Rebecca Wallis (b. UK) is a painter based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She holds a Master of Visual Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London (1995), a formative period that continues to inform the conceptual and material depth of her practice.

Working through abstraction, Wallis uses surface, light, and material to explore thresholds of perception, subjectivity, and emotion. Her paintings often disrupt conventional structures—collapsing surface, dissolving pigment, and troubling edges—to mirror the fragility and fluidity of the self. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and feminist philosophy, her work considers the uncertain terrain between self and Other, presence and absence, image and trace.

Wallis is the recipient of the Walker and Hall Art Award and the 2025 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award, and her work is included in the most recent edition of 250 Years of New Zealand Painting.

She is represented by James Makin Gallery (Melbourne) and is a member of the artist collective Mothermother (Auckland). In September 2025, she will present a major solo exhibition with Scott Lawrie Gallery in Edinburgh, marking a significant expansion of her international practice.

Wallis exhibits for the first time with Melanie Roger Gallery in Echo in May / June 2025.