If curious people live interesting lives, then curiosity must be the essence of happiness within fulfilment.

After years of nourishing conversations whilst working together on commercial projects, artists Nikki Walker and Darya Bing decided to merge their skills sets to create Walker & Bing, a multi disciplinary outlet for textiles and fine art, but most importantly their individual creativity.

We recently visited the two women as they passionately discussed their work, listening to each other share research and visual ideas. Walker & Bing may be just one string to each of their bows, but it was evident that this project is fuelled by a curiosity for collaboration and the responsibility that comes with artistic endeavours.

How did you two meet, and what was the common thread that motivated the beginning of Walker & Bing?

We met on an advertising project and then worked together for several years, becoming really good friends. Our mutual love and appreciation for art, fabric and design, with the need to find a personal creative path, have led us to some lengthy conversations about what it is we would like to pursue. We decided that the concept of applying a fine art discipline to multiple textile design projects was a great place to be both creatively and commercially.

What was the most recent thing you saw/heard that inspired you?

Nikki has been practicing a new meditation called happiness that she really looks forward to doing daily and has recently been inspired by the concept of 15 minute cities - a concept that promotes a city where all your everyday needs are ideally met within a 15 minutes reach.

Darya has been inspired by a podcast by Jordan Peterson, which, alongside other matters, discusses the importance of individual identity and responsibility, prior to group identity, and the need to commit to a positive path which creates a meaning.

Artistically, we both recently researched into vintage florals and modernist fabric design.