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Lisa Walker
Lisa Walker
Artist statement:
shells gourd art painting trophy earring holder print of ring vase drawing bowl lamp Māori wall collection light
Bio:
Lisa Walker was born in 1967 in Wellington, New Zealand. She studied Craft and
Design at Otago Polytechnic Art School in Dunedin from 1988-89. After travelling
for two years around Australia, Great Britain and Asia, establishing small
workshops as she went, she returned to New Zealand and founded Workshop 6
with other jewellers in Auckland. From 1995-2001 she was a student of Otto
Künzli at the Akadamie der Bildenden Künste in Munich, Germany. She established her studio in Munich from 2002- 2009, returning to Wellington with her partner Karl Fritsch and their two children in 2009 where she is still currently based.
Lisa has exhibited widely in galleries and museums both in New Zealand and internationally and has work in many local and international collections. She has received awards and prizes including Foerderpreis der Stadt Muenchen in 2007, the Francoise van den Bosch Award in 2009 and the Arts Laureate Award of the
New Zealand Arts Foundation in 2015. In 2021 Lisa was awarded the Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit ONZM.