James Faure Walker
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- University of the Arts, Kingston University
Location:
- London, United Kingdom
Website:
Bio:
James Faure Walker (b. 1948, London) studied at St Martins (1966-70) and the RCA (1970-72). He has been integrating computer graphics in his painting since 1988. 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 (8 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. He was one of five English artists commissioned to produce a print for the 2010 Fine Art South African World Cup. 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, University of the Arts, London.
Artwork(s):
Dark Filament
Artist(s): [Faure Walker]
[SIGGRAPH 2007,SIGGRAPH Artworks in the Victoria & Albert Museum]
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Art Papers & Presentations]
Painting in a Digital World: I Told You So Presenter(s): [Faure Walker]
[SIGGRAPH 2006]
Type: [Talks (Sketches)]
Still Video and the Painterly Poem Presenter(s): [Faure Walker]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
