A GROUP of works by the first non- British Turner Prize artist are being installed at the Walker.

Nine pieces by German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans are being integrated into the gallery’s own permanent collection where they will sit alongside Pre-Raphaelites, Medieval religious paintings and 18th-century portraits.

Their positioning reflects the artist’s very personal response to the Walker’s body of work, drawing out connections between his own images and traditional genres such as still life, landscape and portraiture.

Tillmans, who in 2000 also became the first photographer to be awarded the Turner Prize, said: “I spent quite a bit of time with the collection catalogues discovering fascinating coincidences like there is a nightscape by Daguerre here, who happens to be the inventor of photography.

“In the past 10 years, I have worked with purely photographic material and light which is interesting to put next to the Daguerre.”

Most of the works on display, dating from 2004 to 2009, were recently acquired by the Arts Council Collection.

However, Tillmans created a new abstract piece especially for this exhibition, opening on September 18 as part of the Liverpool Biennial. Freischwimmer 151 is a 5m-wide ink-on-paper work attached to the gallery wall by a series of small bulldog clips.

Ann Bukantas, the Walker’s head of fine art, described Tillmans as “one of the most exciting and innovative artists of his generation”.

She said: “The installation functions as a work of art in its own right.

“He invites us to consider the relationship between works and the locations in which they sit, rather than simply looking at an individual piece.”

FOR a video of Wolfgang Tillmans describing his work, visit www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/biennial