Peter Walker

Peter Walker is a visual artist, furniture designer and surfboard builder. His material of choice is timber, in all of its typologies and manipulations. Walker's creative practice is entwined with teaching and mentoring as well as developing industry-related and cultural initiatives, which highlight the importance of art and design in our society, ecology and education systems.

With a career spanning more than three decades and two continents, he has played an active role in connecting important art and design institutions between the USA and Australia. Currently he leads the University of South Australia's Master of Design program as Program Director and 2022 marks his tenth year of tenure with the institution. This follows from a decade of teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the USA, where he became an Associate Professor and Head of Furniture and Design. In the late 1990s, Walker headed the JamFactory's Furniture Design Studio, mentoring emerging designer/makers who have gone on to enjoy significant professional success. An esteemed educator with an extending influence, Walker is the logical choice to be the first solo exhibitor of this biennial series of exhibitions, presented by JamFactory in partnership with the University of South Australia since 2015.