Lisa Walker – Unwearable
Opening Thursday 22 January, 6-8pm.
23 January – 7 March
Galleries 1 + 2

http://www.craftvic.asn.au/gallery/2009/walker.html

Unwearable is a provocation. It matters when a jeweller chooses such a confrontational title for an exhibition of work from the past fifteen years. What’s the angle here? What is Walker’s game?

If you are at all familiar with Walker’s work, one of New Zealand’s most important contemporary jewellery practitioners, you won’t be surprised. The word ‘unwearable’ does what all the best jewellery in this exhibition does when you consider putting it on: it aggressively challenges us on a material, conceptual and sometimes even practical level. Some of Walker’s jewellery is entirely unwearable, but the fact that we keep asking ourselves what would happen if we put it on is important. This is the connection to jewellery that is central to Walker’s practice.

Public Program -

‘Double Stitch’ lecture. Join Curator Damian Skinner as he discusses the work of Lisa Walker and Melinda Young.

Date: Friday 6 March 2009, 2pm
Venue: Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Cost: Free