Gallery News
3 4 2024
Ella Walker joins Pilar Corrias
Pilar Corrias is thrilled to announce representation of London-based artist Ella Walker.
Using both traditional and contemporary painting techniques and materials, the artist works from a myriad of source imagery – iconography, medieval manuscripts, and classical sculpture to modern ballet, fashion and the cinema of Fellini and Pasolini – unifying historic and contemporary figures and narratives within a single picture plane.
Walker applies light washes of acrylic dispersion, pigment, chalk and marble dust, with selective intensity to an absorbent and textured ground. Employing the spatial logics of fresco and its shallow depth of field, Walker builds her tableaux, placing her painted subjects within stage-like scenes that defy easy delineation between ecstasy, eroticism and suffering.
"Ella Walker is a brilliant artist, whose unique style and painting technique is captivating. Her paintings, layered with a complexity of themes and historical references, operate within the interstices of historic and contemporary visual cultures, creating a new painterly language in between. I am thrilled to be working with Ella on an international level and promoting her extraordinary practice alongside New York gallery Casey Kaplan." – Pilar Corrias
Ella Walker will have her first exhibition with the gallery later this year.
Using both traditional and contemporary painting techniques and materials, the artist works from a myriad of source imagery – iconography, medieval manuscripts, and classical sculpture to modern ballet, fashion and the cinema of Fellini and Pasolini – unifying historic and contemporary figures and narratives within a single picture plane.
Walker applies light washes of acrylic dispersion, pigment, chalk and marble dust, with selective intensity to an absorbent and textured ground. Employing the spatial logics of fresco and its shallow depth of field, Walker builds her tableaux, placing her painted subjects within stage-like scenes that defy easy delineation between ecstasy, eroticism and suffering.
"Ella Walker is a brilliant artist, whose unique style and painting technique is captivating. Her paintings, layered with a complexity of themes and historical references, operate within the interstices of historic and contemporary visual cultures, creating a new painterly language in between. I am thrilled to be working with Ella on an international level and promoting her extraordinary practice alongside New York gallery Casey Kaplan." – Pilar Corrias
Ella Walker will have her first exhibition with the gallery later this year.
