About

“Ambers work reveals a poetic transformation of experience. Emotions, feelings and materials have fused in a lyrical abstraction where we move through a field of inventive mark-making, carried by a playful disposition of varied form, colour and line” Nicholas Harding September 2008

Wallis’ works have featured in numerous exhibitions and publications in Australia, Canada and the USA. Wallis completed a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Photomedia at the Canberra School of Art, ACT and participated in an exchange program with Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Canada in 2002. She completed her Master of Visual Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne in 2008 and was the winner of the tenth Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2008.

During her scholarship she worked from studios at ISCP, New York, Redbird Studios, Montreal and completed a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Wallis was also resident artist at the Canberra School of Art in 2009 and a recipient of an Artstart grant from the Australia Council of the Arts in 2010.

Selected group exhibitions include Territorial Pissings, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2010; The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2009; Chalk Reindeer, Chalk Horse, Sydney, 2009; South, Monster Children Gallery, Sydney, 2009; Brett Whiteley Travelling Arts Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio AGNSW, Sydney, 2008; Thank God We Died Together, TCB art inc., Melbourne, 2008; Autumn 2008, Moving Galleries, Melbourne, 2008; Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria, 2008; Swans and Ammo, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2007; and sepia hell, Ballan and Pannan Galleries, Melbourne, 2006. Wallis held her first solo exhibition, Circle of Eagles, at Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, in 2009.

Upcoming solo shows for 2010 at Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney in August and Utopian Slumps Gallery, Melbourne in September.

She currently lives and works in Palm Beach, NSW.