Tony O'Malley (1913-2003) was a self-taught Irish painter. He was born in Callan, County Kilkenny and, while he drew and painted for private pleasure from childhood, he worked as a bank officìal until a long battle with TB in the 1940s knocked him off the normal course of his life. He began painting in earnest while convalescing and, though he did at first return to bank work, he continued to paint and in 1951 he began exhibiting his work. 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... Callan is one of the largest towns in County Kilkenny in the Republic of Ireland. ... County Kilkenny (Contae Chill Chainnigh in Irish) is located in the south east of Ireland in the province of Leinster. ... TB or tb can stand for: Terbium (Tb, chemical symbol for the chemical element) Tuberculosis Terabyte (TB) Trombone Thunderbird news and email client Hyundai TB Tony Blair Terry Bradshaw TrackBack Thoroughbred Taco Bell Tomboy, Hong Kong slang Teen Baby (A common term relating to infantilism) Turbo Basic, computer language Toledo... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

In 1955 he holidayed in St. Ives in Cornwall, then an important center of abstract art and home to Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron and Bryan Wynter who Tony O'Malley met and worked with on his trip. He returned again in 1957 and in 1958 retired from the bank to paint full time. Prompted by mixture of frustration at the indifference shown in Ireland to his work, an attraction to the sense of freedom he felt among the artists in Cornwall and an engagement with the attempt to represent natural forms current in their abstraction, he settled in St Ives in 1960. While he was strongly influenced by the St Ives artistic community, his relationship was one of engagement rather than direct participation. His painting never completely assimilate the rigor and formality of the British abstract painters; it retained a muscular extravagance which is central to his artistic identity. Speaking to John O'Regan in an interview reproduced in Works 14: Tony O'Malley he explains: 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... St Ives harbour and the local rescue lifeboat. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow) is a county in South West England. ... Peter Lanyon (1918-1964) was a painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. ... Patrick Heron (1920 - 1999), was a leading St Ives artist. ... Bryan Wynter (1915-1975) was one of the St. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...

"Not so much abstract as essence. I could not paint for the sake of the pigment of whatever, but I like abstract form in the painting which instills it with meaning and power. Abstraction does enable you to get under the surface, to get beyond appearance, and to express the mind. But abstraction for its own sake does not interest me."

Tony O'Malley's adopted a sombre palette in the second half of the 1960s and many of his paintings are dedicated to the memory of his friend and mentor Peter Lanyan who was killed when the glider he was piloting crashed in 1964. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

In 1973 Tony O'Malley married and through the mid 70s he and his wife spent time in the Bahamas and in O'Malley's native Callan. During this period, his paintings became less sombre and the Bahamas paintings are extremely colourful and vibrant. In 1990 he and his wife moved back to Ireland and in 1993 he was elected a Saoi of Aosdána. When he died in 2003 he was regarded as one of Ireland's leading painters. The Irish Museum of Modern Art plans a major retrospective of his work in 2005. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... This article is about the year. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Saoi, (pronounced See) (pl. ... Disambiguation: you may also be looking for Aois-dàna or Aes Dana Aosdána (from aos dána, Irish people of the arts) is an association of people in Ireland who have achieved distinction in the arts. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Irish Museum of Modern Art, also known as the IMMA, opened in May 1991 and is Irelands leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External Links

• Aosdána short biography
• CIRCA 103
• The Crawford Art Gallery Cork
• Tony O'Malley exhibition at Tate St Ives, UK, Summer 2006.

Reference

• David Whittaker (2005) "Tony O'Malley: an Irish Artist in Cornwall" Oxfordshire: Wavestone Press ISBN 0954519434
• Gemma Tipton (2003) Tony O'Malley 1913-2003.
• Dorothy Walker (2003), O'Malley, Tony in Brian Lalor (Ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: Gill and Macmillian. ISBN 0-7171-3000-2
• John O'Regan (1994), Works 14: Tony O'Malley. Dublin: Gandon Editions. ISBN 094661404.