The long-distance relationship
Carly Walker
400mm x 300mm /
Painting
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Once a year you buy the whole family new swimmers, dig your beach toys out from the back of the shed, ask the neighbour to feed the chooks, and do the long drive to your favourite beach holiday spot. The starkly different environment provides a brief reprieve from your rural reality, but just as your farmer‘s socks have started to fade it’s time to take your new shell collection home and add them to the jar on the shelf where they will remind you of that distant paradise… until next year.
Curator’s Comment
A contemporary, illustrative style is prominent within this work, and the depiction of the clothing and visual adornment through inversion of colours is visually strong. The flat fields of colour work well in this context, and you could consider further leveraging this approach in future. Your artwork statement bolsters the story you seek to convey, and it is interesting to note that you have chosen to depict a departure from your rural reality.
About the artist
Carly Walker is a graphic designer by day, so her medium is usually digital, but she also enjoys the calming, meditative practice of creating with her hands. This includes anything from painting, DIY, macrame, gardening, sewing and jewellery making.