LISA WALKER

Lisa Walker was born in Wellington, New Zeeland. She has been studying for the well known professor Otto Kunzli at the Arts Academy in Munich, Germany, where she became acknowledged as the best student in her class. Since then she lived and worked in Munich. At the end of 2009 she and her family emigrated to Wellington. During the years she has been gathering awards and frequently participated in group exhibitions as well as separate exhibitions. At Schmuck in Munich, she is now one of the most well known participants.

"If the metal brooch had been plastic I couldn´t have broken the sheep`s legs like that, so you could say the nature of the material dictated how it turned out“.

"One issue of this work is a study into 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

Lisa Walker (Wellington, New Zealand, 1967) studied Craft Design at Otago Polytechnic Art
School, Dunedin (NZ) from 1988-89. Afterwords she travelled and worked in Australia,
Great Britain and Asia for two years. From 1995-2001 she studied in the Klasse Künzli at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Since then she lived and worked in Munich. At the end of
2009 she and her family will emigrate to Wellington. Lisa Walker’s radical work is
continuously pushing the borders of the accepted and expected. She is engaged projects with
fellow artists, and gives workshops and lectures all around the world.