{"id":13054,"date":"2016-02-17T08:40:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T07:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ministryofwalls.com\/shop-2\/allgemein\/nick-walker-amour-plated-2\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T15:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T14:33:01","slug":"nick-walker-amour-plated","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/alt.ministryofwalls.com\/de\/produkt\/nick-walker-amour-plated\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Walker – Amour Plated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Walker<\/b> (born 1969)

[1]<\/a><\/sup> is an established graffiti artist originating from Bristol<\/a>, England<\/a>. He is credited with being part of the stencil graffiti<\/a> movement that Robert Del Naja<\/a> had started in the 1980s, which was also an influence on Banksy<\/a>. Walker was invited by film director Stanley Kubrick<\/a> to recreate the graffiti’d streets of New York<\/a> for his 1999 film, Eyes Wide Shut<\/a>.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

His paintings often feature a bowler-hatted gentleman ‚vandal‘, which featured in a video by The Black Eyed Peas<\/a>.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Walker’s paintings now sell for large sums of money – in 2006 a spray painted work titled „Moona Lisa“ sold for an unexpected \u00a354,000 at Bonhams<\/a> in London.[3]<\/a><\/sup> At a solo exhibition at London’s Black Rat Gallery in 2008, \u00a3750,000 worth of art was sold, with dozens of people camping outside the gallery overnight.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Walker was a main participant in the 2011 See No Evil<\/a><\/i> event in Bristol, where he painted „perhaps the most striking piece at the event“,[4]<\/a><\/sup> one of his bowler-hatted gentleman on the side of a tower block<\/a> in Nelson Street.<\/p>\n

Nick Walker was the very first artist-in-residence of the Quin Arts program at the Quin hotel in New York City. Walker created 15 original pieces on-site for the Quin\u2019s permanent collection during his residency in 2013, shortly following the hotel’s opening.[5]<\/a><\/sup> In 2016, Nick Walker revisited the Quin to showcase both historic images, as well as a new vocabulary of abstraction. This solo exhibit, curated by DK Johnston, presented 25 original works and opened the hotel\u2019s Quin Arts program for the 2016 season.[6]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Walker still lives in Bristol.[7]<\/a><\/sup>

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