Working “Outside of Time” from her Samsonvale Studio (Jagera and Turrbal country), Amber Simpson creates rich, tactile marquetry and oil paintings that transform timber into a painterly language. Balancing material tradition with contemporary expression, her practice explores introspection, material memory and our relationship with the world we inhabit.
Evocative of the silent and the unseen, her interior landscapes serve as meditations on stillness - places where thought lingers and meaning is not declared, but discovered. Through her work, Amber cultivates a space where the visible world and the felt experience coexist - carefully composed, quietly unsettled, and deeply human.
Born to a woodworker in the Southern Highlands of NSW, the maker in her was awakened early. The home she grew up in was bordered by bushland, and it was this early immersion that instilled a deep reverence and connection to the natural world. Reminiscent of her father’s workshop, the scent of timber transcends time - mixing with linseed oil and varnish within her own studio.
Graduating from the North Adelaide School of Art in 2000, she had a successful career as an interior stylist. Through this work she came to understand and express people’s emotional connection to the interiors they dwell in and to help them shape their personal, creative and safe spaces. In time, she came to see the spaces people inhabit as being inseparable from the interior life of the self.
Amber is a dedicated traveller whose collected adventures and conversations from around the world bring meaning to her life and art. She is represented by Revival Art & Design Gallery in Brisbane and her work can be found in private collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Singapore.
Born
Bowral NSW
Education
2000 - Advanced Diploma of Applied and Visual Art, North Adelaide School of Art, SA
Selected Skills
Timber marquetry - self taught, 2018 - present.
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Waterbodies, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane.
2023 Interior Still, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane.
2022 La Petite Solo in Lilac, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane.
2021 Dwell, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane.
2020 The Veneer Suite, Tiny Tree Gallery, Brisbane.
2020 In-between Days, Hell’s Kitchen Gallery, Brisbane.
2018 Interface, Salisbury Studios, Brisbane.
2018 Retrospective, Salisbury Studios, Brisbane.
2004 Chapters, Cooroy Butter Factory Gallery, Sunshine Coast.
2003 Identity, Image and a Parable of the First, Fusions Gallery, Sunshine Coast.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award Exhibition.
2026 Brisbane Affordable Art Fair.
2025 Eclectic Maximalism, Revival Art and Design.
2025 Affordable Art Fair Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
2024 Affordable Art Fair Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.
2023 Fifty 50, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane.
2023 Grammar Art Show, Brisbane.
2022 Toowoomba Grammar Art Show.
2022 Spring Mini Series, Revival Art and Design Gallery, Brisbane.
2021 Hometown, Albion Art Hub, Brisbane.
2021 Toowoomba Grammar Art Show.
2020 Satellite: FOUND, Side Gallery, Brisbane.
2020 Ildewild, Side Gallery, Brisbane.
2019 Monster Creative Show, Vacant Assembly, Brisbane.
2019 Petite Pieces, Aspire Gallery, Brisbane.
2018 Art and Design Show, Onespace Gallery, Brisbane.
2002 Same Time, Same Place, Noosa Regional Gallery, Sunshine Coast.
Awards
2026 Finalist, Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award, Brisbane.
2019 Finalist, Petite Pieces, Aspire Gallery, Brisbane.
2001 CSIT Acquisition Award, Sunshine Coast.
Collections
Cooloola Sunshine Institute of TAFE Art Collection.
Private collections in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Singapore.