Maria Walker
London, UK
Maria Walker’s fine art practice is centred around her interest in embodiment and the experience being human. She explores the human body and everyday life through her abstract sculptural works and installations made from a wide variety of materials and objects.
Her engagement with materials and the process of making is an integral aspect of her practice and it is often through the body’s interaction with the materials that her ideas start to take actual form. She has always been drawn to working with cloth, garments and thread due to the close affinity they have to the human body and often combines textile sculptures with objects.
This relationship has long been a recurring aspect of her work, especially tactile processes such as hand stitching, wrapping and binding. More recently she has started to apply textile techniques and technologies to other materials which she carefully selects to create abstract sculptural forms which still reference the textile tradition.
Photographs: by the artist