Location: Alleyway behind Cantina del Centro, just off Orton
Time: 10:00am
Join artist Taryn Walker for an artist talk on their recent installation! Taryn and their father (David Walker) have just finished installing their new work “Water Is The Wayfinder” for the newest Art Alleries addition. Taryn will share information about the process of creating and the thought process behind this new work.
Taryn Walker is an award-winning queer, interdisciplinary mixed-Indigenous artist of Nlaka’pamux, Syilx, and European ancestry currently based in the unceded
territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations. Their work explores themes of futurity, spiraling time, utopia, tenderness, playfulness, healing, and cycles of life and death through drawing, printmaking, installation, video, and sound.
In 2018 Walker graduated from the University of Victoria’s BFA program with a Major in Visual Arts and a Minor in Art History & Visual Studies. In December 2024, Walker completed their MFA at Simon Fraser University in Interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts.
Walker’s work has been presented in spaces, residencies, and events across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Notable recent achievements include receiving the SSHRC award (2023), and a research residency at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) which included mentoring with Koichi Yamamoto (2024).