SARAH WALKER The Well

The notion of The Well is rich in metaphorical and symbolic potential for Melbourne-based artist Sarah Walker. Doubling as the title for her third book for Perimeter Editions, the idea serves as a site of foreboding, reflection and renewal – a place where currents of past, present, and future purl and fold. The project’s formative images emerged out of a period of great solitude and personal upheaval for Walker, who describes these early gestures as a private series of ‘contemplations on love, heartbreak, grief, family, and uncertainty’. She had no plans to show the images; they existed as mere studies of a time and… Read more

The notion of The Well is rich in metaphorical and symbolic potential for Melbourne-based artist Sarah Walker. Doubling as the title for her third book for Perimeter Editions, the idea serves as a site of foreboding, reflection and renewal – a place where currents of past, present, and future purl and fold.

The project’s formative images emerged out of a period of great solitude and personal upheaval for Walker, who describes these early gestures as a private series of ‘contemplations on love, heartbreak, grief, family, and uncertainty’. She had no plans to show the images; they existed as mere studies of a time and personal state. It was only after visiting a psychic – an exercise in breaking out of a rut – that things began to shift. 

Blurring the lines between history, personal experience and potential futures, Walker reimagines the visual languages of family, friendship and landscape through the lens of the sacred and dreamlike. Reflective at its very core, The Well is a book of soft premonitions.

 

176 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm, softcover with coptic and taped spine, Perimeter Editions (Melbourne).