AMBER WALLIS FINALIST IN 2024 SIR JOHN SULMAN PRIZE AT THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Sir John Sulman Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

“My mother spent a large portion of her life living and working in Central Australia. I see her sometimes, walking the desert as a ghost in my dreams, a transparent yet protective force. This work abstractly portrays my matrilineal line: women and ghostly apparitions that exist within landscapes, architectural forms and interior spaces of my past. I’m interested in notions of care, in women’s experiences of steadfastness, protection and guardianship; and simultaneously our invisibility. My broader practice often references my experience as a daughter of the counterculture, with works like this that hover between the past and present.” Amber Wallis, 2024

The Sulman Prize is awarded for the best subject painting, genre painting or mural project by an Australian artist. Established within the terms of Sir John Sulman’s bequest, the prize was first awarded in 1936. Each year the trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW invite a guest artist to judge this open competition. Exhibition current 8 June to 8 September.

Amber Wallis
𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙩
2024
oil on linen
135 x 120 cm