Special signed copies available first at The Manchester Contemporary

Take home the exclusive exhibition catalogue for Barbara Walker: Being Here, the first ever survey exhibition by British artist Barbara Walker, chartering her compelling figurative practice from 1990s to today.

The illustrated catalogue features new essays on Walker’s practice by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd, Eddie Chambers, Alice Correia, Leanne Green, Rianna Jade Parker and the exhibition curators Poppy Bowers and Hannah Vollam.

This catalogue is supported by Cristea Roberts Gallery.

For over twenty-five years, Walker has been making intensely observed and empathetic figurative work that creates space for Black presence, power and belonging.  Ranging from delicate graphite drawings on archival documents to a monumental charcoal wall drawing, Walker tackles wide-ranging themes such as the policing and surveillance of Black life, twentieth-century war histories, immigration and Old Master paintings to challenge conventions of representation and the histories they are rooted in.