About the Artist

Adelaide Walker is an Austin-based artist whose work blends multiple mediums to explore social inequalities and moral dilemmas. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and minors in Art History and Arts Management & Administration. Walker’s practice often revolves around themes of objectification, both of herself and the animals with which she identifies. Combining lithography, painting, and sculptural sewing, she creates soft renderings on found fabrics, often embellishing them with ribbons, lace, and other delicate materials.

These tactile assemblages subvert archaic ideals of beauty, revealing both fragility and enduring strength within what is often overlooked. Drawing on animal symbolism, she transforms the soft surface of fabric with linework and paint, merging image and texture. Having learned mending from her mother and grandmother, Walker treats hand stitching as a meditative act, allowing the fabric to guide her as she pieces together her psychological landscapes. In choosing fabrics, she likens herself to a anthropologist sifting through remnants of the past—wedding dresses left to yellow in thrift stores, delicate lace once cherished, pillowcases with initials hand-stitched by women she will never know. By reimagining these intimate textiles with exposed stitches, soft washes of paint, and raw imagery, she honors their histories while reshaping them.

Her depictions of animals and feminine qualities serve as symbols of strength, dignity, and love for the female experience. Influenced by Kiki Smith’s process-driven approach, Walker allows her materials to lead the creative journey. Her work challenges outdated symbols of power, reframing them into expressions of resilience, liberation, and strength. In her most recent body of work, Walker has expanded her visual language through bold explorations of color, pushing beyond her previous muted palette. While maintaining her depictions of found fabrics, ribbons, and lace, she has introduced vibrant pigments and layered washes that heighten the emotional resonance of her imagery. These works continue her dialogue on resilience and transformation, while inviting viewers into a more vivid and immersive psychological space.​