Una Walker
Curriculum Vitae
Recent digital works
Interface 1&2, video installation. Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Sep/Oct 2002
Memory, audio work. Broadcasts: RADIOTOPIA, Ars Electronica, Austria, 2002
Blackbox Recorder FM, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
The Depot, 18min video documentary, Routes Festival, spring 2002.
Reliquary, CD ROM, commissioned by Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London. 2000
Prototype, website documenting work made for Another Space , Scotland. Collaboration with Andy Stenhouse. 2000.
Metaphor is the Key, website. InIVA x-space commission. Collaboration with Peter Richards. 2000
Residencies
2001 - 2002
Artist in Residence
Monaghan Town, Rep of Ireland
2001 - 2002
Routes Project
Artist in Residence
Downpatrick Bus Depot. Littoral/AT&GWU/Translink
2001
Cyfuniad International Workshop
Triangle Trust, Wales
2001
Labculture 2 , interdisciplinary new media workshop.
Sway, England
1998
NIHE Art in Housing project,
Andersonstown, Belfast
1998
Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland
1997
NIFCA - Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Suomenlina, Finland
1994
ArtWorks Wales, Bangor, North Wales
1993
Vermont Studio Centre, USA
Commissions
2000
Metaphor is the Key, X-Space Commission for website, collaboration with Peter Richards, inIVA (Institute of International Visual Arts), London
1999
Prototype, installation commissioned by Another Space Ltd. for the Hangar, Deephaven, Scotland as part of Gernika! and touring to Guipuzioa, Pamplona and Gernika , 2000-1
1998
Naming of Parts, installation (collaboration) for ELIA (European League of Institutes for the Arts) Conference, Helsinki
1995
Anna Livia, drawings commissioned by Aer Rianta for the VIP lounge in Dublin Airport
1994
Displacement and Change, installation for Bangor Cathedral North Wales, commissioned by Artworks Wales
1991
Reburying the Bones of Ancestors, installation, Co Clare, commissioned for Sculpture on the Shannon
1990
Fragments, installation commissioned for the departure lounge, Dublin Airport
Peace and Plenty, temporary public artwork commissioned for the exterior of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2001- 2001
The Ghost in the Machine - 2001, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast
1998
Elliptical Narratives and Circular Journeys, The Atrium, Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin
1997
Language and Silence. Crawford Gallery, Cork
1994-1995
Past Tense, Present Tense, works on paper touring to 9 venues in Ireland
1994
The Ghost in the Machine, Limerick City Gallery
To Every Cow Its Calf, Context Gallery Derry
1993
From the Attic of the Empire, Galerie CAOC, Berlin, Germany
1992
Patterns of Survival, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
1988-1989
The Ties That Bind - a series of five related installations in different locations in Ireland : the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan; Triskle Arts Centre, Cork; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Austin's shop window, Derry; and Audleystown, Down.
1987
Journey to a Far Country, AIR Gallery, London
1985
At the Back of the North Wind, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
1984
A Year and a Day, Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
1982
Finite and Bounded, Art and Research Exchange, Belfast
Selected Group Exhibitions
2000
Troubled, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London. (Reliquary 2000, installation)
2000
x-space, inIVA, London. (Metaphor is the Key, Website)
1999
Gernika! The Hangar, Deephaven, Scotland (Prototype, installation)
1997
Editionen Und Multiples Irischer Kunstler, Galerie CAOC, Berlin, Germany
1996
Ireland/Iceland Exchange, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
1995
Ireland/Iceland Exchange, Kopavogur Art Museum, Iceland
1991
Parable Island, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Espace, European Sculpture Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin
1989
Art Beyond Boundries, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin
1988
Ulster Art in the Eighties, RHA Gallery, Dublin
1986
Women on Women, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Irish Art Now, Antichi Chiostri, Turin, Italy
1985
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
Awards and Bursaries
Arts Council of Northern Ireland : 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000.
Arts Council of Ireland: 1986, 1988, 1994
Irish Department of Foreign Affairs: 1993, 1995
British Council: 1993, 1997
USA Information Agency: 1993
Catalogues
Elliptical Narratives and Circular Journeys, Una Walker, Four Fields Press, 1998
Ireland/Iceland Exchange, Ormeau Baths Gallery, 1996
FIS, Temple Bar Gallery, 1996
Crossroads Symposium Catalogue, Roscommon , 1995
Past Tense, Present Tense: Works on paper, Una Walker, Dr Slavka Sverakova, Down Arts Centre, 1994
Patterns of Survival, Una Walker, Sara Selwood, Arts Council Gallery, 1992 Espace, RHA/ SSI, Dublin, 1991
Sculpture on the Shannon, Cratlow Woods House, 1991
Parable Island, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 1991
Art Beyond Boundries, WAAG, Dublin, 1989
Una Walker, The Ties That Bind, Orchard Gallery, Derry, 1988
Ulster Art in the Eighties, Fenderesky Gallery/RHA, Dublin 1988
Women on Women, Fenderesky gallery, 1986
Eight Week, Eight Works, Art and Research Exchange, Belfast 1982
Selected Bibliography
Thinking Long, Liam Kelly, Gandon Press, 1996
Art, Politics and Ireland, Brian McAvera, Open Air Press, 1989
Irish Women Artists, National Gallery of Ireland, 1987
Published Writing
Elliptical Narratives, Part 2. (Article) European Journal of Art Education, Issue 2, Amsterdam July 1999
Public Art in Belfast (Report) VAANI, Belfast 1998
The Survival of the Artist: How Visual Artists Live and Work (Document of reference) UNESCO, Paris 1997
From 1982 to the present : numerous articles, mainly related to artists' working environment and international developments in this area, published in Art Bulletin, Artists Newsletter, Circa etc.
Additional Information
1999-2001
Speaker for the European Network of Visual Artists (EVAN)
1995-98
Chairperson of the Artists Association of Ireland
1995-97
President of the International Association of Artists
1998-2002
Member of the Laganside Public Art Advisory panel
Keynote speaker, ELIA Conference The Artist as Communicator in the Third Millennium. Helsinki, Nov 1998
Co-chair of the Agora session Shaping Histories, Imagining Futures, UNESCO Intergovernmental Conference, Stockholm, March 1998
Member of the organising group for the UNESCO World Congress on the Status of the Artist Sep 1996 - June 1997