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Frances Walker CBE, RSA, RSW, D.Litt, Hon FECA is an artist who has lived and worked in Aberdeen for 60+ years. Born in Kirkcaldy in 1930 Frances Walker studied at Edinburgh College of Art and after attending Moray House College of Education was sole teacher of art for all schools in Harris and North Uist, Western isles 1956-1958 then lecturer in drawing and painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen 1958-1985.
Frances was one of the founder members of Peacock Printmakers in 1974 and has continued to have a close association with the workshop ever since and is still printmaking from stone, plate and screen.
Based on a drawing made at Achmelvich. –Frances Walker
Taken from Frances Walker: Printing On, an exhibition curated by Peacock: a workshop for art, taking place at the Aberdeen Art Gallery in 2022. The exhibition features six new prints by Aberdeen-based printmaker Frances Walker realised in collaboration with Peacock during the past two extraordinary years. Looking back on her travels throughout the years, some of the prints are re-elaborations of previous plates. The prints trace a printmaking journey that unfolds through time as well as space, capturing the atmospheric presence of place and memory.
