Coates Walker

“I've had a life time of fascination with the printed image. In childhood it was comics, in particular "American Comics" as they were known as in the early Post War period. Soon after in the early 50's British comics started to improve and the Eagle comic was launched. This was a big break through in terms of graphic style, full color printing and stories about Space Travel which captured a young boy's imagination. Beyond childhood it was the illustrations and diagrams in technical and scientific magazines and Sci Fi novels that I found inspiring.

I studied Ceramics at Art College and during my time at the Royal College of Art I met Eduardo Paolozzi and on leaving college I became his personal assistant. The time with him involved producing drawings and the colour separations for his screen prints.

Now we are in the Digital Age and this has opened up limitless possibilities in terms of creativity i.e. image manipulation and desktop printing etc also it's now possible to access all kinds of information that feed into new ideas and images. With the images I produce I am still following the thread from childhood, Science Fiction, the Future, Modernism, Science Fact and most importantly the impact of Singularity and Artificial Intelligence.”