Corban walker biography

Corban Walker was.
Educated by the Jesuits at Gonzaga College, Walker studied for a degree in sculpture at NCAD, 1987–92.
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Corban Walker

In 2012, Lismore Castle Arts presented a series of works, which had been included in the Irish Pavilion at the 54^th Venice Biennale. Works were presented at St Carthage Hall, following a 3-month exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy.

Corban Walker (1967), born in Dublin and now living in New York, was chosen to represent Ireland at the 54th Venice Biennale, which ran from June to November 2011. Working with the Emily-Jane Kirwan (Commissioner) and Eamonn Maxwell (Curator), Walker presented 3 new works at the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, close to the iconic Piazza San Marco in the heart of Venice.

Walker is known for his sculptures and installations relating to architectural scale and spatial perception and utilising industrial materials like steel, aluminium, and glass. At the height of four-feet tall, the artist’s personal relationship between self and the built environment is fundamental to the way he defines and develops his work.

The works at the Pavilion interacted with the historic architecture of the Pietà and were all, in some way, transparen

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Corban Walker (b. 1967, Dublin, Ireland) is known for his installations, sculptures, and drawings that relate to perceptions of scale and architectural constructs. His local, cultural, and specific philosophies of scale are fundamental to how he defines and develops his work, creating new means for viewers to interact and navigate their surroundings.

Since graduating with honors from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, with a degree in Fine Art Sculpture in 1992, Walker has employed various mediums, at times painting and drawing, creating site-specific installations and using photography or digital art, to convey his ideas. Walker’s first solo show was held at the City Arts Centre in Dublin, Ireland in 1994. Since then, he has mounted solo exhibitions in England, France, Chicago and New York and has realized eight public commissions for important institutions such as the Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Dublin and Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd, Tokyo. In 1996, the artist represented Ireland in L’Imaginaire Irlandais Festival, in Poitiers, Franc

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Artist Biography: Corban Walker

These biographies are excerpted from Art and Architecture of Ireland Volume III: Sculpture 1600-2000, edited by Andrew Carpenter and Paula Murphy and published by the Royal Irish Academy.

WALKER, CORBAN (b. 1967).

By Paula Murphy

While still a student at NCAD, in 1989, Corban Walker showed Tiny Big Man at Sculpture in Context (qv) in Fernhill Gardens, Dublin. The work, a tiny figure surmounting a tall narrow plinth, addressed the issue of scale, and not without a degree of humour. In the following year, at the NCAD degree show, his Please be Seated (UCD) [312], a gigantic wooden chair, was intended ‘to open people’s eyes’ to the way in which the world is ordered to human scale, on the assumption that the average male height is six feet (IT, 16 June 1990). In his early practice, Walker was exploring overtly the relationship between himself – he is approximately four-feet tall – and the built environment. In his first solo show, Latitude, at City Arts Centre in 1994, which comprised sculpture and draw