• Home
  • Art
  • MERCH
  • Instagram
  • About
  • Buy
  • Blog
  • Contact
Menu

Leith O'Malley

Australian Artist & Illustrator Leith O'Malley
  • Home
  • Art
  • MERCH
  • Instagram
  • About
  • Buy
  • Blog
  • Contact

OTHER NEWS

O'Malley in Print

In late 2017 I was selected to take part in a group show representing contemporary digital artists from around the world titled 'The Next Level' and exhibiting in gallery spaces in Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney.

nextlevel.jpg


A book was released by digital tablet makers 'Wacom' to commemorate the show.
My work 'Smart Bombs, Dumb People' was a reaction to the unrest at the time between America, North Korea and Russia.


Apart from magazines and stories/interviews online, my work previously appeared in the 2016 book "Looking Down Under - Contemporary Artists from Australia". 


It's humbling to have my painting "Girl with Lip Ring" included alongside the works of many Oz artists I admire including Reg Mombassa, Euan Macleod, Anna Caione, Sam Leach, Deidre But-Husaim, Nona Burden, Jason Benjamin, Daryl Austin and Stormie Mills to name a few.

Apart from getting my age wrong in the CV section, I'm very happy to have been selected in this Luciano Benetton Collection, which I suspect will be exhibited in Australia at some stage.


Rhythms Magazine

Here's the illustration I produced for the latest issue of Rhythms magazine. There's another full page image of it within the magazine that accompanies the article and interview with Billy Bragg.

I wanted it to have that "old time photo" feel to go with their album theme so it includes scratches and blotches similar to an old photo. 
It seems to fit the theme of railway-styled classic songs recorded in the course of their 65 hour journey across the US on the Texas Eagle railroad service.
I have illustrated a version of the original Texas Eagle train which ran the tracks that Billy and Joe traveled on in the making of the new album.

There's a few other inside references too.
I've decided to feature Joe playing a guitar that has the same graffiti that Woody Guthrie wrote on his own guitar back in 1941 ("This Machine Kills Fascists").

The Common Grackle bird is also in the pic. It is used in some of the adverting of the album and their travels online.

There's a bunch of stickers on the case that relate to Billy and the album.
For a little extra humour I put a Thomas the Tank Engine sticker on Billys suit case and gave him a pair of Doc Martins (he used to wear them back in his more punk days 


O'Malley in Print:

There are currently a small number of original artworks available for purchasing.

Additionally, I’ve recently commissioned several limited edition reproductions to print format. A variety including various paintings, drawings and mixed media works of art.

Each print edition is limited to 10 prints only and each is numbered and signed by the artist. They are also accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.

The prints are reproduced on approx. A3 sized (297mm x 420mm or 11.69” x 16.54”) 300 gsm paper(card thickness) using lightfast inks.

The prints include a border, the lower of which will vary in thickness depending on the shape and size of the original work this is not a problem as the mount (once framed) will cover any differences.

For enquiries on availability, price and shipping contact the artist directly leithomalley@gmail.com


Featured posts:

Blog
Sometimes I draw and paint, and sometimes I just draw ..
Sometimes I draw and paint, and sometimes I just draw ..
about 2 years ago

People who know me, know that as much as I like revisiting music and art of the past, I really love popular culture. I’ve simply never subscribed to the view that the best art (and I include music here) all happened in the past. That makes no sense to me.

“The Trojan Horse [the ore price cometh]”
about 2 years ago

Somewhere between the ham and cheese and the tuna salad I started thinking about that old Trojan Horse story and the analogies that could be made with the industry and town surrounding me. Food for thought right?

Bird at Window.. keeping it (sur)real.
Bird at Window.. keeping it (sur)real.
about 2 years ago

It has taken me some years to realise, but the ideas or inspiration for painting and drawing really don’t fall from the sky. I’m not foolishly waiting for inspiration as I have mistakingly alluded to in the past.

Create, Share, Connect 2
Create, Share, Connect 2
about 2 years ago

I really enjoyed partaking in a creative keynote presentation in the seaside city of Port Lincoln in South Australia on the weekend..

Mario : oil on floppy disks

November 21, 2016

As the title suggests, yes a work I completed recently which I painted on a collage of old floppy disks, mounted on a plywood backing board.

A floppy disk, also called a diskette, is a disk storage medium composed of a disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles. Floppy disks are read and written by a floppy disk drive. Floppy disks were an ubiquitous form of data storage and exchange from the mid-1970s well into the 2000s.

Mario of course is the main character and protagonist of the long-running and highly successful Mario series. He was created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and also serves as the main mascot of Nintendo. The Mario I wanted to paint was a take on the guy years later, as an actual person.. an older man. The post animated years so to speak.
[Just click on the images to getter a closer look]

 

The whole idea behind the painting came from a few months leading up to my son Jason’s birthday and the impulse to create something a little different from the norm. I had always wanted to paint on a whole bunch of old disks I had previously stored away over the years and this became my chance.

 

It also became a sort of old school approach in a way, with the combination of an almost vintage form of digital media with a portrait of a popular digital character from days gone by or the beginnings of popular electronic gaming.

 

Like most oil paintings, there are quite a few stages to go through laying paint on. The pic above shows three steps in the early stages from charcoal drawing on a rough undercoat through to subtle changes as I head towards a tonal underpainting.

 

The completed painting before framing. One often wonders when to stop adding more paint.

← “The Trojan Horse [the ore price cometh]”Bird at Window.. keeping it (sur)real. →
Back to Top