Carrie Walker

In Stick Drawings, Carrie Walker continues her exploration of the overlooked, the incidental and the under-appreciated. While much of her previous work has centred on animals and the ways they move through human culture and imagination, this project shifts attention to something seemingly inanimate: the stick. But “inanimate” proves to be an inadequate description. Through Walker’s meticulous drawings, each stick becomes a miniature landscape — etched with the traces of insects, weather, decay, and time. The grain of torn wood reads like cliff faces; the tunnels of borers resemble wandering paths; bark and lichen form an unruly terrain.

The sticks are chosen and collected by Walker's terrier, Guess.