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ONLINE GALLERY
Updated all the time, the gallery allows
visitors to watch an artist at work developing his themes and ideas and
to be there when he discovers new ones. Each drawing is explained in a
pithy text which puts it in context.
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ILL WINDS
a Steve Walker speciality:
enormous
stories only a page long.
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CANADIANA
Drawings and writings coast-to-coast.
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RADIO PLAYS
Since the first Steve Walker radioplay
was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988, there have been 41 more. They have
been broadcast all over the world, in the original and in translations
and new productions. Over the years they have wowed many, outraged some,
and won a few awards. One review called them 'the most inventive used of
radio since The Goons'. This page has a full list of them, with
illustrations and commentary. The full texts of many appear here, and
more are being added all the time.
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SCRIPTS ADDED
The latest scripts to be
added to the radio archive are:
Boot, Balloon, and
Lopez Who Shot Everybody three short plays from the Egg
Pageant.
All the scripts are available for production.
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PYRENEAN LIFE
LA VIE
PYRÉNÉENNE
Pencils, pastels, inks, oils and
silhouettes of life in the Pyrenees - its landscapes, animals and
people. 106 pictures.
Dessins et histoires de la vie
Pyre´néenne, ses paysages, ses gens et ses animaux : 106
dessins au crayon, au pastel, à l'encre ; peintures à
l'huile et silhouettes.
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BOOKS
"Steve Walker's brilliantly inventive
excursions into our fractal, fractured future..."
Read excerpts from the
science fiction novels which almost a decade ago predicted reality TV,
America's isolation, Africa's depopulation and the rise of Osama bin
Laden... as well as Scotland colonizing Mars, supermarkets where you can
buy everything you will ever need, and Bunnyland.
This page has
excerpts from 21st Century Blues, the novel of the BBC radio
series, and its sequel 22nd Century Blues. And the funniest
murder story ever: Plethora of Gits.
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WALKER
IN THE WORM
There is a 2-part feature article in
THE WORM
August &
September 2004 editions, about the exhibition and the artist.
STEVE
WALKER'S WORMINGFORD
"Every day I used to sit on a log on Wormingford Hill. It
was a welcoming landscape, evocative, with forgotten corners
which seemed to want someone to know their story. Old emotions
lay tangled in the nettles waiting for new ideas to unlock
their secrets."
A selection Steve Walker's drawings of
crocodiles, crows, fields and places made around Wormingford.
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SHADOW THEATRE
"The silhouettes could be seen as the
simplest thing I do. I cut out pieces of black paper and stick them
down. But, just like a radio play, where one major sense is removed to
heighten others, the silhoutettes stir the imagination in their unique
way. They are an endless shadow theatre, flashing with mysteries."
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POEMS
"Despite all the other work exhibited on
this site, poetry remains my central activity. Between 1966 and 1986 I
published hundreds of poems in magazines as well as booklets and
collections. Then I decided to stop publishing poetry altogether. Why?
Because my plays were then being produced, I was getting into TV and
radio, with all the associated commercial and critical pressures. I
didn't want my poetry to suffer from those same pressures. I needed it
to remain entirely itself, private and isolated."
Read the new
online collection:
1000 picnics.
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'THE
POPE'S BROTHER' ON STAGE
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Steve Walker's Giles
Cooper Award-winning radio drama 'The Pope's Brother' came to the stage
in a new production directed by Helen Salisbury at the Little Theatre by
the Park, Chesham, on July 2 & 3, 2004. The production was a great
success - many thanks to the wonderful director, cast and crew! Read
the reviews here soon.
Click here to read more about the production.
Read the play
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PENCILS 1977-2003
"The Pencil is the most
versatile instrument an artist can hold. It is also the most personal,
the most intimate, the most self-revealing. A Pencil drawing is also
more deliberate: the unconscious was there with the idea that came
before the drawing, but not in the execution; this is why a Pencil
drawing is more personal, more chosen, why there is more frankness in
it. There is no cheating with a pencil."
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TELEVISION
"Imaginative and stimulating
stories which also make you think."
This review of Noah's
Island describes all of Steve Walker's animated TV shows for
children, which are popular with adults all over Europe too. Read about
The Animals of Farthing Wood and Noah's Island on this
page.
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CD
COVER
NO-FLY ZONE 'Non-U'
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The Life's An Illusion
Minister is amazed to meet a man whose life isn't but who wishes it was.
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TOTAL GOVERNMENT
CARTOONS
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STORIES WITH PICTURES
A selection of short stories,
some with pictures as an integral part, including Autopsy of a
Gnome and Life on a Cake. And a longer story, Elgin
Marbles, about a boy whose grandfather is responsible for the whole
world. Also on this page are three new stories featuring the collosal
hero of Plethora of Gits, Wilf Windscale.
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POEM OF THE WEEK
'The Girl With the Dented Trumpet'
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CONTACT STEVE
WALKER
If
you have any comments or questions for Steve Walker, or if you would
like to buy something or commission something, please email swalkscom@aol.com.
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currency converter.
ECRIRE À STEVE WALKER
Si vous avez des questions ou
des commentaires à addresser à Steve Walker, ou si vous
aimeriez acheter quelque chose ou passer une commande à
l'artiste, vous pouvez le joindre directement à cette addresse
email: swalkscom@aol.com.
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un convertisseur de devises.
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