AMBER WALLIS
Born 1978, New Zealand. Currently lives and works in Australia.
EDUCATION
2008 Masters of Visual Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts
2007 Post Graduate Diploma in Visual Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts
2002 BA Visual (Photomedia), Canberra School of Art, Australian National University Exchange Program, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Hidden Mothers and Ghost Flowers, Jan Murphy Gallery Brisbane
2022 Solo Sydney Contemporary, Nicholas Thompson Gallery
2021 The Heroine Paint, Melbourne with Kylie Banyard, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2021 The Heroine Paint with Kylie Banyard, Lismore Regional Gallery
2020 Summoned Paintings, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Murky Sex Paintings, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2018 Melbourne Art Fair, solo artist for Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2017 Part Time Painting, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2015 Still Life/Cactus/Skelephone, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2013 Flipping the Slip, Gallery 9, Sydney
2012 Melbourne Art Fair, New Paintings, solo artist for Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2011 Dark Gully/Sex Drawings, Utopians Slumps, Melbourne
2011 Mountains Full of Sky/Salty Lines, Edwina Corlette, Brisbane
2010 I Fuck Mountains, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2010 Dark Gully/Psychic War, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
2009 Circle of Eagles, Utopian Slumps,Melbourne
2007 Swans & Ammo, joint exhibition with Lizzie Hall, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 ‘Felt Cute Might Delete Later’ Arusha Gallery, London
2023 ‘BSA 10Years’ Tweed Regional Gallery, Australia
2022 ‘Fun Gal Gro Up Show’ SADE Gallery, Los Angeles
2021 ‘My Country’ Gruin Gallery, Los Angeles
2020 Five Year Anniversary Show, Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
2019 ‘Sexy Xmas‘, The Lodge Los Angeles USA
2019 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2019 'The New Gallery Show - Group Exhibition', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2019 'Come Closer', University of the Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Queensland
2019 'm_othering the perceptual ars poetica', Curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk and Antonia Sellbach, Counihan Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Let Her Rip, Byron School of Art
2016 Interstice, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Sydney Contemporary, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2014 Sublime Point: the landscape in painting, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
2014 Sense of Surround, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2013 The Feminine Optic, curated by Andrew Frost, Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW
2011 The New Arcadia, Lismore Regional Gallery, NSW
2010 Pin Up Your Doodle, Charity Fundraising, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2010 Worm Mountain, group show, C3 Gallery, Abbortsford Convent, Melbourne
2010 Territorial Pissings, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
2009 Chalk Reindeer, Christmas Show, Chalk Horse, Sydney
2009 The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2009 South, Monster Children Gallery, Sydney
2008 Brett Whiteley Traveling Art Scholarship Finalist Exhibition, Brett Whiteley Studio, AGNSW, Sydney - Recipient
2008 Thank God We Died Together, TCB, Melbourne
AWARDS & PRIZES
2022 Winner, Wollumbin Art Award, Tweed Regional Gallery - judged by Alison Kubler.
2022 Finalist, Evelyn Chapman Art Award, S.H Ervin Gallery
2019 Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2018 Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
Finalist, Mosman Art Prize
Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery
2017 Finalist, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award
2014 Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery
2010 Australia Council for the Arts - Artstart Grant Recipient
2009 Cite International des Arts, Paris, three-month residency
2008 Finalist, Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery
Recipient, Brett Whiteley Traveling Art Scholarship, Brett Whiteley Studio, Art Gallery of NSW
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Amber Creswell-Bell, Australian Abstract, p250-255, Thames & Hudson
2022 Brook Boland, Amber Wallis Lyrical Uncanny, Artist Profile, Issue 60, p 50-55
2019 Kevin Wilson, Preview Amber Wallis, Artist Profile, Issue 48, p142
Megan Willams and Arryn Snowball, Come Close, University of Sunshine Coast publication
2018 Vault, Melbourne Art Fair 2018, Issue 23, p 103
2018 The Art Almanac, Amber Wallis: Part Time Paintings, September 2017
2017 Melissa Loughnan, Australiana to Zeitgeist: An A-Z of Contemporary Australian Art, p123, 128-9, Thames & Hudson
2015 Lisa Marie Corso, Amber Wallis Still Life/Cactus/Skelephone, The Design Files, 9 June
2015 The Art Life, New Work Friday #192, 29 May
2015 Carrie McCarthy, Controlled Chaos, Cultural Flanerie, 25 June
2015 Daily Imprint, Artist Amber Wallis, 3 June11
2014 Australian Poetry Journal 4.1, 21 July, Cover Artwork
2013 Casey Hutton, Amber Wallis Studio Visit and Interview, The Meander Journal, November
2012 Andrew Frost, Flipping the Slip, The Art Life, 15 November
2012 Artist Profile, Amber Wallis, Melbourne Art Fair Special Edition, Issue 19, p 130 - 131
2012 Michel Lawrence, Amber Wallis Sexing Up the Slumps, Inside Art TV video profile
2011 Australian Art Collector, Psychoactive Painting, October – December, p 128 – 135 The Age, Visual Art, 11 November
2010 The Age, Visual Art, 6 October
2009 The Age, What’s On, 16 October
2009 Dan Rule, Amber Wallis: I Fuck Mountains, Broadsheet Melbourne, 29 September
2009 ABC Television, ABC Arts, Utopian Slumps Reborn, 29 April
2009 The Age, Utopian De-Slumped, 24 March, p 18
2009 The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, p 42
2009 Celebrating 10 Years of Young Talent, Look, Art Gallery Society of NSW, August/September, p54
2008 Lyrical Landscape Wins Trip to Paris, VCA News, Issue 2, p 11
2008 The Age, Our Space Ian McBride and Amber Wallis, A2 Section, 28 October, p 11
2008 The Sydney Morning Herald, A simple note takes artist to great place, 18 September, p10
2008 The Daily Telegraph, An Artful memory is a young painter’s passport to Paris, 18 September, p 18
2008 The Australian, Lyrical Landscape wins trip to Paris, 18 September, p 7
2008 The Canberra Times, Artist finds magic near Captains Flat, 18 September, p 3
2008 The Daily Telegraph, An artful memory pays off, 18 September, p 9
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
Arthur Roe Collection
Private collections in Australia and Internationally