Gabrielle Walter is a visual artist that makes anything and everything sequential. Narrative and communication are pillars of her practice, and she actively considers how images speak to each other across multiple panels, pages, or frames. All mediums are of interest to her, but she mainly uses drawings, cyanotypes, and digital illustration to create her projects. In the past, she has worked in both public and fine art spaces, producing the design for Bill Walton’s chair at University of Arizona basketball games as well as work for Lubbock and Tucson galleries. She is currently completing her Masters of Fine Arts in Illustration and Design at the University of Arizona where she makes work about her relationship with her body, anxiety, and womanhood.
Statement:
My work explores my experiences inhabiting a female body in a gendered society and the anxiety of this version of womanhood. With each project, I am always asking myself how I can acknowledge and understand my body better, even when trying to ignore its existence feels more emotionally comfortable. I often start by creating drawings, cyanotypes, and writings about these moments before digitally collaging my base materials into illustration series, artist books, and animations. While working, I recall an experience and try to make sense of it by inserting it into a fictionalized space. The visual landscapes I create represent a place where I can positively break my memories down and stitch them anew as reclamations on paper.
Statement:
My work explores my experiences inhabiting a female body in a gendered society and the anxiety of this version of womanhood. With each project, I am always asking myself how I can acknowledge and understand my body better, even when trying to ignore its existence feels more emotionally comfortable. I often start by creating drawings, cyanotypes, and writings about these moments before digitally collaging my base materials into illustration series, artist books, and animations. While working, I recall an experience and try to make sense of it by inserting it into a fictionalized space. The visual landscapes I create represent a place where I can positively break my memories down and stitch them anew as reclamations on paper.