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LISA WALKER was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1967. She studied at Otago Polytechnic Art School in Dunedin, majoring in jewellery. Walker’s initial jewellery studies were steeped in the tradition of goldsmithing. She then began to embrace and explore other influences and now works with a vast range of materials, ideas, themes and processes.

In 1995, Walker travelled to Germany to study under Otto Kuenzli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich graduating in 2002 and establishing her workshop in Munich till she returned to New Zealand in 2009 with her partner Karl Fritsch and their two children.

Walker uses a vast range of materials and construction methods. She creates objects that consciously simmer with influences from all aspects of culture and life. The pieces are often laced with references to contemporary jewellery of the past forty years, as she questions and researches what jewellery means and what it could be. Walker largely positions her work around the history, the future and the boundaries of jewellery

Walker has exhibited internationally since 1992 and has received many awards such as the Francoise van den Bosch award, Foerderpreis der Stadt Munchen, New Zealand Arts Foundation Laureate Award. She has  work in many international collections including Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, Schmuck Museum, Pforzheim, Germany, Danner Stiftung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, Stedelijk Museum’s Hertogenbosch, Holland, Musée Arts Décoratifs/Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France, Middleborough Institute of Modern Art, Middleborough, England

“Everything is food for art. I don’t always know what I’m doing. I hope it stays like that.”

Lisa Walker mentors Aphra Cheesman