Anne Wallace

Anne Wallace (born 31 August 1970) is an Australian painter. Her works have appeared in major exhibitions and are held in major collections. Early life and education Wallace was born in Brisbane on 31 August 1970, growing up in suburban Kenmore. She attended St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School in Corinda, Brisbane, and then graduated from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 1991 or 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts). Wallace was taught at QUT by "the renowned landscape painter William Robinson" whom "she credits [...] with teaching her the traditional oil painting skills on which she continues to rely." She received the Oxlades Price and Hobday and Hingston Bursary from Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) in 1990. In 1993 Wallace was awarded the Gordan Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship of $50,000 to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the 1994 intake. She completed a Master of Arts (Distinction) at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1996, and won the School's Melville Nettleship Prize for Figure Drawing. Wallace completed a six-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris awarded by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney and the Australia Council for the Arts. Career From 1989 to 1993, Wallace was a part-time member of the Arts Faculty at the University of Queensland. She was awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize in 1999 by the Art Gallery of New South Wales.