“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 am continually pushing towards the extreme, and see this is a method which enables an expansion in thinking and ways of working… I make reactionary work, consciously active with influences from all walks of culture and life… I position my work around the history, future, and boundaries of jewellery. I make pieces for the future.”

Lisa Walker, from: http://thenational.co.nz/artists/lisa-walker/
Lisa Walker was born in Wellington, 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 eclectic and inquisitive approach to jewellery 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.
In 2015, Lisa was awarded an Arts Foundation Laureate in New Zealand.
After many years living in Munich, Germany, Walker is currently based in her hometown of Wellington, New Zealand.