AMBER WALLIS FINALIST IN 2024 LEN FOX PAINTING AWARD AT CASTLEMAINE ART MUSEUM

Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Len Fox Painting Award at Castlemaine Art Museum The Len Fox Painting Award is a biennial acquisitive painting prize and is awarded to a living Australian artist to commemorate the life and work of Emanuel Phillips Fox (1865–1915), the uncle of Len Fox, partner of benefactor Mona…

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AMBER WALLIS FINALIST IN 2024 WOLLUMBIN ART AWARD

Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Wollumbin Art Award at Tweed Regional Gallery . The Wollumbin Art Award (WAA) is the Tweed Regional Gallery’s biennial $30,000 award open to artists living in the Tweed, Ballina, Byron, Kyogle and Scenic Rim Shires, as well as Richmond Valley, Lismore and Gold Coast City. The award,…

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AMBER WALLIS FINALIST IN 2024 GEELONG CONTEMPORARY ART PRIZE

Amber Wallis is a finalist in the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, current 10 August to 3 November at Geelong Gallery The 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize continues a long tradition of acquisitive award exhibitions presented by Geelong Gallery, through which the permanent collection has grown substantially. The first painting prize—the Geelong Centenary Art Competition—was…

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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…

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ELEANOR LOUISE BUTT, JAMES DRINKWATER, TONEE MESSIAH AND AMBER WALLIS IN THAMES AND HUDSON PUBLICATION ‘AUSTRALIAN ABSTRACT’ BY AMBER CRESWELL BELL

A vivid survey of over forty contemporary Australian abstract painters by curator and bestselling author Amber Creswell Bell ‘There is an internal monologue, and a world of decisions and possibilities behind each work that the viewer does not see. Abstraction is akin to learning a new language.’ ANA YOUNG There is no single neat definition…

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AMBER WALLIS ARTIST CONVERSATION WITH ADAM LEE PUBLISHED ONLINE BY ‘ART + AUSTRALIA’

Sibling Show: A Conversation | Amber Wallis & Adam Lee In December 2022 artists Adam Lee and Amber Wallis met to discuss Amber Wallis’s solo exhibition Sibling Show at Nicholas Thompson Gallery. In the ensuing conversation the artists discuss their respective painting practices, the influence they have had on one another, life, children and the material processes…

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AMBER WALLIS AWARDED INAUGURAL WOLLUMBIN ART AWARD AT TWEED REGIONAL GALLERY

Amber Wallis has won the inaugural Wollumbin Art Award at Tweed Regional Gallery for her painting ‘Ivy with eyes’ exhibited by the gallery at Sydney Contemporary 2022. . Judge Alison Kubler, curator and editor of VAULT magazine commented “This is such a richly complex painting; it melds figuration, abstraction, and portraiture. I love the atmospheric…

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AMBER WALLIS IN ‘VAULT’ EDITOR ALISON KUBLER’S TOP TEN PICKS FOR SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

Taking place at Carriageworks from Wednesday 8 to Sunday 11 September, 2022, the 6th iteration of Sydney Contemporary promises an exciting four days of art, events and culinary experiences. Showcasing over 450 artists from more than 90 galleries, the fair is the perfect place to discover and collect modern and contemporary art. Ahead of the…

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AMBER WALLIS FEATURED IN ‘ARTIST PROFILE’, ISSUE 60

nicholasthompsongallery . Amber Wallis is featured in current issue 60 of Artist Profile. Article by Brooke Boland . Nicholas Thompson Gallery will present a solo exhibition of Amber Wallis’ paintings at Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks from 8 to 11 September . Contact gallery for exhibition preview 📨 . ‘Wallis is keenly interested in domestic space, particularly…

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