Layla Walter New Zealand, b. 1975

LAYLA WALTER

b. 1975 Wellington New Zealand

Layla Walter is a New Zealand glass artist and maker who has gained significant recognition for her distinctive and individual works in cast glass. 

Walter graduated with a BA in Applied Arts in 1998 and since her graduation, has worked concurrently in her own practice and as an assistant to some predominant glass artists, both here in NZ and overseas. She has been invited to teach and talk about glass casting in NZ, Australia, America, Canada and Germany.

For several years, Walter worked alongside New Zealand’s leading glass sculptor, Ann Robinson.  Walter's work is held  in significant public institutions in New Zealand (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and Auckland Museum).

Walter’s work has been selected to represent New Zealand in museums and cultural embassies around the world; in particular, the collection held by NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade who have placed Walter’s work in Egypt, Iran, France, and USA. 

Walter's  glass has been selected on six separate occasions for the Corning Museum of Glass New Glass Review, where thousands apply for inclusion in an annual list of only 100 artists internationally, who are at the leading edge of current and relevant glass practice today. She has been included as one of only two object makers in Richard Wolfe’s curated exhibition ‘Our People – Our Land’ at ARTIS Gallery.

Walter continues a tradition of cast glass, working with techniques which are highly skilled and complex, often using very personal representations of weaving or native flora and fauna carved in bas-relief.