Award
26 October 2025
Caroline Walker shortlisted for Artist of the Year by Apollo Awards 2025
We’re delighted to announce that Caroline Walker has been shortlisted for Apollo’s Artist of the Year Awards 2025. Celebrating outstanding achievements in the art world, the Apollo Awards winners will be revealed on 20 November and featured in the magazine’s December issue.
Drawing on her own photographic source material, Walker provides a unique window into the everyday lives of women. Blurring the boundary between objectivity and lived experience, the artist highlights often overlooked jobs performed by women and the psychologically charged spaces they inhabit.
The artist’s major solo exhibition Mothering, which first opened at the Hepworth Wakefield (17 May — 26 October 2025), is traveling to Pallant House Gallery from 22 November 2025. The show brings together works made over the past five years and new paintings exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care. A new richly illustrated monograph of the same title accompanies the exhibition, published by Lund Humphries in September 2025.
The artist’s major solo exhibition Mothering, which first opened at the Hepworth Wakefield (17 May — 26 October 2025), is traveling to Pallant House Gallery from 22 November 2025. The show brings together works made over the past five years and new paintings exploring themes of motherhood and early-years care. A new richly illustrated monograph of the same title accompanies the exhibition, published by Lund Humphries in September 2025.
Writing about Walker’s practice in the publication, Eleanor Clayton (Curator, Hepworth Wakefield) says: “Walker’s paintings, both monumental and intimate, in both literal and metaphorical terms, offer portals to empathy with other lives through this presence. More than this, they reconnect with one’s own subjective experience that is so often glossed over. Enormous labours – like childbirth, or nurturing small children – otherwise forgotten in a whirl of sleep deprivation and life moving on. Walker’s paintings have long addressed the complexities of women’s position in contemporary society, exposing the gap between lived reality and societal expectations.”
