In 2025, The Hepworth Wakefield (UK) will present a solo exhibition of Caroline Walker's works, featuring paintings made over the last five years alongside a new series of works exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care. Caroline Walker: Mothering opens this autumn on 17 May 2025 and runs until 27 October 2025.
Known for her intimate portrayals of women in everyday settings, Walker invites viewers to follow her gaze, deep into spaces otherwise overlooked. Exploring facets of contemporary motherhood and boundaries between public and private, the London-based artist is well known for her large canvases and intricate panels. Often depicting the silent world of women's work through normal rituals like cleaning the sink, making fishcakes and watering the garden, Walker builds a visual social commentary on the role of female identity and it's depiction across different socio-economic contexts.
Her new paintings will explore themes of motherhood detailed in moments of childcare, domestic routine and the medical rigmarole of modern birth. This newly commissioned series will be shown alongside previous works, captured with Walker's careful attention to colours, textures and tones, she encourages us to contemplate a different view of maternal connection, familial nurture and the legacy of care that ties itself to modern motherhood.
The Hepworth Wakefield is an award-winning art gallery in the heart of Yorkshire (UK), named after Barbara Hepworth, one of the most important artists of the 20th century who was born and raised in Wakefield. Designed by the acclaimed David Chipperfield Architects, the gallery has presented major exhibitions of the best international modern and contemporary art since its opening in 2011.
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