framed)
27 5/8 x 21 1/8 in -
Caroline WalkerStudy for Tidying Up, Little Bugs, 2023oil on paper46.5 x 61.1 cm (framed)
18 1/4 x 24 in -
Caroline WalkerStudy for Preparing for Laurie, 2023oil on paper52.8 x 67.3 cm (framed)
20 3/4 x 26 1/2 in
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Caroline WalkerStudy for Mud Kitchen, Little Bugs, 2024oil on paper46.9 x 61.9 cm (framed)
18 1/2 x 24 3/8 in -
INK ON PAPER
Caroline WalkerLittle Bugs 4, 2024Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
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Caroline WalkerLittle Bugs 1, 2023Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerLittle Bugs 2, 2023Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerLittle Bugs 3, 2024Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerLittle Bugs 5, 2024Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
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Caroline WalkerGranny, 2024Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerPreparing for Laurie, 2023Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerSarah Measuring Laurie's Head, 2024Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerSarah Holding Laurie, 2024Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
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Caroline WalkerMini Professors 1, 2023Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerMini Professors 2, 2023Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerMini Professors 3, 2023Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline WalkerMini Professors 4, 2023Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in
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Caroline WalkerSix Weeks Old, 2023Ink on paper53.7 x 43.7 cm (framed)
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in -
Caroline Walker, Nurture, 2024, oil on linen, 220 x 165 cm (framed). Installed at Ingleby, Edinburgh. Photograph: John McKenzie.
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