Career Profile: Graeme Walker, artist, writer and country

Graeme Walker was born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1980, and studied at the University of Northumbria. His first London exhibition was in the BookArtBookShop in 2002, and he has published a number of books including Crisis! (2002) and The Drift Book (2004). Between 2004 and 2006 he curated events and exhibitions at Bookville, a mobile distributor, publish-a-thon, and centre for site-specific happenings, both in the UK and in the Netherlands. Apart from being a book-artist, performance-maker, one-man mummer, musician and cultural provocateur, Graeme Walker is also a country in and of himself. All queries can be directed to the embassy.