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About

In Close Proximity is a vessel in which to record and showcase the works of K Walker. Walker (b.1997) combines the mediums of fashion, drawing, paint, performance, costume, poetry and sculpture. Their work focuses heavily on the themes of queerness, bodies, mythology, dysphoria, illness and sensuality. 

Born and raised in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Walker studied a foundation course at Leeds Arts University in 2015 before studying BA  fashion design in London, graduating in 2019. Walker is currently based at FiiK Studios in Leeds and is a founding member of the artist-led collective LAX.

Walker's most recent work aims to combine mediums of their practise to create art viewers can interact, escape and dream within. Their work often uses fantasy, nonsensical, humorous and grotesque imagery to personify themselves, their body, emotions and interactions with others. 

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Shows:

Solo:

'No Ordinary Love'

27th June - 13th July 2025

FiiK Studios, Leeds

'Shrine to The Other Woman'

25th - 27th November 2022

SCREW Gallery, Leeds

'I'M SCARED OF CHOCOLATE BARS'

12th May - 15th June 2022

Village Books, Leeds

'TREEHUGGERS'

25th February 2022

Archive, Leeds

Group:

Portals

23rd - 27th October 2024

Gasleak Mountain, Nottingham

Touch me (I'm trying)

9th - 16th August 2024

serf, Leeds 

'Hacienda 2'

14th March 2024

West Art Collective HQ, Antwerp Mansion, Manchester

'Contested Bodies: After Hours'

25th January 2024 

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds

'Total Recall: Myth & Memory'

13th July - 15th October 2023

Mercer Gallery, Harrogate

'Leeds Artists Show 2023'

15th February - 30th April 2023

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds

Media:

'If I close my eyes long enough I can be something else'

2023, Zine, self published.

 

'I'M SCARED OF CHOCOLATE BARS'

2022, Zine, self published. Accompaniment to show of same name.

'Ivan, Prevail!'

2021, Zine, self published.

K Walker studio visit with Yorkshire Sculpture International, filmed in 2023.

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