Born: 1953 Auckland, NZ
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Into the Woods, Australian Galleries Sydney, NSW
2022 The heron and the cat in the bath: paintings & works on paper', Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2022 The rising moon and other contemplations, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2020 Studies in Solitude, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2019 The Raked Sea, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2019 The Breaking Wave, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2018 The sea and the folded cloth, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2016 Landscapes and still life, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2016 Through the trees, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2015 Sea, Snow and other Matters, Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2015 Book launch and small exhibition, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2014 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2013 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2013 Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2012 Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2012 Melbourne Art Fair, Beaver Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2012 Hotel Penaga, Penang, Malaysia
2011 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2011 Scott Livesey Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2010 Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
2009 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2009 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2008 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2007 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2007 Printmaking Fellowship, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
2007 Heiser Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
2007 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2006 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2006 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2005 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2004 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2003 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2002 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2002 Christine Abrahams Gallery at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2001 Milford Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2000 Christine Abrahams Gallery at Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
1999 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1999 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
1997 Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane, QLD
1997 Rimbun Dahan Residency, Kuang, Malaysia
1996 Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
1995 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1995 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
1994 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney. NSW
1993 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
1993 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1992 Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1992 Perth Galleries, Perth, WA
1991 Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1990 Thornton Walker: Recent Paintings, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne, VIC
1990 Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1989 Recent Paintings, Café Maximus, Melbourne, VIC
1989 Thornton Walker, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1987 Vital Functions and Mythography, United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1986 United Artists Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1984 Leveson Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1982 Paul Craft Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1980 Drummond Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Illsley Collection: A Quarter Century of Collecting, Kelli Lundberg Art, Mornington Peninsula, VIC
2020 King's School Art Show, The King's School, Sydney, NSW
2020 Off the Wall Summer Group Show, Australian Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2019 Australian Galleries: The Purves Family Business. The First Four Decades, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2019 Hadley's Art Prize, Hobart, TAS
2019 Paper walls, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2019 Papermade, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, VIC
2017 Small works, Tussock Gallery, Point Lonsdale, VIC
2017 Poets and Painters Exhibition, Bett Gallery, Hobart; Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart, TAS
2016 Impressions, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
2016 Small works, Beaver Galleries, Canberra, ACT
2014 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
2013 Sydney International Art Fair, Beaver Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2012 Group exhibition, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
2011 Home and Away, Prints from the Australian Print Workshop, Australian Embassy, Washington, USA
2010 Dallas Art Fair, represented by Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2010 Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
2010 Kedumba Drawing Prize, Kedumba, NSW
2010 Aichi Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
2009 Here Now, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2007 Redcliffe Art Prize, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe, QLD
2007 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
2006 Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, VIC
2004 Melbourne Art Fair , Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
2003 Changing Surfaces, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, VIC
2002 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
2000 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
1998 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
1998 Important Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
1997 Mulch & Metaphors: The Garden in Contemporary Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
1996 Food in Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC
1996 Gallery Two, Launceston, TAS
1996 Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney
1996 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, vic
1995-96 Blake Prize National Touring Exhibition, Australia
1995 Works on Paper - A Selection, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1995 Herald Sun Art Prize Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
1994 Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
1994 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
1994 Art Asia, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
1992 Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, VIC
1992 Works on Paper, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sydney, NSW
1991 Recent Australian Painting, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1990 100 x 100 Print Exhibition, Arden Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1988 Fifty Fine Artists, Bicentennial Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
'1988 A New Generation 1983 - 1988: The Philip Morris Arts Grant Purchases, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1988 Art Now - Painting in the Eighties, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra
1988 St Kilda One, Linden, Melbourne, VIC
1987 Moet & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Touring Exhibition, Australia
1987 United Artists at Mori, Mori Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1986 Melbourne Painters, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1986 A First Look: The Philip Morris Arts Grant Purchase, ANG at the ANU, Drill Hall, Canberra, ACT
1985 St Kilda Acquisitive Exhibition, Linden, Melbourne, VIC
1984 St Kilda Acquisitive Exhibition, Linden, Melbourne, VIC
1982 St Kilda Acquisitive Exhibition, Linden, Melbourne, VIC
1976 Travelling Exhibition of Australian Prints to France, Print Council of Australia
1976 Prahran College of Advanced Education Graduate Exhibition, Melbourne, VIC
COLLECTIONS
Aichi Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Artbank, Sydney
Australian National Gallery Commonwealth Government Offices, Canberra
AXA Australia, Sydney
British Museum, London, UK
Commonwealth Government Offices, Canberra
Deakin University, Burwood, VIC
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
New South Wales University, Sydney
Phillip Morris Arts Grant Collection: Parliament House, Canberra
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Private collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, Israel, USA and Europe
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2020 Finalist, King's School Art Prize, Sydney
2019 Finalist, Hadley's Art Prize, Hobart
2017 Finalist, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award
2016 Punchbowl Poets and Painters Retreat & Residency, Tasmania
2016 Studio residency at The Art Vault, Mildura
2016 Climarte Poster Project
2012 Studio residency, Hotel Penaga, Malaysia
2010 Finalist, Kedumba Drawing Prize, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2010 Finalist, Paul Guest Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC
2007 Printmaking Fellowship, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
2007 Redcliffe Art Prize, Redcliffe Art Gallery, Redcliffe, QLD
2006 Master Class in Printmaking, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1997 Studio residency, Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia
1994 Australia Council Studio Residency, Barcelona, Spain
1994 Ansett Drawing Prize, Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Abrahams, Guy Rimbun Dahan Residency, catalogue, December 1997
Art and Australia Exhibitions Commentary, vol. 25, no.1, Spring 1987
Australian National Gallery A New Generation 1983 - 1988: Philip Morris Arts Grant Purchases,catalogue, July 1988
Barron, Sonia; "Bowl a Personal Trademark", Canberra Times, May 8 1999
Barron, Sonia "Walker Heightens our Experience of the Real", Canberra Times, 20 June 1988
Brown, Phil "Zen Pal", Brisbane News, May 1997
Catalano, Gary Age, 19 Feb 1986
Cawthorne, Zelda "Residential Coup", Herald Sun, 28 December 1996
Chow, Lesley "Stillness is the Move: Frozen Frames in Thornton Walker", artinfo.com.au
Christudas, Sam "Haunted by Melancholic Images", Sunday Star, Malaysia, 14 December 1997
Grishin, Sasha "Profound contemplation in paintings", Canberra Times, 23 October 2018
Grishin, Sasha "The Framing of Dreams", Canberra Times, April 2 2011
Grishin, Sasha What Now?, Art Collector, Jan - March 2011
Grishin, Sasha "Challenging Path Flows in Rewards", Canberra Times, May 2009
Grishin, Sasha "Thornton Walker's Mood Painting", Australian Art Collector, Issue 42, 2007
Grishin, Sasha "Meditations on Eternity", Canberra Times, May 2007
Grishin, Sasha "Mood Paintings with a Sense of Enigma", Canberra Times, 18 May 1996
Grishin, Sasha "Reserves of Precious Virtue", Canberra Times, 14 November 1990
Grishin, Sasha Review, Canberra Times, 20 May 1992
Grishin, Sasha Canberra Times, 20 September 1987
Haynes, Peter "Review: Thornton Walker Paintings & Works on Paper exhibition", Canberra Times
Herbert, Kate "A Residency in Malaysia Inspires New Landscapes", Melbourne Times, 1998
Hutchings, Patrick "Of Possibility and Paradox", Age, September 2007
Lopez, Annemarie Zen in a Teacup, Australian Art Review, May - July 2010
Lord, Elizabeth "Vintage Chinese Photos Inspire Exhibition", Mercury, 9 November 2012
Lynn, Elwyn "Children of the Cosmos", Australian, 14 April 1991
Makin, Jeff "No Logo, Just a Mystery to Bowl Us Over", Herald Sun, 24 September 2007
Makin, Jeff "Critic's Choice", Herald Sun, 10 April 2006
Makin, Jeff "Little Bowls for the Soul", Herald Sun, 18 July 2005
Makin, Jeff "In the Frame", Review, Herald Sun, 18 May 1998
Mendelssohn, J "Taking a Risk on Art", Bulletin, 14 June 1988
McCulloch, A & S The Encyclopedia of Australian Art, Allen & Unwin, NSW, August 1994, p733
McNamara, T J "In Sync with Simplicity of Bowls" NZ Herald, 26 November 2001
Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation, Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation touring
exhibition, catalogue, 1987
Musa, Helen "Maker of Sonnets in Paint", Canberra Times, 26 May 1996
Rooney, Robert "Melbourne Art", Australian, 15 September 1995
Rooney, Robert Australian, 22 February 1986
Smith, Sue "When Intuition Meets Serendipity", Courier Mail, May 1997
Stanford, Leone "Strong and Contemplative", Brisbane Review, May 1997
"Thornton Walker by Thornton Walker", with essays by Professor Sasha Grishin, Dr Patrick Hutchings &
Guy Abrahams Melbourne Books, 2015
Timms, Peter "The Year in Review", The Age, 30 December 1998
Timms, Peter "Art Holds the Key to Landscape", The Age, 17 June 1998
"Walker's works show darker side of exotic lands", Mercury, 17 November 2012
Ward, Peter "Flash and Feisty", Weekend Australian, 11-12 June 198
Whateley, Gerard "A Local Talent Bowls 'em Over", Herald Sun, 26 September 1995