Julian Walker presents small objects meticulously. The unexpected implications of items not normally considered worthy of serious attention are brought to light in his careful, almost obsessional organisation of things. He collects hidden histories and relationships, placing them within the conventional formats of museum display. Each work is a site-specific archaeological investigation, where disturbing or poetic elements are allowed to surface. (From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence.
Artist's statement:
'For Liverpool, I have considered the warehouse in terms of its role in creating the wealth of the city and what this wealth created and what happened to it. The City Museums acquired the collections of the first Earl of Derby in 1851 and Joseph Mayer in 1867. From the Shell Guide to England, 1970 "Liverpool, became famous for its ivories, gold and jewelry (sic), plant collections, fossils and the Derby collection of birds. The original museum building perished in May 1941, with valuable material'. I would like to research the identity of the lost material. I feel there is an element of these objects being brought together by the destructive experience they were subjected to, as if this extreme event made a single entity out of what was previously separated by taxonomy.'
[LESS]Julian Walker presents small objects meticulously. The unexpected implications of items not normally considered worthy of serious attention are brought to light in his careful, almost obsessional organisation of things. He collects hidden histories and relationships, placing them within the conventional formats of museum display. Each work is a site-specific archaeological investigation, where disturbing or poetic elements are allowed to surface. (From a series of conversations held at different times between Keith Tyson, Sacha Craddock and Simon Morrissey and between Susan Hiller, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence.
Artist's statement:
'For Liverpool, I have considered the warehouse in terms of its role in creating the wealth of the city and what this wealth created and what happened to it. The City Museums acquired the collections of the first Earl of Derby in 1851 and Joseph Mayer in 1867. From the Shell Guide to England, 1970 "Liverpool, became famous for its ivories, gold and jewelry (sic), plant collections, fossils and the Derby collection of birds. The original museum building perished in May 1941, with valuable material'. I would like to research the identity of the lost material. I feel there is an element of these objects being brought together by the destructive experience they were subjected to, as if this extreme event made a single entity out of what was previously separated by taxonomy.'
