Artist Statement/ Biography

Justine Walker is an interdisciplinary artist, interested in feminine subjectivity. Exploring the lengths we go to, changing and molding ourselves, into something else to satisfy what others – family, friends, society – expect of us. Using repetition, performance and lived experience to produce video and photographic works that are performative in nature, with themes of longing, loss, acceptance, and family.

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Justine Walker (she/her) lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand. She has an MFA from Massey University, NZ (2010) and was awarded Massey Scholar. Her work is featured on CIRCUIT! Artist Film and Video, Aotearoa, NZ. Walker was included in CURRANTS, by Barbara Zucker, at A.I.R Gallery, New York and has had solo shows at FELTspace, Adelaide, and SEVENTH, Melbourne. NZ Public gallery shows have included solo exhibitions at Toi Tauranga Art Gallery, Toi Poneke Gallery, and group shows at Whakatane Museum & Arts, and City Gallery Wellington. She has been included in numerus group shows in Artist Run galleries throughout NZ, with solo exhibitions at Blue Oyster, and Art Box. Her work is held in public and private collections including Nga Taonga Sound & Vision, NZ. < BACK