Film still from Caroline Walker: Women's Work, directed by Nicola Black, 2026.
Caroline Walker: Women's Work Acquired by BBC
Nicola Black's documentary Caroline Walker: Women's Work will be broadcast on BBC Scotland on 7 and 13 March 2026, and will be available on BBC iplayer from 8 March.
Caroline Walker: Women's Work (dir. Nicola Black) follows Scottish artist Caroline Walker over a period of four years as she makes large-scale paintings representing the unseen, often undervalued, aspects of women’s labour.
Documenting the artist as she prepares for solo exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Wakefield and New York, the film intersperses footage of Walker with her family at home and painting in her studio, with recordings of the women pictured in these paintings, drawing out the points of synchronicity between her work and lived experience.
The film also records Walker's second pregnancy and subsequent experience as a mother of two young children, in order to explore the role of the ‘artist mother’, until recently viewed as taboo in contemporary art. Through privileged access to the artist’s life and work, the film reveals how motherhood has shaped Walker’s approach to making art, acknowledging the importance of her own mother, Janet, in inspiring and supporting her practice.
Nicola and Caroline would like to thank the following contributors and funders:
Sarah Bernal Angulo, Eleanor Clayton, Carlo D'Alessandro, GRIMM Gallery, Alex Hyde, Ingleby Gallery, Hettie Judah, Tom Kavousi-Walker, Peter Mallet, Sacha Janke and Andrew McCormack, Donna McKevitt, Elliot Payne, Rita Sarquis, Louise Sfictos, Laura Smith, Janet Walker, Lisa Walker & Colleen Weatherburn-Tate
