Lisa Walker
New Zealand , b. 1967
Lisa Walker lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand. Since studying Craft and Design at the Otago Polytech Art School in Dunedin New Zealand in 1989, she has traveled and worked in Australia, Europe, Great Britain and Asia. From 1995-2001 she studied under Otto Künzli at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, living and working in the city from 2002-2009. Through her investigation of the notions of archetypal beauty, Walker has developed a contemporary jewellery practice that is unmistakably hers.
Through her investigation of the notions of archetypal beauty, Walker has developed a practice that offers a unique and articulate challenge to jewellery tradition. Lisa Walker’s work was the subject of a major retrospective at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in 2018, at Melbourne’s RMIT Design Hub in 2019 and at Museum Villa Stuck in Munich in 2020. Her work is in the collections of major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Victoria, Auckland Museum, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and the Dowse Museum, Wellington. She won the Herbert Hoffman Prize in 2010.
“One issue of this work is a study of the differences between an acceptable notion of beauty or stereo-type, and something else – the search for an aesthetic that we hardly ever see, but nevertheless perhaps recognise. This is reactionary work, consciously active with influences from all walks of culture and life. The pieces are often laced with references to contemporary jewellery of the last 40 years, questioning and researching what jewellery means, what it can be.” Lisa Walker, 2007
More work by Lisa Walker
Necklace ,
2019, merino, stuffing, acrylic paint, thread ,
Brooch ,
2012, wood, paint, 18k gold plated silver ,
Brooch ,
2011, wood, lacquer, silver, glue ,
Necklace ,
2016, fabric, stuffing, thread ,
Pendant ,
2011, Paper ,
Pendant ,
2019, silver, lacquer, thread ,
Pendant ,
2011, thread, wood ,
Necklace ,
2019, fabric, stuffing, thread, acrylic paint ,
Pendant ,
2019, pounamu, sterling silver, thread ,
Necklace ,
2006, thread, freshwater pearls, glue ,
I Am A Painter, I Am A Writer ,
2019, iPhone, acrylic paint, steel compound ,
Brooch ,
2004, plastic, glue ,
Playmobil necklace (NGV collection) ,
2010, plastic, thread ,
Pendant ,
2019, wood, acrylic paint, thread ,
Necklace ,
2019, steel compound, thread ,
Necklace ,
2019, fabric, stuffing, thread, acrylic paint ,
