Sheila Wallis

Winner of The Threadneedle Prize, and 2019 winner of the London and the South East Regional Prize at ING Discerning Eye Exhibition.
Sheila Wallis brings the skills of a traditional figurative painter to bear on a wide spectrum of contemporary and historical subject matter.

Cinematic film stills, photojournalism, boxing bouts, post mortem daguerreotypes and Victorian asylum photographs have all inspired a meticulous critique of lens-based imagery, inviting reconsideration of the public and the private, fiction and fact, the dispassionate lens and the hand of the painter.

Drawing on her experience of growing up catholic in Derry City in the north of Ireland during the height of the Troubles, Wallis’ work insinuates political awareness and redemptive creative transformation in equal measure.

Sheila Wallis has also won the Winsor and Newton Painting Prize, the Watts Painting Prize and In 2014 was awarded the City and Guilds of London MA Fine Art Principal’s Prize. Sheila lives with her husband in London, and works from her South London studio

2014 Masters Degree in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School; Distinction.

2009 Bachelor of Arts BA (Hons) Degree, in Fine Art from the University for The Creative Arts

• 2019 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition. Mall Galleries. London

• 2019 ‘Fluid’ Espacio Gallery. London

•. 2019 Gemini Prize Exhibition, Menier Gallery. London

•. 2018 Royal Academy of Arts 250th Summer Exhibition

•. 2016. Speak in Daylight, St John’s Church. London•
•. 2015 Curator, What I tell You in The Dark, The Crypt, St John’s Church, Waterloo.
• 2015 Speak in The Daylight, The Crypt, St John’s Church, Waterloo, Curator
• 2014 Clyde and Co Annual Exhibition Guildford
• 2014 Carousel Group Show, Slate Projects, South Kiosk, London
• 2014 MA Show Fine Art City and Gilds of London Art School
• 2013 Young Gods Group Show, The Griffin Gallery, London
• 2013 MA Fine Art Interim Show, City and Guilds of London Art School
• 2012 Threadneedle Space Inaugural Show, Mall Galleries, London
• 2011 Camden Arts Festival Group Shop Denmark Place Open Studio
• 2011 New Contemporaries, The Arts Centre Basingstoke (solo Show)
• 2010 Thinking Through Doing, University of Surrey (Solo Show)
• 2010 Yvonne Arnaud Exhibition, Group Show Guildford.
• 2010 BBC Children in Need, The Art Space, Belfast Northern Ireland
• 2009 The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries London (1st prize)
• 2009 ...