BIOGRAPHY

Tony O’Malley (1913–2003) was born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. He painted part-time while working with the Munster and Leinster Bank until the late 1950s. O’Malley moved to St Ives in Cornwall in 1960. His extensive body of work is concerned with the landscape, and the spirit of personal and folk history, which it embodies. He returned to Kilkenny in 1990. Exhibitions of O’Malley’s work were held at IMMA in 1992 and 2001, and a major retrospective exhibition took place in 2005. O’Malley was made a Saoi of Aosdána in 1993.

His work is held in the public collections of the Contemporary Irish Arts Society, Cornwall Education Committee, Allied Irish Banks, Arts Council of Ireland, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Insurance Corporation of Ireland, Guinness Peat Aviation, Boyle Civic Collection, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Hugh Lane Municipal Art Gallery of Modern Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Office of Public Works, The National Self-Portrait Collection, Wexford County Council, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny and the National Gallery of Ireland.