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Katri Walker is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Glasgow, Scotland and Mexico City.
Aside from making multi-channel video installations, she also likes running up hills.
Please feel free to take a look at some previous work, find out about upcoming projects, read more about her or get a behind the scenes glimpse of work in progress and other musings on her blog.
Sometimes It Makes Me Wonder What I Fought For
Format: HDV triptych Duration: 25.15 minutes "Sometimes It Makes Me Wonder What I Fought For" was one of the very first things Jimmy Redpath, an ex-Blackwatch Paratrooper, said to me when I met him in a greasy spoon in Partick, Glasgow. We met regularly, either in the café or at his home, over ...
The Making of Three Guns for a Killing
Format: HDV diptych Duration: 22.30 minutes 'Tranquility' is a Wild West town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland constructed by the dedicated members of Western re-enactment group the Northern Rough Riders in the group's founder Alistair Baranowski's front garden. 'Three Guns for a Killing' is a script written by group member and first-time director, Neil ...
Señor Celestino on the edge of Heaven
Format: HDV single-screen Duration: 7 minutes An emotive and humorous video portrait of 87 year old Sr Celestino Salazar García. Following a traumatic family incident, a message from God inspired Celestino to embark on the 25 year long construction of his own outdoor church on the edge of El Cielo (Heaven), a national ...
The City is the Film
Format: Single-screen HDV Duration: 14.30 minutes Almost everything comes to us through some media prism, which, in turn, colours not just our view of this life, but our own self-definition. The City is the Film takes its title from a line in A City, a poem by the late Edwin Morgan, ...
Pipe Major Wyatt Earp
Medium: C-print on aluminium Dimensions: 100 x 67cm A portrait of professional bagpipe player, Pipe Major Iain Grant from Corstorphine, Edinburgh who, since childhood, has been fascinated by the Old West and as an adult has found a deep affinity with one of the most famous lawmen of the period, Wyatt Earp ...
North West
Format: HDV triptych Duration: 10 minutes continuous loop North West is a study of a Scottish landscape with a history of indigenous displacement that uses cinematic language to make layered connections to the seductive visual and aural culture of the classic Hollywood Western. Shot in Assynt in Sutherland, it focuses on ...
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November 7th, 2011
Conciencia Urbana @ Andrés Siegel / Arte
Urban Conscience. A group exhibition of cross-disciplinary work at Gallery Andrés Siegel / Arte in Mexico City.
Participating Artists: Daniel Alcalá, Ander Azpiri, Pablo Castillo, Verónica Cuervo, Alex Dorfsman, María García-Ibañez, Máximo González, Aramando Miguelez, Fernanda Sánchez-Paredes, Héctor Velázquez & … Read more…
August 19th, 2011
Scotland on Sunday: Touch of class
by Moira Jeffrey
Scotland on Sunday
14th August 2011
From the weird vantage of a bastion of privilege a guided tour of art for all leaves unsettling questions about public and private creativity.
Often, and this is the principle of … Read more…
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January 11th, 2012
Sewing the seeds
Just before Christmas I took a bunch of the photos and the video I’d taken during the Day of the Dead celebrations in Teocalcingo back to the village and set up a wee show in the church (which is a … Read more…
November 28th, 2011
Blood and Sand
I never thought I’d attend a Corrida de Toros (bullfight) as I’ve never had much of a stomach for violence and don’t by any means support animal cruelty but… a good friend, Emilio Mendez who founded Suerte Matador, talks … Read more…