Elizabeth Walker, a recent BA (Hons) Fine Art graduate from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB), has been chosen from hundreds of submissions to be exhibited in the prestigious Graduate Art Show this year.
Showing in both London’s Woolff Gallery and Salisbury’s Vanner Gallery, the Graduate Art Show offers graduate artists a vital platform at the start of their careers. Transitioning from art school to the professional world can be challenging, and this initiative, founded by Victoria Charlton and Professor Anand Saggar, aims to bridge that gap.
From hundreds of entries, 30 artists were selected to exhibit their work, including Elizabeth’s Constelaciones Heredadas, an acrylic ink and oil paint on canvas that captures figures in a domestic scene within a family setting.
Elizabeth’s work explores diaspora, immigration, and memory, showing how despite moving away from a native land, people inherit their ancestors’ experiences through stories and photographs, as if they were their own.
Inspired by family photographs of her great-grandmother and grandmother in Mexico, Elizabeth’s work relates to her experience of growing up mixed-race with family split across Mexico and Northern Ireland.
The exhibitions run for three weeks at Woolff Gallery in London and four weeks at Vanner Gallery in Salisbury, with the The Vanner Gallery exhibition opening on the 22 October and running until 22 November.
Vanner Gallery Director David Christie says, “The graduate show is now an established highlight in our programme.
“It’s so exciting to exhibit students for the first time and to offer such a cross-section of work and styles in Salisbury. It would be impossible to visit all the individual graduate shows at the schools themselves, so this is a unique opportunity to see so much new work from across the country in one place.”
For more information, visit The Graduate Art Show's website.
