About Walter Brecely - Artist, Sculptor & Tutor
Southern Highlands NSW

Walter studied Fine Arts (Certificate of Fine Arts) and an Associate Diploma of Arts (Fine Arts) - at the Illawarra Institute of Technology Goulburn Campus in 1993 and 1994, before beginning a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts in 1997 majoring in Jewellery and Object Design. In 2000, he completed his Degree with a Bachelor of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong (majoring in Sculpture) while also completing courses in Advanced Techniques in Engraving and Stone Setting, and Foundry Metal Casting.

During his arts career, Walter has had multiple solo exhibitions and participated in over forty group shows. In 2005, Walter's work was exhibited in the Hong Kong Biennale. In 2008, Walter was the 3D winner of the Goulburn Regional Art Award. Walter has been a finalist in multiple art prizes such as the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Prize, John Fries Memorial Prize, the Veolia Environmental Services National Art Award, and Artecycle Gallery Art Prize.

In 2016, 2017 and 2018 Walter worked as the Lead Illustrator for the Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads Virtual Reality Australian/Canadian Co-Production, a Canadian Australian co-production jointly funded by Screen Australia, the Australian Federal Government and the Canada Media Fund. Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads won the 2020 Reader’s Choice Prize as part of the 2020 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, and received an Honourable Mention in the 2017 Turn On Digital Literature Prize.

In 2023 Walter was the winner of the BOCCA (Best of City and Country Art) Sculpture Prize.

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Walter hosts classes  in Jewellery and Small Sculpture in Bowral and Goulburn - see the workshops page for more info.