Lisa Walker

In the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours, Walker was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services as a jeweller.

In her 2021 iteration of the same exhibition at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Lisa Walker: She wants to go to her bedroom but she can't be bothered, "over 250 pieces [were] carefully displayed over gallery spaces that each loosely encompass[ed] a significant chapter in her career." Like the Te Papa Tongarewa exhibition, it was an ambitious retrospective looking at the artist’s 30-year career as a pioneer of contemporary jewellery.

For the 2018 Te Papa Tongarewa exhibition I want to go to my bedroom but I can’t be bothered, a guide co-authored by Isaac du Toit and Megan du Toit was produced. A Children’s Guide to the Jewellery (and Art) of Lisa Walker showcased Lisa Walker's 30-year exploration of what "Jewellery" can be.

In a review of a 2015 exhibition of Walker's work, art critic Warren Feeney wrote:

In 2015 Walker joined the photo-sharing website Instagram. She 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.

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

For the Obstinate Object exhibition of contemporary sculpture at City Gallery Wellington in 2012 Walker contributed a site-specific piece called BROOCH, where a brooch fastening and steel safety chain were affixed to a gallery ceiling, suggested a visitor could 'wear' the building.

Walker's work was included in Collecting Contemporary (2011–2012)and Bone Stone Shell (2013–2014) at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. She was also included in Wunderrūma: New Zealand Jewellery, a touring exhibition that showed at Galerie Handwerk in Munich, The Dowse Art Museum and Auckland Art Gallery.

In 1995 Walker moved to Germany, and from 1995 to 2001 studied under jeweller Otto Kunzli at the 'Klasse Kunzli' at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München in Munich. In Munich, Walker established a successful international career as a jeweller, including being recognised with the 2010 Françoise van den Bosch Award for "work of an outstanding quality that influences and appeals to younger generations of artists internationally". In 2009 Walker returned to Wellington with her partner, jeweller Karl Fritsch.

Lisa Walker ONZM (born 1967) is a contemporary New Zealand jeweller.

Born in Wellington in 1967, Walker graduated from Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin, in 1988 with a Certificate in Craft Design. In Dunedin her tutors included German-trained jeweller Georg Beer and Swiss-trained jeweller Kobi Bosshard. After completing her studies, Walker moved to Auckland, where along with Areta Wilkinson, Anna Wallis and Helen O'Connor she established the jewellery workshop Workshop 6.