Untitled (Boulder) Jake Walker Jake Walker - Untitled (Boulder)
Untitled (Boulder) 2023–2024
oil on canvas, glazed stoneware
45 x 45 x 10 cm
$7,800  ENQUIRE
Untitled (Boulder)Jake WalkerUntitled (Boulder)
Untitled (Boulder)2023–2024
oil on canvas, glazed stoneware
45 x 45 x 10 cm
$7,800  ENQUIRE
That Green Jake Walker Jake Walker - That Green
That Green 2024
oil on polycotton, earthenware
42 x 43 x 4 cm
SOLD 
That GreenJake WalkerThat Green
That Green2024
oil on polycotton, earthenware
42 x 43 x 4 cm
SOLD 
Bubbles Jake Walker - Bubbles
Bubbles 2024–2025
oil on polycotton glazed stoneware
55 x 48 x 5 cm
$8,100  ENQUIRE
BubblesBubbles
Bubbles2024–2025
oil on polycotton glazed stoneware
55 x 48 x 5 cm
$8,100  ENQUIRE
28.2.25 (spiraling) Jake Walker Jake Walker - 28.2.25 (spiraling)
28.2.25 (spiraling) 2024–2025
oil and wax on linen, glazed earthenware
46 x 46 x 5 cm
$7,800  ENQUIRE
28.2.25 (spiraling)Jake Walker28.2.25 (spiraling)
28.2.25 (spiraling)2024–2025
oil and wax on linen, glazed earthenware
46 x 46 x 5 cm
$7,800  ENQUIRE
After School Jake Walker Jake Walker - After School
After School 2024
oil on polycotton, glaze oxide, stoneware
44 x 41 x 4 cm
$7,500  ENQUIRE
After SchoolJake WalkerAfter School
After School2024
oil on polycotton, glaze oxide, stoneware
44 x 41 x 4 cm
$7,500  ENQUIRE
Jade Jake Walker Jake Walker - Jade
Jade 2024
acrylic on polycotton, glazed stoneware
44 x 47 x 12 cm
$8,000  ENQUIRE
JadeJake WalkerJade
Jade2024
acrylic on polycotton, glazed stoneware
44 x 47 x 12 cm
$8,000  ENQUIRE
Unusual Architecture Jake Walker Jake Walker - Unusual Architecture
Unusual Architecture 2024–2025
oil on linen
41 x 38 x 5 cm
$7,000  ENQUIRE
Unusual ArchitectureJake WalkerUnusual Architecture
Unusual Architecture2024–2025
oil on linen
41 x 38 x 5 cm
$7,000  ENQUIRE
Night Pipes Jake Walker Jake Walker - Night Pipes
Night Pipes 2025
oil and oil stick on linen glazed stoneware
39 x 48 x 4 cm
$7,300  ENQUIRE
Night PipesJake WalkerNight Pipes
Night Pipes2025
oil and oil stick on linen glazed stoneware
39 x 48 x 4 cm
$7,300  ENQUIRE
Billabong Jake Walker Jake Walker - Billabong
Billabong 2025
oil on linen, oxide, stoneware
45 x 40 x 4 cm
$7,300  ENQUIRE
BillabongJake WalkerBillabong
Billabong2025
oil on linen, oxide, stoneware
45 x 40 x 4 cm
$7,300  ENQUIRE
I See a Landscape Jake Walker Jake Walker - I See a Landscape
I See a Landscape 2025
oil on linen, glazed stoneware
72 x 41 x 12 cm
$8,800  ENQUIRE
I See a LandscapeJake WalkerI See a Landscape
I See a Landscape2025
oil on linen, glazed stoneware
72 x 41 x 12 cm
$8,800  ENQUIRE
Obscured by Bottles Jake Walker Jake Walker - Obscured by Bottles
Obscured by Bottles 2025
oil and pigment stick on linen, glazed stoneware
40 x 50 x 4 cm
SOLD 
Obscured by BottlesJake WalkerObscured by Bottles
Obscured by Bottles2025
oil and pigment stick on linen, glazed stoneware
40 x 50 x 4 cm
SOLD 
Setting Sun Horokiwi Jake Walker Jake Walker - Setting Sun Horokiwi
Setting Sun Horokiwi 2024
oil on linen
45 x 42 x 4 cm
$7,500  ENQUIRE
Setting Sun HorokiwiJake WalkerSetting Sun Horokiwi
Setting Sun Horokiwi2024
oil on linen
45 x 42 x 4 cm
$7,500  ENQUIRE
Cubist Still Life Jake Walker Jake Walker - Cubist Still Life
Cubist Still Life 2025
oil and pigment stick on linen
45 x 56 cm
$4,700  ENQUIRE
Cubist Still LifeJake WalkerCubist Still Life
Cubist Still Life2025
oil and pigment stick on linen
45 x 56 cm
$4,700  ENQUIRE
Future Wave Jake Walker Jake Walker - Future Wave
Future Wave 2025
oil and pigment stick on linen
66 x 71 cm
SOLD 
Future WaveJake WalkerFuture Wave
Future Wave2025
oil and pigment stick on linen
66 x 71 cm
SOLD 
Bottle With Tunnel Jake Walker Jake Walker - Bottle With Tunnel
Bottle With Tunnel 2025
oil on polycotton
42 x 51 cm
$4,500  ENQUIRE
Bottle With TunnelJake WalkerBottle With Tunnel
Bottle With Tunnel2025
oil on polycotton
42 x 51 cm
$4,500  ENQUIRE
Ochre Deep Over Scarlet Jake Walker Jake Walker - Ochre Deep Over Scarlet
Ochre Deep Over Scarlet 2025
oil on linen, glazed stoneware
44 x 42 x 7 cm
$7,500  ENQUIRE
Ochre Deep Over ScarletJake WalkerOchre Deep Over Scarlet
Ochre Deep Over Scarlet2025
oil on linen, glazed stoneware
44 x 42 x 7 cm
$7,500  ENQUIRE
Jake Walker

Jake Walker’s artistic practice is characterised by sustained experimentation and a dynamic creative impetus that informs the development of each work. His signature ceramic frames, playful, tactile, and irregular in form, provide a deliberate counterpoint to the smooth, often abstract canvases they surround. This juxtaposition serves to foreground the expressive and material possibilities of clay, positioning it simultaneously as both medium and structural support.

Architectural references are integral to Walker’s oeuvre. Many of his ceramic constructions incorporate elements such as lateral piping, diminutive steeples, and sculptural forms that recall aspects of the built environment. These works frequently retain visible traces of their making; surface textures and structural idiosyncrasies reflect the artist’s manual processes and underscore the handcrafted nature of the practice. Mark-making is also central to Walker’s visual lexicon, with inscriptions appearing along frame edges and across painted surfaces. His works are commonly inscribed with initials and completion dates, subtle acknowledgements of temporal and labour-intensive processes.

Since 2009, Walker has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and New Zealand. He received a High Commendation in the RBS Emerging Artist Award in 2010 and was the inaugural recipient of the Arkley Award at NOTFAIR, Melbourne. In 2012, he undertook a studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including Artbank, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the Chartwell Collection (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki), the Wallace Arts Trust, the Bowman Collection, and the Joyce Nissan Collection, as well as in numerous private collections across Australasia and internationally.

Born 1971, New Zealand

Lives and works in Hobart, Australia

EDUCATION

1991

  • Otago School of Fine Art, Dunedin, New Zealand

1989

  • Whitirea Art School, Wellington, New Zealand

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • 'Pottery UFC', STATION, Sydney

2022

  • 'GROG', Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart

2021

  • 'Pipes', STATION, Melbourne

2020

  • 'I am in Hobart', Gallery 9, Sydney

2019

  • 'LIFE LIKE', STATION, Melbourne
  • 'American Music', Hamish McKay, Wellington, New Zealand

2017

  • 'The Turps', Hamish McKay, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 'NO NUKES', STATION, Melbourne
  • 'Time Frame', Gallery 9, Sydney

2016

  • 'GEYSERLAND', Dutton, New York, USA
  • 'The Suggest Things', Hamish McKay, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 'UNEMPLOYMENT WORKS', STATION, Melbourne

2015

  • 'Jake Walker', Sydney Contemporary, Gallery 9, Sydney
  • 'Going Over The Young', Wellington, New Zealand

2014

  • 'The Town Belt', City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 'Art Basel' Hong Kong, with Utopian Slumps, Hong Kong

2013

  • 'Painting Questions', Gallery 9, Sydney

2012

  • 'Paintings And Relief', Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
  • 'Painting And Relief', Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne

2011

  • 'Owner Builder', Utopian Slumps, Melbourne Paintings, Gallery 9, Sydney

2009

  • 'Have a Go', Gallery 9, Sydney

2008

  • 'New Past Painting Group', James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

  • 'The World Around Us', Gallery 9, Sydney

2021

  • 'Group Show', Gallery 9, Sydney
  • 'Sydney Contemporary', with Gallery 9, Sydney

2020

  • 'Ten year show', STATION, Melbourne

2019

  • 'Sydney Contemporary Art Fair', with Gallery 9, Sydney
  • 'MODEL', Murray White Room, Melbourne

2018

  • 'Support Structure', La Trobe Gallery, Bendigo
  • 'Shantih, Shantih, Shantih', STATION, Melbourne
  • 'NADA' New York, with Dutton, New York, USA
  • 'Swab Barcelona', with Dutton, Barcelona, Spain

2017

  • 'Spring 1883' Art Fair, with Dutton, Sydney
  • 'Sydney Contemporary Art Fair', with Gallery 9, Sydney
  • 'Game', Bowerbank Ninow, Auckland

2016

  • 'The Young Ones', The Young Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

2015

  • 'Spring 1883' Art Fair, with STATION, Sydney
  • 'Sweet Relief', Gallery 9, Sydney

2014

  • '5 Perspectives', The Young, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 'Never-Never Land', Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
  • 'Assembly', Margaret Lawrence Gallery Victorian College of Art, Melbourne
  • 'Utopian Slumps Suite', Spring 1883 Fair, Melbourne
  • '9 Paintings Presentation', Incidents Above The Bar, The Alderman, Melbourne

2013

  • 'Melbourne Now', National Gallery of Victoria

2012

  • 'Ode To Form', Westspace, Melbourne
  • 'The Lie Of The Land', Australian Embassy Gallery, Washington DC, USA
  • 'Gertrude Studio Artists Show', Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
  • 'Place Of Assembly', Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne

2011

  • 'Reason and Rhyme', Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
  • 'Reason and Rhyme Part 2', St Paul St Gallery, Auckland
  • 'Group Show', Gallery 9, Sydney
  • 'Text and Context', CarriageWorks, Sydney
  • 'The New Arcadia', Lismore Regional Gallery
  • 'Studio Artists show', Gertrude contemporary, Melbourne

2010

  • 'Points of View', Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
  • 'Territorial Pissings', Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
  • 'Notfair 2010', Melbourne
  • 'Texticles', Melbourne Art Fair
  • 'The Painting Group', Utopian Slumps, Melbourne

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2010-12

  • Gertrude Contemporary Studio Artist

2011

  • Maddocks Award (finalist)

2010

  • Arkley Award (winner)
  • RBS Emerging Artists Prize (highly commended)

2009

  • BSG Small Works Prize (winner)
  • Blake Prize (finalist)

COLLECTIONS

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Museum Of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

Wellington City Council Collection

Heide Museum of Modern Art

Artbank

Bowman Collection

Chartwell Collection

Joyce Nissan Collection

Wallace Art Trust, Auckland

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2018

  • Romy Ash, Portrait: Artist Jake Walker, The Saturday Paper, 28 July 2018

2017

  • Melissa Loughnan, Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art, Thames & Hudson, 2017, pp. 168-9

2015

2014

2012

  • George Egerton-Warburton, ‘Jake Walker’s Paintings and Relief & Paining and Relief’, un Magazine, 6.1, 2012
  • Alison Lasek, ‘Jake Walker: Painting and Relief’, Gertrude Contemporary, studio 12, exhibition text, 2012

2010

28 May 2025 – 17 June 2025
Jake Walker ‘The Bottle’