The Telling of Real People’s Lives

FRIEZE 17 // Caroline Walker

Over the past ten years Caroline Walker (b.1982) has become well known for her paintings of women, specifically, women at work in all manner of circumstances from the domestic scenarios of her own lived experience to more detached encounters in shops, cafés, offices and hotels. There’s a lineage here that...

Caroline Walker (British, b. 1982), Pool Side, 2017. Oil on board, 43 x 35 cm.

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Depicting her sister-in-law with her newborn baby, Caroline Walker captures a more truthful expression of motherhood filled with both joy and loneliness.

“I’m often thinking about how paintings position you as a viewer.” Caroline Walker’s enigmatic, quietly unnerving paintings hint at silent narratives without giving away the game. Women are her subjects, seen from afar in modern houses, nail bars, hotels or hospital beds, as we become passive voyeurs into their daily lives. Much like the 20th...

“I’m often thinking about how paintings position you as a viewer.” Caroline Walker’s enigmatic, quietly unnerving paintings hint at silent narratives without giving away the game. Women are her subjects, seen from afar in modern houses, nail bars, hotels or hospital beds, as we become passive voyeurs into their daily lives. Much like the 20th...

Despite being largely written out of history, these 8 women artists of the Bauhaus School created some of the most defining works of the movement.