Liz Walker
Sculptor
Liz is a gleaner, collector and re-user who, working from her studio in North Fitzroy manipulates recycled corrugated iron, pressed metal and found objects into sculptural forms which explore social and environmental themes. She has shown widely in both group and solo exhibitions and has been awarded a number of prizes, grants and residencies .Her work is held in private collections in Malaysia and Japan and public and private collections throughout Australia including the Bathurst Regional Gallery.
Curriculum vitae
Education
2007- 2008 Master of Fine Art, RMIT
2005-2006 Bachelor of Fine Art, drawing, with distinction, RMIT
2003-2004 Diploma of Visual Arts, painting, RMIT
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Liz Walker: Nature’s table, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
A trace of residence, Brunswick Art Space, Brunswick
2011 The Intra Muros Project, Sydney Road, Brunswick
Nature’s table, Birrarung, Laughing Waters, Eltham
Ned Kelly’s Kitchen, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
2009 A case for change, Sub 12, The Substation, Newport
What if a thought can’t be put into words? RMIT Union First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2008 You can’t argue with dust, Area Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy
2006 Weapons of Mass Distraction Two, RMIT Union First Site Gallery, City
Weapons of Mass Distraction, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray
People Get Ready, the Old Fire Station Café Gallery, and Preston
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 This is a Marquette show, MARS Gallery, Port Melbourne
Finalist- The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum
Finalist- Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak, Vic
Visible Horizon, AIRY Gallery, Kofu, Japan
Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2011 Voices, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Pathways, Whittlesea Council Great Hall, Whittlesea, Vic
Flourish, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
finalist-Lorne Sculpture, Lorne 2011
Finalist- Flanagan Art Prize, St Patricks Collage, Ballarat, Vic
Finalist- Tessellaar Sculpture Prize, Silvan, Vic
Finalist-St Michael Archangel Prize, St Michaels Grammar, St Kilda
Finalist- Books beyond words…Evolution, east Gippsland Art gallery, Bairnsdale
Finalist-ArTecycle, Incinerator Art Complex, Moonee Ponds
Finalist- Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
S.A.F.E Inaugural Rural Art Prize, Seymour,
Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
Entry, Brunswick Arts, Little Breese St, Brunswick
2010 Finalist- Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Double Bay, NSW
Finalist- Moreart Public Art Exhibition, City of Moreland
Finalist- Toyota Spirit Gallery Sculpture Exhibition, Beatie St, Port Melbourne
Finalist- Walker Street Gallery Emerging Artist Awards, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
Finalist-St Michaels Archangel Art Prize, St Michaels Grammar, St Kilda
Finalist-Mt Eyre Vinyard Art Prize, Hunter Valley, NSW
Finalist-Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
Finalist-ArTecycle, Incinerator Art Complex, Moonee Ponds
Finalist-Human Rights Art and film festival, Compassion and Commitment, Collingwood Gallery,
Finalist-Williamstown contemporary Art Prize, The Sub Station, Newport
Place and belonging, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Finalist-Montalto Finalist Sculpture Prize, Red Hill, Vic
2009 Finalist-Lorne Sculpture Exhibition, Lorne, Vic
Finalist -Tessellaar Sculpture Prize, Silvan
Finalist-Books, beyond words, East Gippsland Art Gallery
Finalist-Growth, Moreland Sculpture Show
Me and my Toyota, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
Finalist-ARTrecycle exhibition, Incinerator Complex, Moonee Ponds
Finalist-Toorak village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
Finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Newport
Counihan Gallery Women’s Salon Exhibition, Signs of Hope
Finalist-St Michaels Archangel Emerging Artist Prize
Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2008 Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
Building 49, RMIT MFA Graduating Exhibition
Metal, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
Finalist-Cryptozoology, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
Finalist-the future is now, Moreland Sculpture Show
Finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Substation, Newport
Finalist-Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak 2008 Women’s Salon, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Sustainable Living Festival, Make Sustainability Your Sport, BMW Edge, Federation Square
2007 Contemporary Sculpture Association Bonanza exhibition
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Crossroads Exhibition 2007
Finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Substation Arts Centre, Newport
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
Women’s Salon Exhibition Homely / Unhomely, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2006 Verisimilitude, RMIT Graduate Drawing Exhibition, Jackman Gallery, St Kilda
Women’s Salon Exhibition” Sister Ships”, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Notations 2, Passage Gallery, RMIT
2005 Art Holes Self Portrait Show, Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Two Women, Ten Years, One Show, Mitchelton Winery, Nagambie
Beneath the Surfaces, Fire Station, Bar and Bistro, Ivanhoe
Women’s Salon Exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2004 Couch Art Exhibition, Area Gallery, Fitzroy, as part of Fringe Festival
Graduation Exhibition, Cardigan 04, Diploma Visual Arts, RMIT, the Foundry
Awards and Grants
2012 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, highly commended
2011 City of Whittlesea, Mayoral Art Award
S.A.F.E. Rural Art Sculpture Award
Brunswick Art Space Entry Exhibition Award
2010 Hill End Artist in Residence, Bathurst, NSW, January 2012
Laughing Waters Artist –in-Residence April 1 – 30, 2011
Moreland City Council Community Project Grant
Commended, Cancer Council Art Awards
Yarra Sculpture Gallery Exhibition Award
2009 Emerging Artist Award, Lorne Sculpture Exhibition
Me and my Toyota, Toyota Spirit Gallery, highly commended
2007 Barnes prize, CSA Bonanza exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2006 Area Contemporary Art Space Exhibition Award
2005 Artholes Gallery Self Portrait Exhibition Award, Fitzroy
Professional Activities
2011 Sculpture for Schools workshop (working with Mathew Harding), Lorne
Express yourself workshops, Bushfire Recovery Program, Whittlesea
2009 Sculpture for Schools workshop (working with Greg Johns), Lorne Sculpture Exhibition
2008 Me, myself and I educational workshop, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Bibliography
2009 Sunday Arts ABC TV, interview by Namilla Benson, Episode 29, 1/11/09
2008 Etchings Magazine, 4th edition, Don’t Water the Cactus, 2008
2006 The Big Weekend, Herald Sun, 7 July,
Silent voices, outspoken art, Footscray Times, 11 July, 2006
People –watching on canvas, Melbourne Times Northerly Edition, 19 April
Focus on People, Art of City Living, Moreland Leader, 10 April
Collections
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Seymour Art Gallery
Private collections in Malaysia, Japan and Australia
Education
2007- 2008 Master of Fine Art, RMIT
2005-2006 Bachelor of Fine Art, drawing, with distinction, RMIT
2003-2004 Diploma of Visual Arts, painting, RMIT
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Liz Walker: Nature’s table, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
A trace of residence, Brunswick Art Space, Brunswick
2011 The Intra Muros Project, Sydney Road, Brunswick
Nature’s table, Birrarung, Laughing Waters, Eltham
Ned Kelly’s Kitchen, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
2009 A case for change, Sub 12, The Substation, Newport
What if a thought can’t be put into words? RMIT Union First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2008 You can’t argue with dust, Area Contemporary Art Space, Fitzroy
2006 Weapons of Mass Distraction Two, RMIT Union First Site Gallery, City
Weapons of Mass Distraction, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray
People Get Ready, the Old Fire Station Café Gallery, and Preston
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 This is a Marquette show, MARS Gallery, Port Melbourne
Finalist- The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum
Finalist- Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak, Vic
Visible Horizon, AIRY Gallery, Kofu, Japan
Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2011 Voices, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Pathways, Whittlesea Council Great Hall, Whittlesea, Vic
Flourish, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
finalist-Lorne Sculpture, Lorne 2011
Finalist- Flanagan Art Prize, St Patricks Collage, Ballarat, Vic
Finalist- Tessellaar Sculpture Prize, Silvan, Vic
Finalist-St Michael Archangel Prize, St Michaels Grammar, St Kilda
Finalist- Books beyond words…Evolution, east Gippsland Art gallery, Bairnsdale
Finalist-ArTecycle, Incinerator Art Complex, Moonee Ponds
Finalist- Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
S.A.F.E Inaugural Rural Art Prize, Seymour,
Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
Entry, Brunswick Arts, Little Breese St, Brunswick
2010 Finalist- Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Double Bay, NSW
Finalist- Moreart Public Art Exhibition, City of Moreland
Finalist- Toyota Spirit Gallery Sculpture Exhibition, Beatie St, Port Melbourne
Finalist- Walker Street Gallery Emerging Artist Awards, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
Finalist-St Michaels Archangel Art Prize, St Michaels Grammar, St Kilda
Finalist-Mt Eyre Vinyard Art Prize, Hunter Valley, NSW
Finalist-Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
Finalist-ArTecycle, Incinerator Art Complex, Moonee Ponds
Finalist-Human Rights Art and film festival, Compassion and Commitment, Collingwood Gallery,
Finalist-Williamstown contemporary Art Prize, The Sub Station, Newport
Place and belonging, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Finalist-Montalto Finalist Sculpture Prize, Red Hill, Vic
2009 Finalist-Lorne Sculpture Exhibition, Lorne, Vic
Finalist -Tessellaar Sculpture Prize, Silvan
Finalist-Books, beyond words, East Gippsland Art Gallery
Finalist-Growth, Moreland Sculpture Show
Me and my Toyota, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
Finalist-ARTrecycle exhibition, Incinerator Complex, Moonee Ponds
Finalist-Toorak village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
Finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Newport
Counihan Gallery Women’s Salon Exhibition, Signs of Hope
Finalist-St Michaels Archangel Emerging Artist Prize
Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2008 Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
Building 49, RMIT MFA Graduating Exhibition
Metal, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
Finalist-Cryptozoology, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
Finalist-the future is now, Moreland Sculpture Show
Finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Substation, Newport
Finalist-Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak 2008 Women’s Salon, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Sustainable Living Festival, Make Sustainability Your Sport, BMW Edge, Federation Square
2007 Contemporary Sculpture Association Bonanza exhibition
Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Crossroads Exhibition 2007
Finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Substation Arts Centre, Newport
Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
Women’s Salon Exhibition Homely / Unhomely, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2006 Verisimilitude, RMIT Graduate Drawing Exhibition, Jackman Gallery, St Kilda
Women’s Salon Exhibition” Sister Ships”, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
Notations 2, Passage Gallery, RMIT
2005 Art Holes Self Portrait Show, Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Two Women, Ten Years, One Show, Mitchelton Winery, Nagambie
Beneath the Surfaces, Fire Station, Bar and Bistro, Ivanhoe
Women’s Salon Exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2004 Couch Art Exhibition, Area Gallery, Fitzroy, as part of Fringe Festival
Graduation Exhibition, Cardigan 04, Diploma Visual Arts, RMIT, the Foundry
Awards and Grants
2012 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, highly commended
2011 City of Whittlesea, Mayoral Art Award
S.A.F.E. Rural Art Sculpture Award
Brunswick Art Space Entry Exhibition Award
2010 Hill End Artist in Residence, Bathurst, NSW, January 2012
Laughing Waters Artist –in-Residence April 1 – 30, 2011
Moreland City Council Community Project Grant
Commended, Cancer Council Art Awards
Yarra Sculpture Gallery Exhibition Award
2009 Emerging Artist Award, Lorne Sculpture Exhibition
Me and my Toyota, Toyota Spirit Gallery, highly commended
2007 Barnes prize, CSA Bonanza exhibition, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2006 Area Contemporary Art Space Exhibition Award
2005 Artholes Gallery Self Portrait Exhibition Award, Fitzroy
Professional Activities
2011 Sculpture for Schools workshop (working with Mathew Harding), Lorne
Express yourself workshops, Bushfire Recovery Program, Whittlesea
2009 Sculpture for Schools workshop (working with Greg Johns), Lorne Sculpture Exhibition
2008 Me, myself and I educational workshop, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Bibliography
2009 Sunday Arts ABC TV, interview by Namilla Benson, Episode 29, 1/11/09
2008 Etchings Magazine, 4th edition, Don’t Water the Cactus, 2008
2006 The Big Weekend, Herald Sun, 7 July,
Silent voices, outspoken art, Footscray Times, 11 July, 2006
People –watching on canvas, Melbourne Times Northerly Edition, 19 April
Focus on People, Art of City Living, Moreland Leader, 10 April
Collections
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Seymour Art Gallery
Private collections in Malaysia, Japan and Australia
