Richard T. Walker’s tender and provocative videos are part romantic meditation, part confessional love letter. Walker lays bare and challenges the presumption that the natural world revolves around us. A series of shots depicting boulders, bushes, trees and cacti from the Californian desert, are presented to the viewer as a story is heard about someone becoming overwhelmed by these individual beauties. Then culminating into a multi-layered piece of music whereby the artist plays various instruments and sings. Walker is a British artist currently living and working in San Francisco. He received an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2005. International group exhibitions include: Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam; Romantic Damage, De Appel, Amsterdam; Beyond The Country, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; Terminus, Para/Site, Hong Kong; and Meditators, at the National Museum in Warsaw. In 2010, he had solo shows at Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis, Angels Barcelona and Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles, and a solo presentation of work as part of Transplanted at the San Francisco Arts Commission. The last year he completed a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2009 he was awarded an Artadia Award and is a 2010 SECA Finalist.