sculptor and printmaker, was born in Sydney on January 7, 1912. Studied at Brisbane Tech with L.J. Harvey, at East Sydney Technical College under Rayner Hoff, at the Royal Art Society School under Datillo Rubbo and Sydney Long and from 1937 to 1941 under Henry Gibbons at the Julian Ashton School. Walker designed 16 of the 18 relief panels for one of the main Mitchell Library bronze doors. In 1944 he was appointed an official war artist with the Australian War Memorial and created three dioramas ( Weewak , Artillery Hill, Bougainville 1944 and Bacon Hill New Britain 1945 ), eight drawings and eight sculptores for the museum. In the late 1930s he made linocuts, most given away to friends. He married artist and teacher Edith Jean Brown in 1947. In the 1960s Walker designed visual material for ABC television productions at its Gore Hill studios. The National Gallery of Australia has 10, including first state (1936) and second state (1937) of (Man with a Jackhammer) , a strong abstract composition (latter ill. Lebovic & Warner, Fifty Years , cat.87).
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