Superpartner is proud to announce, Sound That Puts Spots on the Edges of the Room, an exhibition of new paintings by Jake Walker.  This marks Jake’s first exhibition in New Zealand and follows his solo exhibition at Sherbet Green, London.  Walker also participated in the La Brea Artist Residency at The Cabin, Los Angeles, where he held a solo presentation in September 2024.

Alongside his exhibition at Superpartner, Walker will lead “Drawings, Diagrams, Dance,” a collaborative workshop at Queenstown’s Te Atamira. In this workshop on February 13, he will guide participants through creating drawing-based choreographic scores, which dancers will interpret as movement pieces.

Inspired by choreography, Jake Walker’s gestural, at times, calligraphic applications of paint travel across the picture plane generating works infused with the immersive spatio-sonic choreographies central to his practice. The exhibition will feature paintings ranging in size from an expansive 2.7m across to the intimacy of works echoing the scale of 12-inch vinyl record covers. The paintings chart the multi-sensory experience of spaces where the body encounters soundscapes, each mapping an abstract sonic environment akin to dance and musical notations.

Walker’s practice bridges visual art and performative movement, reflecting his studies at London’s Royal Ballet School and his immersion in contemporary dance and club culture.

Sound That Puts Spots on the Edges of the Room

Opening 5pm Saturday February 15

Jake Walker Quarter Baked Metronome, 2024, Oil on linen, 270 x 210cm


About Superpartner

Superpartner is an artist agency and contemporary art gallery based in Arrowtown, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Operating from a former chapel built in 1871 and located in Arrowtown’s Heritage Precinct, the gallery presents a diverse programme of exhibitions and offsite projects by national and international artists, working across critically-engaged and innovative practices.

https://superpartner.gallery