Daphne Wallace

Region: North Western NSW

Community/ residence: Armidale / Lightning Ridge

Design & Art Australia Online:

"Wallace is a Gamilaroi/Ullaroi-Yuwaaliaay artist whose intensely coloured and textured abstract and pictorial paintings are interpretations of the Yuwaaliaay stories passed down to her by her grandmother. They are evocative of her spiritual and emotional attachment to her home in Lightening Ridge.

Gamilaroi/Ullaroi-Yuwaaliaay artist, curator and cultural advisor, Daphne Wallace grew up at Nobby Opal Fields in Lightning Ridge, north-west NSW. Wallace has worked in curatorial positions in the National Gallery of Australia and at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, the Museum of Sydney, the New England Regional Art Museum and the Wilson Street Gallery in Newtown, Sydney.

Wallace has been a finalist in the 2005 and 2006 Country Energy Art Awards and a finalist in the 2005 inaugural Parliament of NSW Indigenous Art Prize with her oil on canvas work, Minmin on the Plains 2004. Wallace’s work is in the permanent collections of the New England Regional Art Museum, Art Bank as well as private collections in New Zealand, Japan, Germany, England, Holland and Australia. In 1982 she moved to Armidale, then Canberra (1990-93) and then Sydney (1993-96). In 1997 she returned to Armidale and was still living there at the time of writing."

Allas, Tess

Johnson, Vivien

Note: based on interview with the artist March 4 2008