Choose life: the art of Lyndal Walker

Lyndal Walker's art is a documentary project which records contemporary taste and the forces that create, manipulate and sustain it. In her installations, Walker documents 'unimportant' things; details of style and fashion that are often overlooked, 'street' styles that help mould and in turn are co-opted by mass consumer culture. Her investigative process makes use of various reproductive technologies, appropriating the language and style of high fashion and advertising. From her early work on punk revival and grunge to her latest work on share house living, there is always a critical edge to her art that questions the dissemination of styles and the manipulation of taste in a mass media society. [Introduction]