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Rebecca Wallis

London & Auckland

Artist Statement

'Standing in the whitewash I can't decide whether to let the current suck me under or dig my heals in. This constant battle is so tiring. All I want is to float peacefully amid leaves and petals, wrapped in the damp comfort of melancholy and solitude'. Aimee M Ralfini 10.11.2018 (Facebook entry)
These works are intended to question our fixation with flatness and surface and redirect meaning to experiences of Otherness. My process is wholistic where I use the painting object as a vessel to activate the passive spaces behind.

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Rebecca Wallis's Portfolio

Rebecca Wallis, Pure Plenum, acrylic and acrylic mediums on and behind silk over x2 pine stretcher bars + 3, 4.5m Cambuckle Tie Downs, variable dimensions(approx 200x150x8cm)
Rebecca Wallis, Blackout, gesso over acrylic and acrylic mediums on and behind silk over x2 pine stretcher bars + steel plate, approx 12x120x9cm
Rebecca Wallis, Forgetting myself, acrylic and acrylic mediums on silk over acrylic on pine stretcher bars, 40x40x3.5cm
Rebecca Wallis, Becoming 5, acrylic on silk over acrylic on pine stretcher bars, 40x40x3.5cm
Rebecca Wallis, All I want, 2018, acrylic and acrylic mediums behind silk over pine stretcher bars, 100x100x3.5cm
Rebecca Wallis, All I want(back), 2018, acrylic and acrylic mediums behind silk over pine stretcher bars, 100x100x3.5cm
Rebecca Wallis, Rush, 2018, acrylic and acrylic mediums behind silk over pine stretcher bars, 120x120x3.5cm
Rebecca Wallis, Frontier(rising out), 2018, acrylic and acrylic mediums behind silk over pine stretcher bars, 110x110x3.5cm
Rebecca Wallis, Skintighht, 2018, acrylic and acrylic mediums behind silk over pine stretcher bars, 80x80x3.5 cm
Rebecca Wallis, Deep sleep, 2018, acrylic and acrylic mediums behind silk over pine stretcher bars, 120x120x3.5cm

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Artist Biography

Rebecca Wallis was born in the UK, she has lived and practised between London and Auckland since finishing her first degree in Fine Arts in 1988. Her art practice was cemented in 1995 with a Masters Degree in Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College, London. Wallis provokes, using the abject, the allusive experiences of the Real. She makes associations between the corporeal and the painterly, to reveal the 'beyond, behind and beneath'. Her recent methods characteristically involve simple and unconventional gestures, where she refers to herself as a conduit for the interaction between materials. In her work Wallis often exhibits a slipping away and a resisting of containment, referring to the allusive experience of this understanding, outside that of language, informed by the theories of Kristeva.

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