Place, Space and Who

Place, Space and Who_ was created by Walker during a four-month residency at Turner Contemporary. The work explores themes of identity and belonging, featuring sound by artist Dan Scott and depicting five women and girls from different generations of the African Diaspora living in Margate and Kent

“For Place, Space and Who I was concerned with what it is to be seen as belonging to a minority group,” says Walker. In this work she draws on traditions of portraiture in Western art history, attuned to the ways identity and power are reflected in clothing, framing and symbolic objects. These figures,rendered in charcoal and Margate chalk, are about reclaiming a space, they reflect upon the strength and character of women and girls who have been key to establishing this place as home, and their respective contributions through social and cultural gestures – which can be large or small.