Allis’ portraits have been selected for the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, and the Delphian Gallery Open Call (UK); her landscapes, the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and the Waverley Woollahra 9” x 5" Landscape Art Prize, NSW.

Allis’ poetry has been selected for Montreal International Poetry Prize, two poems for the National Poetry Competition (UK) and the Bridport Prize (UK).

Her writing has been commissioned by Westerly magazine and the Red Room Poetry. Her work is published in places such as The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Australian Poetry Journal, Meanjin and Overland.

With her old band Allis’s music featured on BBC Radio 3’s Freeness programme, and her most recent musical composition is set to be part of the Pitt River Museum collection in Oxford.

Allis’ work is a documentation of her life, with nearly all of her paintings and poetry drawing from the world around her. She was a multi-intrumentalist before her brain haemorrhage, and though her stroke stole her violin/guitar/flute finger’s ability, she continues to create music in any way she can.

Allis currently resides between Wagga Wagga and Castlemaine.

ABOUT

Allis Hamilton is a creature of nature who creates poetry, visual art, and music. Allis paints landscapes, portraits, and still lifes. Her pictures have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 2003. Her poems have been published internationally. She plays and composes music of various kinds.

She was born in a blink of a town in rural NSW. In her early 30’s she survived        a massive paralysing brain haemorhhage.