Has worked with many museums and archives, using research, reframing and the application of the deliberate mistake to question the nature of the engagement with preserved items and texts. Uses live art, performance and different forms of intervention into the site and the object.
Julian Walker trained in London, and was selected for the New Contemporaries at the Liverpool Biennial in 1999. He was the first artist in residence at The Natural History Museum in London, in 1996, with commissions from the World Health Organisation in 2000, Wellcome Collection, the Embroiderers’ Guild, Norwich Castle, the EV&A Biennial Limerick, and the Millennium Square Greenwich.
His work has included performance, embroidery, sculpture, printmaking, collage, and the miniature. He has taught at the British Library, the University of the Arts London, the Royal College of Art, and Anglia Ruskin University, and has written widely on art and language. He now mainly works in print and collage formats, with work in exhibitions over recent months in the UK, Ukraine, Tatarstan, Catalonia, Albania and Argentina.