Hazlehurst Print

Maria Walker is contemporary artist who has just emerged from obtaining a MA in Fine Art from the University of Chester, where her main area of concern has been to explore the use of textile practice in a fine art concept. Her practice- based research explored the sensuous qualities of textiles and its association with the body and the haptic.

Her earlier work explored the concept of memory, nostalgia and forgetting through a combination of embroidery, illustration, digital imagery, print and found objects. She is particularly interested in telling the stories of ordinary people, which are often overlooked by historians, especially those of women.

 

Maria is an artist at Cross Street Arts and is member of the North West artists group Markmakers. She also runs workshops and gives talks to groups.

 

MA in Fine Art University of Chester 2014

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design MMU 2012

 

Exhibitions

Knit a Year, Hazlehurst, Runcorn, Mar 2015

Host, The Gallery at Bank Quay House, Feb to April 2015

Cross Street Arts, The World of Glass, St Helens. Jan to Feb 2015

Perspectives, Weaver Hall Museum, Northwich. Jan to Apr 2015

The Lightfoot Letters Llandudno Library, Llandudno.Nov 2014 to Dec 2014

All About Drawing, Cross Street Gallery, Standish. Nov 2014 to Jan 2015

Open Studios Exhibition. Cross Street Gallery, Standish. Oct to Nov 2014

MA Fine Art Show University of Chester October 2014

Cabinets of Curiosity (Markmakers). Liverpool Independents Biennial, Albert Dock Sept 2014

Loop: Maria Walker and Estelle Woolley Chester Film Coop August 2014

World War 1, Royal Exchange Craft Centre, Manchester May 2014

Stanza Poetry Festival, St Andrews, Scotland, March 2014

Talk at Textile Stories Symposium, University of Chester, June 2013

Artist Residency. East Cheshire Council June 2010