Oil on panel, 50cm x 60cm
Finalist in the Darling Portrait Prize 2020 at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2021 Semi Finalist
Oil on Panel, 63cm x 63cm
Sarah Walker’s art and writing deals with her own human condition and her mental and physical experience in the world. The openness and self reflection she conveys is potent and radical in its honesty about anxiety, death, as well as the functioning and malfunctioning body and mind. These states of being are are shrouded in mystery and her ability to wade through their significant impact on her life with a succinct and thoughtful dose of self directed humour is astounding. Her writing is of this time we are in.
Surrender is a portrait in response to Sarah’s award winning collection of essays The First Time I Thought I Was Dying (Quentin Bryce Award, UQP 2021). Sarah wears a shroud, symbolic of mystery, protection or death. She keeps one eye open in a vain attempt keep control over her existence - and one eye closed in a surrender to life’s inevitabilities.
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
John Leslie Art Prize, 2018
Gippsland Art Gallery
Oil on canvas, 100cm x 100cm
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Finalist 2014
Gouache and watercolour on paper, 30cm x 40cm
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Semi-Finalist 2015
Oil on canvas, 60cm x 60cm
Oil on panel, 90cm x 120cm
Oil on panel, 90cm x 120cm