11 Facts About Lisa Walker

Lisa Walker was born on 1967 and is a contemporary New Zealand jeweller.

In 1995 Lisa Walker moved to Germany, and from 1995 to 2001 studied under jeweller Otto Kunzli at the 'Klasse Kunzli' at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste Munchen in Munich.

In Munich, Lisa Walker established a successful international career as a jeweller, including being recognised with the 2010 Francoise van den Bosch Award for "work of an outstanding quality that influences and appeals to younger generations of artists internationally".

In 2009 Lisa Walker returned to Wellington with her partner, jeweller Karl Fritsch.

Lisa Walker has noted that the site provides a "huge hunting ground" for inspiration, and that currently she draws more from imagery she finds online than on objects in the physical world for starting points for her own making.

Contemporary craft writer Andre Gali suggests that since her time as a student in Germany, Lisa Walker has engaged with the concept of 'deskilling':.

Lisa Walker admits to hoarding materials now inclusive of digital imagery saved on social media or an Etsy wishlist.

Lisa Walker's work is held in a number of public collections, including the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, The Dowse Art Museum and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Lisa Walker's work was included in Collecting Contemporary and Bone Stone Shell at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Lisa Walker was included in Wunderruma: New Zealand Jewellery, a touring exhibition that showed at Galerie Handwerk in Munich, The Dowse Art Museum and Auckland Art Gallery.

In 2015 Lisa Walker presented a guest lecture on her past and current work at Nordiska museet, Stockholm, co-organised by Konsthantverkscentrum, the Rohsska Museum for Arts, Crafts, Design and Fashion, and The School of Design and Crafts under the Iaspis programme.