Françoise van den Bosch Foundation Prize 2010

On the recommendation of this year’s jury, Ted Noten (winner Françoise van den Bosch Award 2008), Marjan Unger (art historian, jewellery specialist), Hilde De Decker (teacher jewellery design Sint Lucas Antwerp, Belgium), and Paul Mertz (member of the board of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation), the Foundation announces that Lisa Walker wins the Françoise van den Bosch Award 2010.


Lisa Walker (Wellington, New Zealand, 1967) studied Craft Design at Otago Polytechnic Art School, Dunedin (NZ) from 1988-89. Afterwords she travelled and worked in Australia, Great Britain and Asia for two years. From 1995-2001 she studied in the Klasse Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Since then she lived and worked in Munich. At the end of 2009 she and her family will emigrate to Wellington. Lisa Walker’s radical work is continuously pushing the borders of the accepted and expected. She is engaged projects with fellow artists, and gives workshops and lectures all around the world.
www.lisawalker.de