Julian Walker - Dark Harbour, The Excursion
£1.50
Includes a printed work on found photograph. Installed in Special Dispensations in June 2022.
Dark Harbour developed as a project resulting from disappointment. Failing, through hesitation, to buy an artwork, I set about recreating, from memory, what I wanted from the lost work. A compositional structure became established, together with a field of verbal imaginings and allusions, which have been taken across a range of media, collage, stitch, printmaking, sculpture and drawing. It quickly became apparent that Dark Harbour was creating more by its absence than by its still missed presence, a nostalgia for something that never was. Dark Harbour is about wanting something that is not what I wanted it to be, about the space of disappointment and wanting, and the compensations and comforts of loss. It is all the places I have felt comfortable of being wary of, and those places that I have felt wary of being comfortable with.
Dark Harbour developed as a project resulting from disappointment. Failing, through hesitation, to buy an artwork, I set about recreating, from memory, what I wanted from the lost work. A compositional structure became established, together with a field of verbal imaginings and allusions, which have been taken across a range of media, collage, stitch, printmaking, sculpture and drawing. It quickly became apparent that Dark Harbour was creating more by its absence than by its still missed presence, a nostalgia for something that never was. Dark Harbour is about wanting something that is not what I wanted it to be, about the space of disappointment and wanting, and the compensations and comforts of loss. It is all the places I have felt comfortable of being wary of, and those places that I have felt wary of being comfortable with.
