Eric Walker CV

 

 

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Vanguard Review, A Brief History, Eye Level Gallery 1986 by Donna Smyth

 

The Triumph of Rural Electrification c. 1984 and I’ll Dance With Anyone She Said, Even the Devil, c.1984, both private collection, Halifax. Two early painted constructions probably shown at Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, c. 1984.

 

The Triumph of Rural Electrification is related to my Antigonish works. A small, mostly lost series. I spent a week at the Coady Institute of Saint Francis Xavier University c. 1984 in Antigonish researching the Antigonish Co-op Movement with a particular interest in Moses Coady and Jimmy Thompkins. This work tries to covey the optimism of the Antigonish Movement. It is composed from tarpaper, vinyl, yellow insulation material and burlap potato sack on wood.

I’ll Dance With Anyone She Said, Even the Devil Is related to an earlier body of work influenced by Helen Creighton’s Nova Scotian folklore books. The image is a rendering of a common folklore theme, that of a girl wishing to have a partner at the local dance, who then discovers the handsome young gentleman she meets is in fact the Devil. The story is always given away by the girl discovering the handsome young man has cloven feet. The setting is a lonely field in the Annapolis Valley. The work is constructed from carpet, vinyl and paint, on wood.

Not A Still Life, Ottawa Sun, February 4, 1997

 The work on the wall is Fast New Steamer to America, collection Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Ottawa Citizen July 30, 2011

 A pleasant dip into the archive, me and Blackie, doing media for a show at the Cube, here in Ottawa.

Everest, 2025, 4:37, experimental boxing documentary, screened at Antimatter, Victoria B.C., October 23, 2025, photo by Dave Johnson

Everest is an experimental boxing documentary. The work is structured as a series of four fights. The fights are introduced by a commentator, followed by a spotlight on boxers, then three or four bouts until finally, Everest, the fight of the century. The work is constructed from a found black and white 16mm, non-theatrical circulating film from the 1940’s? An 800 ft. film with a cartoon, girl singer and three short documentary subjects which might have been shown in pre-television days in a community hall. The fight segment of the film was cut into one-foot sections which were scraped, scratched, misted and splattered, imagery of boxing injury, then reassembled with a commentator, the girl singer from the first film segment and cut together out of sequence in a rhythmic way to make an experimental boxing documentary.

The Hurricane Fiona set, four works, 2025

The Hurricane Fiona set. 

1) Fiona Over Water, 58 x 58 cms, oil painting on plywood, 2) Fiona Sable Island 1, 31 x 34 cms, painted construction, oil paint and metal on plywood, 3) Fiona Sable Island 2, 31 x 34 cms, painted construction, oil paint and metal on plywood, 4) Fiona Sable Island 3, 31 x 34 cms painted construction, oil paint, metal, screen mesh and roofing shingle on plywood.