Unexpected Views: Caroline Walker

Unexpected views is a series of conversations between our curators and some of the most important artists living and working today.

Discussions focus on selected paintings from our collection, exploring their relevance to the artist’s work, or more broadly to current social and cultural issues.

By allowing for new discussions of old works, the series aims for critical, counter-intuitive and joyful approaches to our collection, which reflect the breadth of contemporary artistic practice.

For this session, Daniel F. Herrmann, our Ardalan Curator of Modern and Contemporary Projects, is joined by contemporary Scottish painter Caroline Walker, whose work reflects on the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of women. They discuss Walker’s practice in relation to Edouard Manet’s ‘Corner of a Café-Concert’.