Talk #139

Esther Thorniley-Walker

Esther Thorniley-Walker (b.1996, North Yorkshire, UK) graduated from University of Brighton in 2018, with a Fine Art Painting degree and University of York, with a History of Art MA in 2020. She is currently the recipient of the 2023 Freelands Painting Fellowship at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University Aberdeen.

Her artwork explores the physicality of paint, the instinctive marks that overlap and merge together, conjure to her mind the web of interconnecting roots of the forest and the searching tangled branches fighting for light and survival. This presence of the wild entwines with the imagination, creating an emotionally charged dark otherworldly space, which aims to both liberate and unnerve.

Esther has exhibited across the UK and has a upcoming solo show, Freelands Fellowship, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen, 14-17th December 2023 and group exhibition at Freelands Foundation, London, April 2024.