27 November 2025
There's an interview with Richard Walker around the time of his 2012 exhibition House Paintings where he talks about the process of making the work in the show during a residency at The Haining house in Selkirk:
I started to light the rooms with a projector and lamps, to create shapes, or to obscure things, And another aspect was that I’m often thinking how to use photography, or what the relationship is in my work to photography; using photographs as light rather than a printed image is interesting. I had photographs of the landscape around the house and I started projecting those into the dark rooms. So I was shutting it out, but putting it back in, in another way. And then I began even taking photos of the interiors and projecting them back on to themselves with maybe a slight shift in alignment.
Have been thinking about this a lot on the heels of what I mentioned in my last post here about finding myself being drawn to reflections recently. I think Walker gets at what I have been beginning to attempt to articulate, which is a desire to find a way to work from deeply attentive and faithful observation while still considering a fracturing and fragmentation of perception in the process.