Barbara Walker elected a Royal Academician

Barbara Walker MBE (b. 1964) Vanishing Point 13 (Veronese), 2020. Courtesy of Jerwood Collection © The Artist

Jerwood Collection are delighted that Barbara Walker has recently been elected to the Royal Academy of Arts.

Barbara Walker was born in Birmingham, England, in 1964. She studied at the University of Central England, Birmingham, and completed post-graduate studies at Wolverhampton University. She lives and works in Birmingham. Her work is informed by the social, political and cultural realities that affect her life and the lives of those around her. Growing up in Birmingham, her experiences have directly shaped a practice concerned with issues of class and power, gender, race, representation and belonging. Her figurative drawings and paintings tell contemporary stories hinged on historical circumstances, making them universally understood and reflecting a human perspective on the state of affairs in her native Britain and elsewhere.