Walker Babington is an artist, actor and stunt performer who builds large-scale dreamscape folk art sculptures and creates portraiture on reclaimed materials by exploiting their inherent deteriorative properties and using their existing patinas as his canvas. Through burning wood, rusting steel, tarnishing copper, and scratching, grinding, melting, marring and otherwise selectively corroding his media, Babington has traveled the world producing his creatively-destructive work.
Across three decades, his unconventional art career has included working as a street artist in rural Costa Rica; using his flame-engulfed body to scorch a “Fire Angel” into wood; and creating large-scale fire-drawn murals in San Francisco, Annapolis, New Orleans, and Bangalore, India. Babington’s larger-than-life sculptures employ curved architecture, storybook aesthetic, and his signature reclaimed materials. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and daughter.