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Awards | Collections | Publications | Biography | References
Please contact Wally to discuss a commission or view his work.
1984
West Midlands Arts grant
1989
Commendation – 'Armschmucke', Pforzheim
1993
Goldsmiths Craft Council – Commendation Senior Silversmiths
1996
Best exhibition award (sculpture, drawing, silver) Glasgow Mayfest
West Midlands Arts Grant
1999
Goldsmiths Crafts Council -Commendation Designer Silversmiths senior
2001
Goldsmiths Crafts Council – First prize Designer Silversmiths Senior
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship as artist in residence at ANU, Canberra
2002
West Midlands Arts – Creative Ambitions Award
2003
Goldsmiths Craft Council, Commendations in 2 categories
2004
Arts Council grant
First prize jewellery – 'Birmingham Brilliantly'
2006
Goldsmiths Craft Council - Silversmithing - Commendation
2007/8
Wingate Scholarship, ceramic shell bronze casting, Philadelphia
2008
Vermont Artists Studio, Printmaking
Residency at Kohler foundry, Wisconsin
Winner of competition to design 2 wine coolers for the
Birmingham Jewellery and Giftware Federation.
2009
Goldsmiths Craft Council -Silver prize for 'Chasing' and commendations for modelling and Design.
Contemporary Arts Society, Jewellery
East Midlands Arts, jewellery
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, jewellery
Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London, jewellery,
Worcester Museum & Art Gallery - silver goblet
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff - beaker and vase
Vase presented by the AOC to Secretary of State David Blunkett
De Beer’s trophies for The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth diamond stakes
Chased silver dishes of silver with diamonds pave set in white gold
Sheffield Millenium silver canteen, cutlery
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, jewellery
Royal Museum of Cornwall
Kohler collection, USA, 'Cast iron'
Margo Grant Walsh C20th silver collection, USA, silver
Prof. Seymour Rabinovitch collection of silver, V & A museum, London
Kohler collection, sculpture
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA, Jewellery - collars, pin & ear rings
Alter cross's for parish church, Cheshire
'Jewellery Concepts and Technology' by Oppi Untracht (pub. Hale N.Y & London)
'Encyclopaedia of Jewellery Techniques' by Jinks McGrath (pub Quarto)
Jewellery design, pub. Quarto
'Contemporary Silver' by Prof. Seymour Rabinovitch and Helen Clifford,
'Silvermithing' by Keith Smith
5000 years of cutlery, Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.
'20th Century silver' Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
Saatchi Gallery website
'Collecting by Design: Metal and silverwork of the 20th century',
The Margo Grant Walsh collection. Published by Yale 2008
'Virtual Gallery of Contemporary Fine Metalwork',
Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Craft & Design Magasine, Jan/Feb 2009
1000 Garden Designs, to be Pub. by Laurence King
1946
Born
1964
West Sussex School of Art and Design
1968
Chelsea School of Art, Sculpture Dip.A.D. (B.A)
1972
Making one of a kind cast and woven jewellery
1978
First one-person exhibition, Electrum gallery, London
1975-2000
P/T and associate lecturer in Art, design and jewellery
1982/88
Worked for Louis Osman, Architect and Goldsmith
1987
Jewellery, 2-person exhibition, The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1989
One person exhibition, Art Wear, New York
1989/92
Designing and producing production jewellery for mail order and retail
1993/97
Sculptured relief’s and bronze vessels and candlesticks
1994
Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and City of London
'Shadows' series of 1-person exhibitions with sculpture, drawing, and jewellery
1995-
Commissions - designing and making Silver
2000
6 months travelling and De Beers Diamond trophy for Ascot
2003
Residency, 6 months, School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
(Queen Elizabeth Scholarship)
2004
Arts in Industry residency at John Michael Kohler Arts Centre, USA. (Cast Iron)
2006
Gold cup commission and 'We are brothers you and I'
2007
Residency, Herefordshire College of art, Printmaking
Commission for parapets in cast aluminium for a road bridge over the Grand Union canal, Northampton
2007/8
Wingate Scholarship, ceramic shell bronze casting, Philadelphia, USA
2008
Residency with Vermont Print studio, Vermont, USA
Arts in Industry residency at John Michael Kohler iron foundry, Wisconsin, USA
2009
Exhibition of silver at the Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
2010
International cast iron 'Sculpture Cymru', Kidwelly Castle
Inhorgenta, Munich, as part of 'Silver Week'.
2011
Inhorgenta, Munich as part of 'Silver week'
"...We were delighted to have you as Artist- in –Residence in the Gold and Silversmithing workshop. Your contribution to our teaching program and interaction with our undergraduate and graduate students was most effective. Your own work plan and routines were impressive and provided an invaluable role model for our students who aspire to be practicing professional artists. Your ability and interest to interact with the other specialist areas in our school also impressed. It was an object lesson on how to maximize resources and expertise at our university."
(David Williams, Director, School of Art, Australian National University, 2003)
