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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Pendant
2015
stone, wood, silver, thread
195 x 160 x 15mm with 275mm cord
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Pendant
2015
pounamu, silver, thread
180 x 135 x 19mm with 280mm cord
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Pendant
2015
bamboo, fencing wire, acrylic paint
570 x 280 x 190mm
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Necklaces
2015
Installation view
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Pendant
2015
plastic, thread
70 x 50 x 65mm with 175mm cord
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Brooch
sterling silver
37 x 32 x 21mm
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Brooch
2007
paper, staples, glue, fabric, silver
105 x85 x 70mm
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Brooch
2011
plastic, lacquer, silver
145 x 80 x 90mm
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Pendant


2011
wood, lacquer, cardboard, acrylic paint, thread

80 x 110 x 35mm, 390mm cord
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Pendant
2009
wood, acrylic paint, thread
320 x 200 x 15mm, 340mm cord
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Necklace
2014
sheepskin
920 x 770mm
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Lisa Walker
Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother
Poster/Catalogue
The National, 2015
Text by Angela Meyer
A2, folds to A4
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Anna’s Best Friend is Russian Bob’s Mother

Lisa Walker

18 Aug – 19 Sep 2015

“I research 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.  I don’t want to make pieces that are easily steered through our established channels, I want people to be forced to work on new syllogisms, analogies and positions.   I am continually pushing towards the extreme, and see this is a method which enables an expansion in thinking and ways of working. 
I use a large range of materials and techniques.

I make 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 forty years, questioning and researching what jewellery means, what it can be.

I position my work around the history, future, and boundaries of jewellery.  I make pieces for the future.  Everything is food for art”.

Lisa Walker

 

 

 

 

 

Lisa Walker was born in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, in 1967. She studied Craft and Design at Otago Polytechnic Art School and in the early 1990s became a founding member of the Workshop 6 jewellery collective in Auckland.

Walker was based in Germany from 1995 – 2009.  She was able to further develop her ecclectic and inquisitive approach to jewellery under the tutelage of Professor Otto Kunzli at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.  Since then she has exhibited and been involved in projects with Museums, public galleries and other venues internationally.  She has received recognition for her work as the recipient of various awards and scholarships. In 2010 Lisa was awarded the Francoise van den Bosch prize for work of an outstanding quality that influences and appeals to younger generations of artists internationally.  She is regularly invited to teach workshops and give lectures round the world.

Lisa Walker has been represented at The National since her first exhibition at the gallery with Karl Fritsch in 2009.  She was still living in Munich at that time and has since returned, with her family, to live in Wellington, her hometown.

Lisa’s work has featured in group exhibitions such as “Year of the Snake” and “Matter” (with Suji Park and Adrienne Millwood) in 2014.

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