JAKE WALKER

Jake Walker’s practice is a self-consciously continuous process of creation, with the goal to make paintings with personality, self-sufficiency and autonomy. His intimately scaled paintings are essentially abstract, yet imbued with an awareness of the messiness of life, revelling in the tactility and resourcefulness of the handmade, in opposition to modern systems of mass-production. In- corporating elements of post-war readymades, monochromes and assemblages, Walker often uses found canvases and salvaged board as surfaces upon which to apply painted marks. His handmade ceramic frames expose an embrace of raw materials, rejecting clean, hard edges in favour of rugged and organic forms. Vestiges of the artist’s hand are displayed in many incarnations via inscriptions of the date and his initials, etched into the paint’s surface – characteristics that reaffirm the works’ handmade origins and document the time and labour of their creation.