Under Stand The Space | Corban Walker at Solomon Fine Art

Solomon Fine Art is delighted to host an exhibition by one of Ireland’s leading contemporary artists, Corban Walker. This is Walker’s first solo exhibition at Solomon since joining the gallery in 2022.

Under Stand The Space spans over eighteen years and includes a range of sculptural and wall-mounted works, some of which are exhibited here in Ireland for the first time. Assembled using carefully engineered stacking systems and ranging in steel, aluminium, acrylic and glass, this body of work is concerned with perceptions of scale, architectural constructs and the manipulation of materials.

Walker’s local, cultural, and specific philosophies of scale are fundamental to how he defines and develops his work, challenging the viewer to articulate form and structure in a new transparency and creating new means for viewers to interact and navigate their surroundings. Contrasting his own personal experience with other people’s belief of what is considered a ‘correct proportion and measure’, through a minimalist approach he aims to introduce new ideas to our environment through his own perception of scale, known as Corbanscale.

Walker graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, in 1992. Since then, he has mounted several solo exhibitions internationally and has realized important public art commissions worldwide. He represented Ireland at the 54th Venice International Art Biennale in 2011 and received the prestigious Pollock Krasner Award in 2015. His work forms part of numerous public and private collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Crawford Gallery, Cork and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

His latest public sculpture, BUSHY, was unveiled last year in Dublin’s Bushy Park as part of the Sculpture Dublin initiative. This was closely followed by a major solo exhibition at the Crawford Gallery, Cork, a two-person show with Katherine Sankey at The Dock in Carrick on Shannon and the launch of his book ‘As Far as I Can See’, published by Oonagh Young.