New Zealander Lisa Walker is to be the 2010 recipient of the Françoise van den Bosch Award.  The award is presented every two years to an international jewellery artist whose work is of outstanding quality.

New Zealander Lisa Walker is to be the 2010 recipient of the Françoise van den Bosch Award.  The award is presented every two years to an international jewellery artist whose work is of outstanding quality.

Lisa has been living in Munich for the past 15 years where she has established an international career as a contemporary jeweller.

She is returning to New Zealand on December 12 with her husband and two children to live in Wellington. Her return coincides with an exhibition of her work at TheNewDowse, Lisa Walker: Unwearable, 12 December 2009 - 25 April 2010.

Unwearable is a survey exhibition that traces the dramatic changes in Walker’s practice since the early 1990s - a tantalising transition from the traditional and wearable to the non. 

Lisa Walker was born in Wellington in 1967. From 1988 to 1989 she studied Craft and Design at Otago Polytech Art School and in 1992 was a founding member of “Workshop 6”. 

In 1995, Walker moved to Munich where she studied under Professor Otto Künzli and was awarded the Meisterschülerin (Head student) in 2001. In 2004 she gained a Diploma from the Munich Arts Academy and was part of the event “Im Laden des Goldschmiedes” at Munich’s Luitpold Lounge.

Walker has exhibited widely in Europe, including Amsterdam, Barcelona and Berlin, and in America, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. Her work is held in collections in Germany at the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim and the Danner Stiftung in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, as well as in New Zealand at the Auckland Museum, Te Papa and TheNewDowse. 

Walker is married to jeweller Karl Fritsch and they have two children.