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Where? Wear? Worn? Lisa Walker’s exhibition Unwearable Reviewed by Roseanne Bartley

Article  /  Review   CriticalThinking
 
Published: 22.04.2009
Where? Wear? Worn? Lisa Walker’s exhibition Unwearable Reviewed by Roseanne Bartley.
Display of the installation Unwearable

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Intro
Walker is clever. She has recognised jewellery’s capacity to provoke and to critique notions of the ‘decorative’. In her practice she challenges the fundamental premise of the craft, one that historically has preference for skill, technique, preciousness and glamour.