Stephen Walter

Born (1975) in London, Stephen Walter's practice is born out of a fascination with the vast and detailed complexities of our world and the configurations that cultures construct within nature. He investigates the topography of our environment, and the semiotic and visual languages that form our understandings. Obsessive mark making and repetitive processes merge with ideas of the micro and the macrocosm, where mass and graphic density form routes towards the sublime.

Stephen's cartographic works of both real and fictional places are a tangle of words, symbols, and the gathering of information. They record the significance of place, and the physical, cultural and epistemic remnants that inhabit certain locations. They also celebrate the glory of maps and the act of exploration itself through slow art using basic materials. The joy of navigation and the recording of new places and ideas form a springboard for his projects, many of which require extensive research and years to produce.

Having worked predominantly on two-dimensional pieces through forms of drawing and printmaking in the past, Stephen has recently started to utilise other mediums that extend into painting, photography, collage/montage, animation, sculpture, digital applications as well as various printmaking processes.