Stephen Walter is an artist who lives and works in London. His work is an investigation into obsessive drawing techniques, semiotics, the glory of maps, where landscape is seen a receptacle for meaning. The maps are a tangle of words, symbols and drawn elements where cultural residues inhabit certain locations. These in turn make up a complex of autobiographical references, epithets, hidden associations and wider contradictions.
Stephen's work explores the phenomenon of personal and collective experiences of place - both real and fictional. The inner view and its mark-making processes are forced to mingle with the shared space of the outside world and its inherited histories.