Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker (b. 1991) is a photo based artist living in Naarm on unceded sovereign landsof the Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. Her practice centres around the psychology of myth, with a keen interest in the way people regulate their mental state in relation to their belief systems, and how this manifests itself into contemporary society. Sarah completed her Bachelor of Photography (Fine Art) in 2016 at Photography Studies College in Melbourne. Walker utilises combination of found and archival imagery, as well as video and sound, as a part of her photographic practice. Walker’s work has been featured in various online publications including Paper Journal, PH Museum, Der Greif Guest-Room, Phases magazine, and The Heavy Collective, and print magazine Terra Firma. She has partaken in several exhibitions such as Second Sight, c3 art space (2018); A place you know, Junior Space, Melbourne (2017); Always-Already, Besser Gallery, Melbourne (2016). Walker had her first large scale solo show at Nishi Gallery, Canberra in late 2018. She won Australian and New Zealand Photobook of the Year award (2018) for her first photobook Second Sight published by Perimeter Editions, and published a second book Perimeter in 2019 called Pelči Manor. 

Exhibitions

2023 – On Holy Water, curator, group exhibition, Platform Arts, Geelong AUS

2023 – The Well, solo exhibition, Hillvale Gallery, Melbourne AUS

2019 – Undercurrents, a photobook exhibition curated by Melissa Catanese & Ed Panar, group show, Transformer Station, Cleveland USA

2018 – Second Sight, solo exhibition, Nishi Gallery, Canberra AUS

2018 – Infinite Sauvage, group show, Kuldīga Art House, Kuldīga LATVIA

2018 – Second Sight, solo exhibition, c3 gallery, Melbourne AUS

2017 – A Place You Know, in collaboration with Mac Lawrence, Junior Space, Melbourne AUS

2017 – Elements, group show, QV Centre, Melbourne AUS

2016 – Always-Already, group show, Besser Gallery, Melbourne AUS

2015 – Ka-pow, Ruffian Gallery, group show, Melbourne AUS

2015 – Obscura Photo Festival, group show, Whiteways Gallery, Penang MYS

2014 – Spaces, group show, The Meadow, Melbourne AUS

2014 – CCP Salon, group show, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne AUS

2014 – Glimpses, group show, Testing Grounds, Melbourne AUS

Prizes

2019 – Winner, Australia and New Zealand Photobook of the Year Award 2018

2018 – Finalist, Clip Awards, Perth Centre of Photography

2018 – Winner, Perimeter's Small Book Prize 

2017 – Finalist, Maggie Diaz Photography Prize for Women

Print Publications / Online

American Suburb X, Paper Journal, PH Museum, Der Greif (Jubilee-Issue #10, Guest-room Jorg Colberg), Terra Firma Magazine, The Heavy Collective, Phases Magazine, Photo/Foto Magazine, The Latent Image, impressa magazine.

Photobooks / Zines

2019 – Pelči Manor, published by Perimeter Editions

2018 – Second Sight, published by Perimeter Editions

2017 – A Place Both Wonderful And Strange, published by Fuego Books, Spain

2017 – American A B C D, published by Paripe Books, Spain

2015 – In The Way Things Are Seen, self published