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Walker & Bromwich : The milk-float of human kindness

The Milk Float of Human Kindness and other ideas
Coed Hills Rural Artspace, St Hilary

Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich present the results their research residency at Coed Hills, accompanied by video installation Limbo-Land.

Opening night Friday 17 April 2009, 7pm. Mathew Prichard CBE will open the exhibition. Informal artist talk by Neil Bromwich.

Exhibition continues to 5 May.

You are welcome to bring a tent and stay overnight at Coed Hills. Start your weekend here and travel on to the opening day of Locws International 2009 in Swansea on Saturday 18 April (see www.locwsinternational.com for more information).


Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich have been in residence at Coed Hills over the last month, making drawings plans and models for new work based around their ideas of alternative systems and ways of living. These theatrical, insightful and often comical proposals hint at a world on the verge of revolution and change.

Limbo-land features an inflatable, hand-crafted, fabric moon and two video works. The films, shot at dusk on a remote Northumberland beach, invite us to re-consider our relationship to the world and its physical limits.

The work seeks to echo the melancholic atmosphere of this expansive coastal landscape and evoke a state of ‘inbetweeness’, both physical and physiological. The film presents Walker as an amateur astronaut caught between the land and the sky in a tragically comic attempt to harness the moon’s energies and reach the ultimate frontier.

Limbo-Land is presented in association with Houldsworth, London.


Zoë Walker & Neil Bromwich have an ambitious practice which crosses between the gallery space and the public realm exploring the space between real landscape and imagined places.

They use public performance, installation and sculpture, as tools through which they invite their audience to protest and dream, employing a playful aesthetic to explore ideas around some of life’s big questions like the pursuit of happiness and the nature of belief. Working together since 1999, Walker & Bromwich’s practice blurs the distinction between individual artistic identities. In its idealistic desire for a better world, their work offers the hope of co-operation and shared outcomes.

Major Walker & Bromwich projects include Fusion, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh; Panacea, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Somewhere Special, ACCA Melbourne; Sci-Fi Hot Tub, a Kielder Art and Architecture Commission; Love Cannon Parade at Camden Arts Centre, Whitechapel Gallery and the Big Chill Festival.