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Frank Walter, Untitled (Palm Tree Frond) (undated). Courtesy Frank Walter Family, photo (c) Kenneth M. Milton Fine Arts and David Zwirner
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Frank Walter, Man Climbing a Coconut Palm and View of Red Canoe and Boat in Harbour (undated). Courtesy Frank Walter Family, photo (c) Kenneth M. Milton Fine Arts and David Zwirner
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Frank Walter, Arawak Ceremony. Courtesy Frank Walter Family, photo (c) Kenneth M. Milton Fine Arts and David Zwirner
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Frank Walter, Fields and Workers (undated) Oil on card. Courtesy Frank Walter Family, photo (c) Kenneth M. Milton Fine Arts and David Zwirner
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Frank Walter, Moon Crater (undated). Courtesy Frank Walter Family, photo (c) Kenneth M. Milton Fine Arts and David Zwirner
Exhibition
Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical
4 Oct 2023 – 25 Feb 2024
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:30 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:30 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:30 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:30 – 16:00
- Sunday
- 10:30 – 17:00
- Monday
- 10:30 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:30 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Adult: £14
Friends and Patrons: Free
Senior citizen: £11
Student/Unemployed: £8
Art Pass: £7
Address
- 5 Lambeth Palace Rd
- Lambeth
- London
England - SE1 7LB
- United Kingdom
This autumn the Garden Museum will present a major exhibition of landscape and nature paintings by Antiguan artist, writer and environmentalist Frank Walter, who was one of the most significant Caribbean visual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first century.
About
This autumn the Garden Museum will present a major exhibition of landscape and nature paintings by Antiguan artist, writer and environmentalist Frank Walter, who was one of the most significant Caribbean visual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first century. Artist, Gardener, Radical will transport visitors to the warm climate of Walter’s ‘castle on a hill’ studio in Antigua, bringing together over 100 paintings and sculptures, the majority of which have never been exhibited before.
Francis Archibald Wentworth Walter (1926 – 2009), known as Frank Walter, produced a prolific body of work exploring environmentalism, Caribbean and Black identity, social justice and the complexity of nature. Throughout his life he created over 5,000 paintings, 1,000 drawings, 600 sculptures, 2,000 photographs, 468 hours of recordings, and a 50,000-page archive.
Walter spent the last 25 years of his life on Bailey’s Hill in rural Antigua, where he established his oceanside studio and garden, occupying his days with writing and painting, mostly in seclusion, until his death in 2009. The exhibition will bring together works created during this important period in his oeuvre.
