Biography and CV
Collecting, repurposing and extending the material possibilities of natural ephemera, found detritus and recycled domestic objects play a key role in a practice investigating contemporry social and environmental concerns.
Liz uses an extensive range of resources gathered from around the inner city and rural sites to construct sculpture, assemblage, installations and ephemeral site specific responses to people, time and place. She is fascinated by the aesthetics of decay and the visual language created by the passage of time; willingly exploiting this to magnify the underlying issues explored in her work.
In recent years community engagement through creative workshops and collaborative project delivery has become increasingly inportant to her practice and development as an artist.
Liz has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions, undertaken public artworks, received awards, grants and residencies and her work is held in public and privte collections in Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Ireland.
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
2024 The call of the wild, & gallery, Sorrento
2023 Land, sea & sky, BLACKROOM GALLERY, Cook Street Collective, Flinders
The last supper,Lightbox Commission, Mornington Regional Gallery, Mornington
While we were sleeping, The Foul Luggage Store, Quarantine Station, Point Nepean, Portsea
2022 Take a walk on the wild side,The Vitrine, Benalla Art Gallery
2019 Hell's Bells, Glass Cube Gallery, Frankston Arts Centre
2019 Natural Selection, The G.R.A.I.N. Stire, Nathalia
2018 Listen up ,Montsalvat Grounds Exhibition, Montsalvat ( August 21 - October 15)
2018 Salt Lake,Windowspace Beeac, Beeac, Victoria
2017 Shorelines, Qdos Arts, Lorne, Victoria
2015 City of dreams North, South, East, West, Morgan Court, Glenroy
2014 City of dreams , EC Window, Brunswick
2014 The Wave,Counihan Gallery In Brunswick
2013 Birds of a Feather (with Avis Gardner), Bolin Bolin Gallery, Bulleen
2012 Fusion (with Kerry Strauss), Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
2012 Liz Walker:Nature’s table, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
2012 A trace of residence, Brunswick Art Space, Brunswick
2011 The Intra Muros Project, Forecourt,Mechanics Institute, Sydney Rd, Brunswick
2011 Nature's Table, Birrarung House, Laughing Waters Artist-in- Residence,Eltham
2011 Ned Kelly’s Kitchen, Yarra Sculpture Gallery,Collingwood
2009 A case for change, Sub 12, The Substation, Newport
2009 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
2006 Weapons Of Mass Distraction, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray
2006 People Get Ready, The Old Fire Station Café Gallery, Preston
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 finalist Yering Station Sculpture Prize, Yering
2024 finalist-Neerim Bower Sculpture Acquisition,Free as a bird, Neerim South- winner
2023 finalist- Banyule works on paper award,Gallery 275, Ivanhoe
2022 finalist-Burrinja Climate Change Biennale, Upwey
Polica Point Artist In Residence Retrospective, Quarantine Station, Point Nepean, Portsea
2021 Art in the time of COVID 19, commission by Nillumbik Council, Barn Gallery, Montsalvat
finalist- Banyule Works on Paper Award, Gallery 275, Ivanhoe
The Overwintering Project Westernport, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Me and UooUoo Sculpture Trail,Royal Childrens hospital Foundation, Melbourne
Flora, Heritage Hill, Dandenong
2020 Art Aid,Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale
2019 Making the invisible visible, G.R.A.I.N.Store, Nathalia
Holy honest confluences, ACU Melbourne gallery, Fitzroy
2019 Works by women-selected works from the Council's Cultural Collection, Great Hall, Civic
Centre, Whittlesea
2019 Reflections-Looking forward, looking back, Great Hall, Civic Centre, Whittlesea
2019 finalist-Toorak Sculpture Exhibition, Toorak
2019 finalist-Southern Buoy Gallery Portrait Prize, Southern Buoy Gallery and Studios, Mornington
2018 Branded,Southern Buoy Gallery and Studios, Mornington
2018 FAC Open, Frankston Art Centre, Frankston
2018 Under Southern Skies, Southern Buoy Studios, Mornington
2017 finalist-Climate Change Biennale,Burrinja Art Centre, Upwey, Victoria
2017 RMIT First Site is 21, RMIT First Site Gallery, MElbourne
2017 finalist- Nillumbik Art Prize, Barn Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham Victoria
2017 finalist- Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Winery, Red Hill
2016 Bonanza, CSA, Yarra Sculpture Gallery
2016 Factivism, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2016 Birdhaus,Birds Gallery, Kew
2016 Toolangi Small Sculpture, Discovery Centre, Toolangi
2016 &Art Fair, CBD, Melbourne
2016 Water, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
2016 Laughing Waters Road, Barn Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham
2016 CSA Survey Show, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
2016 Sculpture trail, Lorne Sculpture Biennale
2016 Laughing Waters Road, Barn Gallery,Montsalvat, Eltham
2016 Maquette, &Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Bonanza,Yarra Sculpture Gallery, COllingwood
2015 Moreland Summer Show, Science Friction, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2015 Pixel, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
2015 All things botanical, Redrock Regional Gallery,
2015 Magpie,(with Dr Ros Bandt & Marion Williams), Frank Tate Gallery, Fryerstown
2015 finalist - Who's looking at you?, Cambridge Studio Gallery, Collingwood
2014 finalist- MoreArt Public Art Exhibition, Moreland Station waiting room, Coburg
2014 Golf Club!, Brunswick Arts, Brunswick
2014 finalist- The Great Mandala, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2014 Art concerning the environment,Scope Gallery, Warrnambool
2014 finalist- Lorne Sculpture Biennale, Sculpturescape
2014 finalist- Toorak Sculpture Exhibition, Toorak Village
2013 In the public interest, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2013 finalist- Books beyond words- REVOLUTION, East Gippsland Art Gallery
2013 finalist- The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum
2013 finalist- Artecycle, Incinerator Complex, Moonee Ponds
2013 finalist- Toorak Sculpture Exhibition, Toorak village
2013 Home, Reframing Craft and Domesticity, Hatch Contemporary Art Space Ivanho
2013 Mum and Dad Exhibition , Upstairs at the Napier, Collingwood
2013 3D Sustainability, Yarra Sculpture gallery, Collingwood
2012 Summer Show, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2012 finalist- A brave new world, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2012 finalist- St George Art Prize, Hurstville City Museum and Gallery, Hurstville, NSW
2012 finalist -Moreart2012, City of Moreland public art exhibition
2012 finalist WNAP Travelling Exhibition,National Archives of Australia, Parkes , ACT
2012 Marquette Group Exhibition, MARS Gallery, Port Melbourne
2012 finalist-The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum
2012 Visible Horizon Return, The Library Artspace, North Fitzroy
2012 finalist-Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak, Vic
2012 Visible Horizon, AIRY Gallery, Kofu, Japan
2012 Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford
2011 Voices, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2011 Pathways, Whittlesea Council Great Hall, Whittlesea, Vic
2011 Flourish, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2011 finalist- Lorne Sculpture, Lorne 2011
2011 finalist- Flanagan Art Prize, St Patricks Collage, Ballarat, Vic
2011 finalist-Tessellaar Sculpture Prize, Silvan, Vic
2011 finalist-St Michael Archangel Prize, St Michaels Grammar, St Kilda
2011 finalist-Books beyond words…Evolution, east Gippsland Art gallery, Bairnsdale
2011 finalist-aRtECYCLE, Incinerator Art Complex, Moonee ponds
2011 finalist-Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
2010 finalist-Woollhara Small Sculpture Prize, Double Bay, NSW
2010 finalist-Moreart Public Art Show, City of Moreland
2010 finalist-Toyota Spirit Gallery Sculpture Exhibition, Beatie St, Port Melbourne
2010 finalist-Walker Street Gallery emerging Artist Awards, Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong
2010 finalist-St Michaels Archangel Art Prize, St Michaels Grammar, St Kilda
2010 finalist-Mt Eyre Vinyard Art Prize, Hunter Valley, NSW
2010 finalist-Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
2010 finalist-aRtECYCLE, Incinerator Art Complex, Moonee Ponds
2010 finalist-Human Rights Art & film festival, Compassion and Commitment,Collingwood Gallery
2010 finalist-Williamstown contemporary Art Prize, Substation , Newport
2010 Place and belonging, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2010 finalist-Montalto Sculpture Prize, Red Hill, Vic
2009 finalist-Lorne Sculpture Exhibition, Lorne, Vic
2009 finalist-Tessellaar Sculpture Prize, Silvan
2009 finalist-Books,beyond words, East Gippsland Art Gallery
2009 finalist-Growth, Moreland Sculpture Show
2009 Me and my Toyota, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2009 finalist-ARTrecycle , Incinerator Complex, Moonee Ponds
2009 finalist-Toorak village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
2009 finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art prize, Substatin , Newport
2009 Counihan Gallery Women’s Salon Exhibition,Signs of Hope
2009 finalist-St Michaels Archangel Emerging Artist prize, PRahran
2009 Sustainable Living Festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2008 Bonanza, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
2008 Building 49, RMIT MFA Graduating Exhibition
2008 Metal, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Collingwood
2008 finalist-Cryptozoology, Toyota Spirit Gallery, Port Melbourne
2008 finalist-the future is now, Moreland Sculpture Show
2008 finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize, Substation,Newport
2008 finalist-Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture, Toorak
2008 Woman's Salon Exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2008 Sustainable Living Festival,Make Sustainability Your Sport,BMW Edge Fed Square
2007 Contemporary Sculpture Association Bonanza exhibition
2007 Toyota Community Spirit Gallery Crossroads Exhibition, Port Melbourne
2007 finalist-Williamstown Contemporary Art Prize,Substation Arts Centre, Newport
2007 Linden Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
2007 Women’s Salon Exhibition Homely / Unhomely, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2006 Verisimilitude, RMIT Graduate Drawing Exhibition, Jackman Gallery, St Kilda
2006 Women’s Salon Exhibition”Sister Ships”, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2006 Notations 2, Passage Gallery, RMIT
2005 Art Holes Self Portrait Show, Gertrude St, Fitzroy
2005 Two Women, Ten Years, One Show, Mitchelton Winery, Nagambie
2005 Beneath The Surfaces, Fire Station, Bar and Bistro, Ivanhoe
2005 Womens Salon Exhibition, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick
2004 Couch Art Exhibition , Area Gallery, Fitzroy ,as part of Fringe Festival
2004 Graduation Exhibition, Cardigan 04, Diploma Visual Arts, RMIT, The Foundry,
AWARDS RESIDENCIES GRANTS
2024 FLOAT Artist in Residence, Lake Tyers, East Gippsland
2024 Best in show, Blairgowrie Yacht Squdron Exhibition, Blairgowrie
2024 equal first prize, Small Sculpture, Neerim Bower Sculpture Acquisition, Neerim South
2023 Carrs Park Artist in Rresidence, Georges River Council, NSW
2018 Police Point Artist in Residence, Portsea
2017 Family Choice Award, Montalto Sculpture Prize, Montalto Winery, Red Hill
2017 Art + Climate=Chenge Acland Street Public Art Commission ( with Avis Gardner)
shortlisted
2017 G.R.A.I.N.Store Artist in Residence ( with Avis Gardner),March 2019 , Nathalia
2016 Artsbox Footscray Artist In Residence, City of Maribyrnong, 1 -30 November, 2017
2016 Banyule City Council Pinpoint Art in Public Places grant, with Avis Gardner
2015 Moreland City Council Community Project Grant
2015 Montsalvat Artist in Residence, Montsalvat, Eltham
2014 Contemporary Sculptors Association Bonanza Cash Prize
2013 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize, Museum South Australia,Highly Commended
2012 Pink Lady Art Exhibition Sculpture Excellence Award
2012 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize,Museum South Australia, Highly Commended
2011 City of Whittlesea, Mayoral Art Award
2011 S.A.F.E. Rural Art Sculpture Award
2011 Brunswick Arts Entry Exhibition Award
2010 Hill End Artist In Residence, Bathurst, NSW,January 2012
2010 Laughing Waters Artist–in-Residence April 1 – 30, 2011
2010 Moreland City Council Community Project Grant
2010 Commended, Cancer Council Art Awards
2010 Yarra Sculpture Gallery Exhibition Award
2009 Emerging Artist Award, Lorne Sculpture Exhibition
2009 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,Female Portrait Prize, Fitzroy
PUBLIC ART
2017 Montalto Winery, Red Hill
2017 Mapping Messages, Footscray Library
2015 Fly away Peter, come back Paul, Whittlesea Community Activity Centre, Whittlesea
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHOPS
2024 Flinders big Beach Clean Up, workshop and installation
2023 Creative Bush Creatures, Benalla Art Gallery
Creative Marine Creatures, Watsons Pavillion, Portsea
Express Yourselfie, Red Hill Hall, Red Hill
Creative Creatures, Foul Luggage Store, Quarantine Station, Point Nepean
2019 Mapping the Bay, Red Hill Consolidated School, Red Hill
Marking the nature of things, with Avis Gardner, G.R.A.I.N.Store, Nathalia
2019 Go! Glenroy Go!, Glenroy Street party and Glenroy Festival, with Avis Gardner
2019 Message Stones, Black Saturday Ten YEars On, Whittlesea Community Garden
2019 Mapping the Point, Point Nepean, Portsea
2018 Whittlesea Community Festival workshop, Whittlesea
2018 Spectacular Sea Dragon workshop, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, with Avis Gardner
Lorne
2017 All things botanical workshops, Qdos Arts, Lorne
2017 Backpackers for bugs, Whittlesea Commmunity Garden, Whittlesea, with Avis Gardner
2017 The forever forest, Whittlesea Community Garden, Whittlesea, with Adam Hoss Ayres
2017 Vintage books as planters, Whittlesea Community Gardem, Whittlesea
2016 Olympic Village Teapees, Olympic Village, Wenst Heidelberg, with Avis Gardner
2016 Sustainable Garden workshop, Whittlesea Community Garden, Whittlesea
2016 World Environment Day, Secret Garden, COPAC, Colac, with Avis Gardner
2015 The Rivers and Ranges Community Leadership Program, The tragedy of the
Commons , Artist in Residence
2015 Sustainable Insect Hotels Workshop (with Avis Gardner), Whittlesea Community Garden
2014 Shelter Workshop ( with Avis Gardner), Artplay, City of Melbourne
2014 You bring out the nest in me, Bushfire recovery workshop ( with Avis Gardner)
2013 Urban Cave Dreaming (with Avis Gardner) Ballarat city Council Interventions project
2012 Sustainable Garden Workshops, Whittlesea Community Garden
2011 Sculpture for Schools workshop (working with Mathew Harding), Lorne Sculpture 2011
2011 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
INDUSTRY MEMBERSHIPS
National Association of Visual Artists (NAVA)
Contemporary Sculptors Association (CSA)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Artist for change, True to life.words and photos by Kel Buckley, PIP Magazine p 78 - 82
David Bromley Into the Light, film, interview
Liz Walker Studio, Prisims, Volume 1, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
Environmental heart,Peninsula Essence, February edition
Inspiring waste, Southern Peninsula NEws, 18 January
Waste works for atists message,Westernport News, 18 January
2021 Art in the time of COVID 19, exhibition catalogue
2019 Exhibition rings true, Frankston Leader
2014 The Wave,exhibition essay, Jane O'Neill,June 2014
2014 Exhibitions seek to give voice to asylum experience,Mabel Kwong,rightnow.org.au,13 August
2014 Asylum Seeker Plight Carved In Frustration,The Melbourne Times, 16 July
2014 Ride The Wave of debate,Moreland Leader, 4 August
2013 Exhibition, out & About, Life & Style magazine, The Saturday Age, 2 March
2012 Melburnin', Trouble mag, P 36 - 37, April
2012 Nature’s Table provides a creative feast, Weekend Advocate, 26 May
2012 Gallery presents superb exhibitions, Central NSW Discover, May
2012 International Contemporary Artists,Vol lV,ICA Publishing,p/359
2010 Art sites, Moreland Leader, 4 October
2009 Sunday Arts ABC TV, interview by Namilla Benson, Episode 29, 1/11/09
2008 Artists get automatic recognition, Melbourne Times, 26 November
2008 Sculptors make best use of recycled materials for art’s sake,
Moreland Community News,March
2008 Bags of art, Leader newspaper.4 April
2008 Etchings Magazine, 4th edition, Don’t Water the Cactus
2007 Get with the spirit, Melbourne Times, Week 26 Volume 3
2006 If the message is written on a T-shirt…The Big Weekend, Herald Sun, 7 July
2006 Focus on People, Art of City Living, Moreland Leader, 10 April
2006 People –watching on canvas, Melbourne Times Northerly Edition,19 April
2006 Focus on People, Art of City Living, Moreland Leader, 10 April
2006 The Big Weekend, Herald Sun, 7 July,
2006 Silent voices, outspoken art, Footscray Times, 11 July, 2006
2006 If the message is written on a T-shirt…The Big Weekend, Herald Sun, 7 July
2006 Silent voices, outspoken art, Footscray Times, 11 July 2006 People 2006 People-watching on canvas, Melbourne Times Northerly Edition, 19 April
2006 Focus on People, Art of City Living, Moreland Leader, 10 April
COLLECTIONS
Bathurst Regional Gallery
Seymour Regional Art Gallery
City of Whittlesea
Maribyrnong City Council
Montalto Winery
Private collections in Australia, Malaysia, Japan and Ireland