Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical

“A fascinating, kaleidoscopic exploration… Like any great artist, Walter pulls you into a world so vivid that everything else fades away.” – The Telegraph ★★★★

In autumn 2023 the Garden Museum presented a major exhibition of the landscape and nature paintings and sculptures of Antiguan artist Francis Archibald Wentworth Walter (1926–2009), known as Frank Walter. One of the most significant Caribbean visual artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Artist, Gardener, Radical delved into Walter’s prolific body of work exploring Antiguan plants and landscapes, environmentalism, Caribbean and Black identity, social justice and the complexity of nature.

With over 100 paintings and sculptures which had never been exhibited before, and a newly-commissioned immersive set by award-winning designer Jeremy Herbert, this exhibition transported visitors to the warm climate of Walter’s ‘castle on a hill’ studio in coastal Antigua.