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Julian Walker

Smaller Individual Works














Home | Introduction and recent projects | Births, Chimneys and Lightermen - Collecting Greenwich Peninsula, 2008 | Words and Forgetting, 2007 | Encounters with Objects, EV+A, Limerick 2006 | Art out of place, Norwich, 2005 | Sample, 2003 | Treat Yourself, 2003 | The Best in Heritage, 2002 | Hygiene, 2002 | Art & Work Award 2002 | Unit 2 Gallery, 2002 | Lies & Belonging, 2001 | Walking On Eggshells, 2000 | In The Picture, 2000 | New Contemporaries 99 | Projects 1995 to 2001 | Mr and Mrs Walker have moved, 1998 | Curriculum Vitae | Smaller Individual Works | Work data: size, date, medium | Writing | Reviews | Catalogue Texts | Gone Away, 2010 | Work in progress | Drawing | The British Library | Do Bees Like Van Gogh? | Transmission: Provenance - talk Nov 2004 | Considered alterations | Educational work | Books on language





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Some Mycological Delights, detail, 2006
 
 

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Butterfly & Moth Collection, 2002

Pins are inserted in the body images of butterflies and moths on postage stamps, arranged on a contoured bed of black velvet.
 
 
 
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Lifespan 1
 

 A smaller version of Collection: Retrieved Objects, a visual allegory between parts of the body and watch parts

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Eggs of the World, 2000
 
 
Quails' eggs labelled with the identities of eggs used in various world cultures.
 
 
 
 
 
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The Names of Animals, 2000
 

The names of famous historical and fictional individual animals are applied to fossils, layying the taxonomy of the individual on the species-grouping.
 
 
 
 
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Spoons, 1997
 
A collection of spoons, with zoological descriptions in Greco-Latin.
 
 
 
 
 
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The Names of Animals, detail
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




























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Whispering Campaign, 2001
 

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Arrow-head shapes formed from feathers shed by birds of prey lie over text from Roget's Thesaurus entries pertaining to falsehood.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Botanical Observations, 2005
 
Descriptive sections of the names of wild flowers (dog, butcher's, creeping, etc.) are applied to the bodies of anchovies dried in salt and tied with string.

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Anchovy Collection, 2005
 
The bodies of anchovies dried in salt are laid out in a drawer from a collection once owned by the Rothschild family.
 
 
 
 

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Some Well-known Dogs, 2005

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Botanic Sherds , 2006
 

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Fragments of blue transfer-printed ceramic from the past 400 years showing designs of plants.  The labels indicate the scientific name of the plant shown, with English names composed from fragments of common names of British wildflowers.

 
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Moths of the English-speaking World, 2006
 

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