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Biography
Lily Walker
Lily Walker is a figurative painter working primarily in oil. Her practice explores intimacycloseness, and value through seemingly ordinary subject matter, attending to the quiet oddities of everyday life with care and sustained attention. Recent paintings offer glimpses of her immediate environment—friends, family, and passing moments held within close relationships. Through the act of painting, these fleeting experiences are transformed into lasting works. For Walker, the slow, careful application of paint becomes a prolonged act of consideration and translation, connecting intimate experiences with broader social worlds.
Her paintings are derived from candid photographs that are not taken with the intention of becoming paintings, but instead simply record daily life. These images are later filtered and reworked—cropped, reordered, and examined for photographic oddities that suggest new compositions. Translating photographs into oil paint mirrors the layered connections between the external world and internal experience. Hyper-specific yet open-ended, Walker’s paintings seek a broader intimacy: inviting viewers to slow down, find familiarity within the scenes, and reflect on their own environments and relationships. While the works are produced through an intensely personal and private process, Walker places strong value on returning them to public space, where these moments can be shared and re-encountered.
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Works
Parkdale Beach 2025, oil on canvas, 89 x 112 cm
Flinders Prawns 2025. Oil on Canvas. 64x80cm
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