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Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich
(Walker b. Scotland & Bromwich b. England; both live and work in Berwick upon Tweed, England.)
COMMISSIONED BY Blue Oyster Art Project Space
Walker & Bromwich, Love Cannon, 2006
Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich work both collaboratively and as individuals. Their combined practice — which reaches across gallery-based installation, digital works, and public interventions — explores the space between real and imagined locations, drawing on the unique atmosphere of specific geographical locations and populations through a wide variety of media. From works such as My Island Home (commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2000), which consisted of the artists sailing a 38 person life raft modelled as a Scottish Island down the River Thames in London, to their commission for the cross-media project T.V. Swansong (2003), in which via digital video broadcast, both artists undertake separate journeys in search of their individual home landscapes as seen through childhood television of the time. Increasingly the work of Walker & Bromwich deals with notions of the socially-engaged, with their work positioned in spaces ranging from forests, hospitals, a remote youth and community centre, broadcasting via the internet, as well as the more traditional public space of a city plaza.
Walker & Bromwich primarily work through the structures of artist residencies and commissioned projects. Recent projects include Love Canon, Les Ateliers des Arques, France (2006), Friendly Frontier, Habitat, London (2005), Sci-Fi Hot Tub Kielder Forest, Scottland (2003), How the Universe Sang Itself into Being, Essex (2004), In Search of a Small Planet, The Baltic, Newcastle; TATE, Liverpool (2002), Portable Paradise, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2001), Somewhere Special, Houldsworth Gallery London (2001) and My Island Home, Victoria and Albert Museum (2000).
Zoe Walker was born in Gartocharn, Scotland and Neil Bromwich in Lincolnshire, England and they both live and work in Berwick upon Tweed, England.
One day sculpture project details to follow.
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