Joe Warrior-Walker’s paintings energetically jostle with overlapping forms and textures. He bridges the material world with that of the subconscious and the imagination — ‘Like recalling a dream that stitches together disparate locations, characters, and moments in time,’ his works ‘can be read as abstractions. However, they incorporate an attention to the structure of the landscape.’ For Warrior-Walker, ‘abstraction allows a fluctuation between ambiguity and tangibility, referencing the real world while never directly depicting any one place.’ 

Born 1989, Joe Warrior-Walker grew up in the seaside town of St Ives Cornwall. He spent much of his childhood travelling across Asia with his parents. His Mother of Indian heritage and British father are both working artists who would split their time between England and India. In 2011 he relocated to London to study a degree at The Chelsea School of Art. The same year he was also awarded the winner of The Brenda Landon Portrait Prize. After graduating he was awarded a scholarship to complete a Masters degree at UEA London. Recent solo shows include ‘Silt and Stone’ with Coates and Scarry, Bristol (2024), ‘Chalkland’ at Septieme Gallery Paris. ‘When Patterns Form Pictures’ at That Art Gallery Bristol, in 2018, and ‘Pentimento’ at Tungsten Gallery, London. Warrior-Walker’s work has also been shown in a number of group shows, including ‘New Abstractions’ at Informality, Cromwell place London (2024) ‘Abstract Colour’ curated by Lewis Dalton Gilbert at Marlborough Gallery London, ‘Now Now’, curated by Ed Broner at Breach Gallery Miami, ‘A Generous Space’, curated by Matthew Burrows at Hastings Contemporary Gallery and ‘Crossing Point’ at Durden & Ray Gallery, Los Angeles. Warrior-Walker lives and works in Bristol, UK.