About
María Ignacia Walker was trained as a jeweller and works through different artistic disciplines. She approaches art by working with metal, experimenting with material, using her craftsmanship to make jewellery, body pieces, objects and installations.
Her ‘Indoors Gardens’ collection explores the question “What would a forest immortalized in metal look like?”. Speaking about this series, María has stated: “These gardens renew the concept of ecology by immortalizing the native vegetation of the forests of southern Chile. They contrast the vegetal contemplation and southern melancholy with the hardness and metallic shine, offering a hypnotic, elegant and alive work.”
María graduated in 2007 at the Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile in Art Direction. In 2015 she complete her studies in Florence obtaining a MFA in Jewellery and Body Ornaments at Alchimia Jewellery School, supported by a scholoarship from the Chilean Ministry of Culture (Fondart). In 2018 she is invited to Khio, Oslo National Academy of Art, to take part to a special artist in residence program in the metal department. In the last years Maria have been traveling to America, Asia and Europe giving lectures and workshops.
Maria is currently based in Florence where she teaches in Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence and she travels for exhibitions and fairs.
