Featured Artist

Fin Walker

Who creatively inspires you and why?

Those individuals who keep looking and searching for what is 'true' and who are interested in what it means to take responsibility as a human being for their own needs and wants, not projecting them out onto individuals, society and nations. With regards to those working in the arts, an artist who 'tries' to surpass their ego and create from their essence.

Tell us about projects/ work you are currently involved in.

 I am working on As You Like It at The Globe Theatre with Director Thea Sharrock. I am really enjoying working with the actors and creating in a way that is unfamiliar, making me ask new questions of myself. I am also in the process of developing Walker Park's next project with  Co-Artistic Director/Composer Ben Park and Producer/Manager Dawn Prentice.

How would you describe your work?

My work tries to define a language relevant to the artists I am working with and the concept in question. It then tries to use that language as a vehicle to drive the concept so that the work can say what it wants to say in the most succinct, accessible, and creative way as possible, trying to constantly redefine the boundaries of my art form as I understand them.

What would you like people to take away from your work?

My aim/hope is that people engage with the work. My continual desire is that I refine the work enabling the viewer to access parts of themselves through the work: whether that be feeling, reflection or the 'now'.

How and when did you know you were an artist?

 When I started secondary school I began dance lessons as part of the curriculum. I knew from the age of 11 that I wanted to dance and choreograph. This shaped the beginning of my path.

If you could chat with any artist, past or present, who would it be? And what would you ask them?

I think because I draw my inspiration from modern day thinkers/philosophers/healers I have more 'contact' with this 'world’. My question to a number of them would be:

How do you apply your writings and your research/work to your day to day lives?

How do you live your work/ethos/philosophy?

I see and experience art but have yet to be totally transported and maybe this is part of what drives me! I haven't seen this in dance yet but keep looking...

I think of all the work I have seen over the years in all the different mediums and the work that most immediately comes to mind as having moved me and where I remember being 'lost' but 'present', is the work of Bill Viola; video installation artist. The question I would ask Bill is: How have you arrived at a place of such humility?

Is there anything else you would like to share?

Dance is a beautiful medium and has an incredible ability to connect us and the viewer deeply with self. It would be amazing for our art form to have a support structure where mature dancers, choreographers and directors do not continue to disappear from the professional world. Their wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise is the thing that will help our art form deepen and find new ground: one with integrity, passion and knowing where the viewers soul can be fed and not only their egos.

For more information about Fin Walker, please visit: www.walkerdance.moonfruit.com

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