The O'Malley Talk Series
- with Dr Michael Waldron

Tony O’Malley: Work from the Sixties revisited 

In 1992, Butler Gallery mounted a touring exhibition of works made by Tony O’Malley during the 1960s. Work from the Sixties explored O’Malley’s output at St Ives, Cornwall – where the artist had settled in 1960 – in the years before he met Jane Harris. Astounding critics with its vital and searching qualities, the exhibition travelled to multiple venues across Ireland, including Crawford Art Gallery and Irish Museum of Modern Art. Join Dr Michael Waldron (Curator of Collections & Special Projects, Crawford Art Gallery) in revisiting Work from the Sixties and in considering O’Malley’s experimentation with materials and the sequence of paintings in memory of his friend, the artist Peter Lanyon.

Dr Michael Waldron is a curator, art historian, and writer with research interests in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish visual art. He is Curator of Collections & Special Projects at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork where his exhibitions have included Recasting Canova, Laura Fitzgerald: I have made a place, and Harry Clarke: Bad Romance. Having previously taught art history and literature at University College Cork, he has published articles in Irish Arts Review, Paper Visual Art, and Irish University Review, as well as chapters in The Routledge Companion to Irish Art and Elizabeth Bowen in Context. He is also Deputy Chair of Sample-Studios.