In 1974, at the age of twenty-one, Walker held his second one-man show in Clarence Street, Sydney, where many of the large canvasses shown in this book were displayed. For this show, he hired the e...view moreIn 1974, at the age of twenty-one, Walker held his second one-man show in Clarence Street, Sydney, where many of the large canvasses shown in this book were displayed. For this show, he hired the entire ground floor space of a modern office building. All the smaller works sold and only one of the fourteen larger canvasses. At the end of the show, after paying for the opening night, Walker owed the company five dollars.
Of his early works, the artist writes: “I was as free as a bird. I had my house and could catch a fish and eat it too. I knew I had to express this bedazzlement of being as it was brimming over like a full-moon tide.”view less