Ella Walker

Born 1993 in Manchester, UK

Lives and works in London, UK

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

The Romance of the Rose, Pilar Corrias, London

After great pain, a formal feeling comes, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

2023 

Chorus, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

Distant Conversations: Ella Walker and Betty Woodman, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH

2022 

Theatre of Virtues and Vices, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

2020 

Cosmati Floor and Wax Fruit, Huxley-Parlour, London, UK

2018 

Draw out the figure that you will make, EMBASSY gallery, Edinburgh, UK

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 

Present Tense, Hauser and Wirth Somerset, UK

This Isn’t Who It Would Be, If It Wasn’t Who It Is, Casey Kaplan, New York

2021 

Where the threads are worn, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

Fertile Laziness, Platform Southwark, London, UK

Bathing nervous limbs, Edinburgh Art Festival, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

The Strife of Love in a Dream, Frieze London, London, UK

2020 

op.cit., A Plus A Gallery, Venice, IT

Ancient Deities, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

Untitled (But Loved), Bosse & Baum, London, UK

Paintings on, And with Paper, Cob Gallery, London, UK

2019 

New Mythologies, Huxley-Parlour, Swallow Street, London, UK

ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2018 

The Drawing Year 2017-18, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK

Best of the Drawing Year, Christie’s, London, UK

2017 

Minos and Pasiphae, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK

Unswept House, Hidden Lane Studios, Glasgow, UK

Bought Objects, Voidoid ARCHIVE, Glasgow, UK

Glasgow to Leeds; Leeds to Glasgow, Blip blip blip, Leeds, UK

 

Education

2018 

The Drawing Year postgraduate programme, The Royal Drawing School, London, UK

2015 

BA, (Hons) Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK

 

Residencies

2019 

Palazzo Monti x The Great Women Artists, Brescia, Italy

Moritz/Heyman Residency, Voltera, Italy

Dumfries House, Scotland, UK

 

Awards and Grants

2019 

RA Richard Ford Award, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

2018 

Jack Goldhill Prize in Drawing, UK

2017 

Full Scholarship, The Royal Drawing School, UK