Caroline Walker, Illuminations, 2012, oil on linen, 240 x 305 cm (© the artist)
Emily Spicer interviews painter Caroline Walker.
Walker comments: "My work definitely engages with that history of painting women, which has largely cast the male artist as the portrayer of the female realm. I suppose I’m revisiting that, but through a female gaze. And I’m interested in whether the knowledge that something has been painted by a woman might change the way you feel about what you are looking at, or challenge your assumptions about a relationship between artist and model. There are a couple of paintings of mine in an exhibition of figurative painting in the Czech Republic at the moment that address this subject directly."
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