‘For the past two years the artist Katie Cordes has observed one man in the Sydney CBD. He doesn’t know he is being watched. He doesn’t know he is being photographed. Very soon Katie Cordes will be exhibiting the resulting work from this remarkable time.’

“I’M TELLING YOU STORIES….TRUST ME.”

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On February 24th 2005 a new exhibition opens at Paddington’s Blender Gallery.

THE WALNUT MAN is a real person in the Sydney city who artist Katie Cordes has been observing for the past two years.
The show is about the attachments we make to people we don’t know. How anonymous strangers can become very important to our daily lives for just being there - The human ability of reaching out for other humans and our necessity to ‘belong’ to something.

Katie Cordes’s work is conceptual in its nature and the mediums used vary from large format photographs printed on canvas to small pencil drawings.

“The Walnut Man first came to my attention because he was always writing on a laptop in a public place – which I’m fairly convinced was a novel. He could be famous- About to launch his next book. It is all speculation. Because THE WALNUT MAN doesn’t know he is the subject of this show. It’s unlikely he ever will.” - Katie Cordes

THE WALNUT MAN has over the past 18 months, struck a chord with many people Katie has shared him with, not the least are two film-makers who are now making a documentary on her work and THE WALNUT MAN.

Katie Cordes is a practicing artist living in Sydney. Her last show “36 Winter Leaves of Otsu”, at the Side On Gallery in Sydney 2003, sold out. She has been accepted as an artist in residence by Bathurst Regional Art Gallery at the historic rural town of Hill End in Spring 2005.Katie also works full time as the Head of New Media at Nickelodeon Australia.

THE WALNUT MAN opens at Blender Gallery on Thursday February 24th 2005 and will run until March 15th 2005.