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GILES WALKER

Kinetic sculpture

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    Giles Walker has been building sculpture for the last 27 years.

As a full-time member of the guerrilla-art group, The Mutoid Waste Company, he started building sculptures from materials found in scrapyards as the collective traveled around Europe.

In the mid-nineties, he introduced basic motors into his sculptures and his work became kinetic. He plays with the relationship between technology and the human being and the ever-dissolving boundary that separates man from machine. His ‘machines’ often allude to the underbelly of the human obsession with increased technology; the displaced and redundant.

In recent years, Giles has been working with collage. He sees the medium as having a direct link to his roots in scrap art.

Giles has exhibited his work in many different countries around the world, including Japan, USA, Russia, and Ukraine. His solo shows have involved large kinetic, immersive, installations and have received great acclaim.

KEN RUSSEL once wrote a review for The Times declaring: "Giles Walker is a master sculptor and a genius”

In 2017 Giles was asked to exhibit his piece ‘THE LAST SUPPER' for six months at THE LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUM.
In July 2018, THE BRITISH MUSEUM bought a collage, 'Commonwealth'  by Giles to join the museum's permanent collection.

Giles spent 3 years building his most ambitious animatronic installation piece yet, 'MONSTER'.  In late 2020, he exhibited this work, despite the recent Covid 19 pandemic, at The Truman Stables in Shoreditch, London. It was a huge success and was nominated as one of the top 5 London exhibitions of the week.

He is currently working on a new show to be exhibited in 2024.

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