Erin O'Malley

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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

www.erinomalleyart.co.nz