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.

Solo Exhibitions include I Fuck Mountains Utopian Slumps Gallery, Melbourne,  Dark Gully/Psychic War at Chalk Horse Gallery in 2010 and Circle of Eagles, at Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, in 2009.  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.

Upcoming solo shows for 2011 at Utopian Slumps, Melbourne ‘Dark Gully/Sex Drawings’ opening 10 November 2011.

Amber Wallis is currently on the cover of Australian Art Collector October – December 2011.

She currently lives and works in Palm Beach, NSW and is represented by Utopian Slumps, Melbourne

More stuff over at http://www.amberwallis.blogspot.com/