Giles Walker has been building sculpture for the last 27 years.

As a full-time member of the guerrilla-art group, The Mutoid Waste Company, he started building sculptures from materials found in scrapyards as the collective traveled around Europe.

In the mid-nineties, he introduced basic motors into his sculptures and his work became kinetic. He plays with the relationship between technology and the human being and the ever dissolving boundary that separates man from machine. His ‘machines’ often allude to the underbelly of the human obsession with increased technology; the displaced and redundant.

In recent years, Giles has been working with collage. He sees the medium as having a direct link to his roots in scrap art.

Giles has exhibited his work in many different countries around the world, including Japan, USA, Russia, and Ukraine. His solo shows have involved large kinetic, immersive, installations and have received great acclaim. KEN RUSSEL once wrote a review for The Times declaring: "Giles Walker is a master sculptor and a genius”

In 2015 he was an artist in residence at RECHT ALS KULTUR, KATE HAMBURGER KOLLEG, BONN UNIVERSITY.​ He worked with Tim Shaw, RA, developing
The Breakdown Clown,  a piece of AI sculpture currently exhibited at THE SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART.
 
In 2017 Giles was asked to exhibit his piece ‘
THE LAST SUPPERfor six months at THE LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUM. 

In July 2018, THE BRITISH MUSEUM bought a collage, '
Commonwealth'  by Giles to join the museum's permanent collection.

Giles  spent 3 years building his most ambitious animatronic installation piece yet, 'MONSTER'.  In late 2020, he exhibited this work, despite the recent Covid 19 pandemic, at The Truman Stables in Shoreditch, London. It was a huge success and  was nominated as one of  the top 5 London exhibitions of the week. 

Giles is currently working on a book of his work, and the European Machine Art Movement, that is due to be released in 2022.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022      MONSTER  |  Left Bank, Leeds

2020      MONSTER  |  The Truman Stables, London

2018      The Last Supper  | Torre Abbey, Torquay

2017      The Last Supper  |  The London Science Museum

2014      The Balloon Seller and other Tragedies  |  Black Rat Gallery, London

                I’m Never Shopping Here Again  |  Black Rat Gallery, London

2013      The Last Supper  Changing Spaces, Cambridge

2011      The Last Supper  |  Black Rat Gallery, London
                                                  
                The Last Supper  |  The Corey Helford Gallery, Los Angeles

          

JOINT EXHIBITIONS

The V&A, Scream Gallery, Black Rat Gallery, Muse Gallery, Mutate Britain, Hotel Elephant, Guerrilla Zoo, The Hang-Up Gallery, Ben Oakley Gallery, The Saatchi Gallery

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
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2015        
RECHT ALS KULTUR, KATE HAMBURGER KOLLEG, BONN UNIVERSITY

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