John Walter has applied his maximalist aesthetic onto the subject of HIV in Alien Sex Club (2015), which addressed sexual health as a crisis of visual representation, and CAPSID (2018), which looked at the biological mechanics of the virus. HIV has informed his current interest in viruses of the mind such as the Paisley Pattern or the memes that religious cults use to recruit participants. Recent exhibitions include: Queer Algorithms (Gus Fisher Gallery, 2020); Co-Factors (Suttie Arts Space, 2020); Brexit Gothic (DKUK, 2019); Crep Suzette - A Shoe Show (with Bert McLean, 2019); The Fourth Wall (Look Again Festival Aberdeen, 2019); Booze Guitar (Matt’s Gallery, 2018); CAPSID (CGP and HOME, 2018); Somewhere in Between (Wellcome Collection, 2018);  Shonky: The Aesthetics of Awkwardness (Hayward Touring Exhibitions, 2017); Coming Out: Sexuality Gender and Identity (Walker Art Gallery, 2017). www.johnwalter.net