ST!LL BLOOM!NG: Artist Conversations | Episode #5 — Kemmy Walker

In this episode of Artist Conversations, created alongside ST!LL BLOOMING: Emerging in Radiance, Rooted in Resilience, I sit down with artist Kemmy Walker to explore perception, environment, and the quiet power of rootedness.

His work Biota reminds us, "we live within nature, and nature lives within us." KW.

A tree rises from the figure’s head like a visual prayer, grounding, protective, alive. In our conversation, Kemmy speaks about blending perception with environment, history, fantasy, and fear, creating work that keeps us close to the earth and close to ourselves.

Within the exhibition’s curatorial framework of Repositioning Softness As Power, Biota anchors us from protected ground. It  ...