ITW Artworks

About the Book

This book follows approximately, in image format, the chronology of the artist’s life—though not all his works are shown. Some cartoons as well as illustrations from books are included. Painting series numbers are approximate. Images are listed as small when their height is below 1.5 meters. Measurements are also approximate. Many of the smaller works have sold or, in the case of the murals, been destroyed. The poorer reproductions herein are copied from single photographs that, in many instances, are all that remains. All the large canvases survive.

About the Author

In 1974, at the age of twenty-one, Walker held his second one-man show in Clarence Street, Sydney, where many of the large canvasses shown in this book were displayed. For this show, he hired the entire ground floor space of a modern office building. All the smaller works sold and only one of the fourteen larger canvasses. At the end of the show, after paying for the opening night, Walker owed the company five dollars. Of his early works, the artist writes: “I was as free as a bird. I had my house and could catch a fish and eat it too. I knew I had to express this bedazzlement of being as it was brimming over like a full-moon tide.”