Erin O'Malley
Erin O’Malley is a painter who, using colour, texture and shape seeks to capture some of the concealed beauty of what it means to be human.
Her emotional landscapes explore shared hopes & fears, a sense of place & self, captured moments in time, held in brush stroke on the canvas. Her work looks at a reality beyond the observable physical world and attempts to hold onto and record the unseen internal spaces we navigate daily.
Erin believes wholly in the action of painting , the process & journey and direction of the marks she makes. It all begins from an idea, a feeling, a word – it is then followed through with paint to its desired end.
Erin has a BA & Teaching Diploma in English and EducaIon UoA (Auckland New Zealand) 1991 and a Diploma in PainIng ISCD (Sydney Australia) 1999.
She is represented by Railway Street Gallery + Studios in Auckland & Atelier Studio Gallery in Nelson
Selected Group Exhibitions
1998- Finalist Waverly Art Council Prize Group Exhibition Sydney Australia
1999- Finalist Mosman Art Prize Group Exhibition Mosman Art Gallery Sydney Australia
2018- ‘Painterly’ Atelier Studio Gallery Nelson New Zealand
2020- ‘Stations of the Cross’ (virtual group show) Atelier Studio Gallery Nelson
2021- ‘O’Malley + Lees’ Atelier Studio Gallery Nelson
2023 - ‘Studio to Wall’ Railway Street Gallery + Studio Auckland
2024 – ‘Dog Days’ Railway Street Gallery + Studios Auckland
2024 - 'Spacapan + O'Malley' Atelier Studio Gallery Nelson
Selected Solos Shows
2000 - 'India Land of Many' Spectrum Gallery The Rocks Sydney
2009 - 'Spots Stipe & Song' Kingsland Auckland
2011 - 'Falling into Land' Newmarket Auckland
2015 - 'Streetlights & Seascapes' Newmarket Auckland
2015 - 'Tied up in Knots' Newmarket Auckland
2017 - 'Into the Wild' Newmarket Auckland
2017 - 'Creation Dreaming' Newmarket Auckland
2018 - 'Falling Action' Newmarket Auckland
2019 - ‘A Still Life’ Newmarket Auckland
2021 - ‘Meet me in the Crazy’ Newmarket Auckland
2022 - ‘Lets Dance’ Newmarket Auckland
2023 - ‘Summer Songs’ Railway Street Gallery + Studios Auckland