About

Mike Walker is a painter, printmaker, teacher and writer. He has exhibited widely and has work in private collections in Britain and America. Although primarily a studio-based artist he has a long standing interest in collaborative projects and has worked with poet Emma-Jane Arkady, composer Bryn Harrison, graphic designer Steve Rodgers and most recently with fellow painter Clifford Charles. Mike has completed doctoral research on the phenomenology of abstract painting and writes about the work of other contemporary artists.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024 - Oceania, Window Arch Gallery, Ryde

2019 – Marking Time, ArtOne Gallery, University of Chichester
2014 – Sequence, GalleryMuse, Petersfield
2011 – Paintings for a Light Room, Claremont Studios, Hastings
2008 – Line Paintings, The Bowery, Leeds
2006 – Music for a Light Room / Music for a Dark Room, with composer Bryn Harrison, Exeter Phoenix Arts Centre
2006 – Recent Paintings, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2005 – Linden Sequences, Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 - Possibility/Space: Naty Lopez-Holguin and Mike Walker, ArtSpace, Portsmouth

2023 - Modern Made, Mall Galleries, London

2022 - Jane Fremantle and Mike Walker, Oxmarket Contemporary, Chichester

2018 – Ink, Sussex Printmakers, Colonnade House, Worthing
2016 – Both Ends of Madness, APT Gallery, Deptford
2015 – Shipping Translated, Baltic Exchange, London
2015 – Plastic Propaganda, 125 Old Broad St., London
2014 – End, GalleryMuse, Petersfield
2013 – Unity at the Guildhall, Chichester
2012 – Unity Arts, Metro House, Chichester
2010 – East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair, Rye
2008 – Heather Boxall and Mike Walker, University of Cumbria, Lancaster
2006 – Curator’s Choice: Northern Contemporary Artists, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2004 – Leeds Open, Leeds City Art Gallery
2003 – Summer Exhibition: Brendan Lancaster/Mike Walker, Dragon Design, London
2002 – Manchester Academy Open Exhibition, City Art Gallery, Manchester
2002 – Yellow, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
2001 – Group Show, Wendy Levy Contemporary Art, Manchester
2001 – 250 Years of British Landscape Watercolours and Drawings, Brenau University Art Gallery, Gainsville, Georgia
2001 – Prints of View, South Square Gallery, Bradford
2000 – Yorkshire Contemporary Printmakers, York City Art Gallery

Publications

2016 – Approaching the Edge: The Paintings of Nici Bungey, Soho Revue Gallery, London
2013 – Illustrations for overcoming form: reflections on immersive music, Richard Glover and Bryn Harrison, University of Huddersfield Press
2012 – Post-Conceptual Art Practice 3, Mark Howland: Personal Space, University of Kent Press
2012 – Post-Conceptual Art Practice 2, Interview with Angus Pryor, University of Kent Press
2012 – Richard Nott: Unearthed, New Millennium Gallery, St.Ives, August 2012
2009 – Petra McCarthy: Recent Paintings, Rebecca Hossacks Gallery, online at https://www.rebeccahossack.com/