Salt Fruit

Henry Jock Walker

21 November - 7 February 2027
Main Gallery

“I feel like sometimes I am farming neoprene and harvesting the fruit”.
— Henry Jock Walker

Henry Jock Walker’s practice centers around the energy of surfing, expressed through textile and moving image artworks responsive to place and open to experimentation. Walker works with found and repurposed wetsuits, cutting, splicing, collaging and sewing them into tactile works that pulse with line, shape and vivid colour.

In Salt Fruit, Walker delivers a body of exciting works that tie back to memories of growing up on his parents’ farm in Willalooka, in the Limestone Coast. Tapping into a nostalgia for childhood adventure ­— riding motorbikes and heading to the beach — Salt Fruit showcases a bold aesthetic and materiality, evoking a collective memory and celebration of the seaside and of the open air.

Henry Jock Walker is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works on Kaurna Country, Adelaide, South Australia and is represented by the Egg and Dart Gallery, Wollongong, New South Wales. Walker is a founding member and director of the artist collective The Bait Fridge.

 

 

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Image: Henry Jock Walker, Salt Water Smoke Signals from South Australia (it’s toxic): Green bug Gastric, 2025, stretched found neoprene with powder-coated aluminium frame. Courtesy of the artist