VERONICA O'LEARY
ABOUT VERONICA O'LEARY
Veronica is a visual artist and arts educator who works from her studio in Tathra on the South Coast of NSW. She has been artist in residence in many places throughout Australia recording and painting the narratives of place. She also worked as the court artist for the ABC for the duration of the Lindy Chamberlain trial. Her collection of 182 drawings from the trial were purchased by the National Museum of Australia and are housed in Canberra at the National Museum.
In 2020 her large painting “our land is burning” won the Hangers Choice and the People’s Choice awards in the prestigious Glover Prize for landscape painting.
Her current work is focused on still life painting and the pleasures of the shared table and the narratives of everyday tablescapes. Her still life painting is about elevating the ordinary into something beautiful.
She has exhibited widely throughout Australia and has been in many major prizes for her still life paintings- the National Emerging Art Prize 2022/23, Dutch Still life Painting at West End Artspace Melbourne and at the Affordable Art Fair Melbourne 2023.
Currently she is exhibiting at Project Gallery 90 Paddington Sydney and at The Hive Gallery Ocean Grove Victoria.
RECENT CATALOGUES:
CV
MA Visual Arts, BA Fine Arts, BA Hons, Dip Ed
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Abundance and Rarity Project Gallery 90 Paddington Sydney
2023 Nurture the Soul The Hive Gallery Ocean Grove Victoria
2022 Aristology The West End Art Space Melbourne
2021 Paintings and Drawings of Australian Flora. Ivy Hill Gallery
2020 Impressions of King Island. King Island Cultural Centre.
2019 Bloom. Ivy Hill Gallery. Wapengo
2019 Immersed. Paintings of sea sky and fire. Tacit Galleries. Melb
2018 Wild, Remote and Intimate. Paintings. Ivy Hill Gallery.
2017 Swept Away. Paintings from King Island. Tacit Galleries. Melbourne
2016 Skyscapes. Ivy Hill Gallery. Wapengo
2014 Weeds to Wildflowers, Ivy Hill Gallery
2012 Exhibition of 182 Chamberlain Court Drawings commissioned by the ABC and acquired by the National Museum of Australia. Canberra
Awards
2024 Finalist The Next Big Thing Toowoomba Art Gallery
2024 Inside this Box The Corner Store Gallery Orange
2022/23 Finalist Tacit Still Life Art Prize. Melbourne
2023/2022 Finalist National Capital Art Prize. Canberra
2021 Finalist Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award. Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane
2021 Finalist Works on paper Award. Stories. Blackstone Gallery. Newcastle
2020 Finalist. Glover Prize. People’s Choice Award and Hangers’ Choice Award.
2020 Highly Commended. Works on paper. Tastes of Art Rutherglen Art Prize.
2011/2010 Finalist The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize Exhibition, SA Museum, Adelaide
2014 Finalist Noosa Art Awards, Noosa Regional Gallery
2013 Finalist Mosman Art Award Exhibition, Mosman Art Gallery
Group Exhibitions
2024 Small works Project Gallery 90 Paddington Sydney
2023 Spring Garden and Falling Flowers Grainger Gallery Canberra
2023 Coast Sutton Village Gallery Sutton
2023 Oysters and Champagne Project Gallery 90 Paddington Sydney
2023 AMB Selects National Emerging Art Prize
2022. Birds and Blooms. Village Gallery Sutton. NSW
2022 National Capital Art Prize Finalist Exhibition.. ACT.
2022 The Dutch Project. West End Art Space. Melbourne
2022 Still life paintings. The Corner Store Gallery. Orange
2020 Place and Identity. Group exhibition Spiral Gallery Bega
2020 Bloom. Ivy Hill Gallery. Wapengo
2017 Fresh Salt. Paintings from the Four Winds Land Art Project. ANU Gallery. ACT.
2012 Salon De Refuses, Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize,
2011 Images of Gulaga, Ivy Hill Gallery, Wapengo
2010 Eight Artists Paint Gulaga, Bega Valley Shire Regional Art Gallery
Publications
Immersed. Veronica O’Leary
Tacit Galleries. 2-27 October. 2019.
“As If Dropped From Another Planet”
Issue 14, Art and Design, The Planthunter. 12.12.2014.
Lindy Chamberlain, Witch or Madonna? Northern Territory Perspective. NT University. Vol 19. No 1. 1996.
A Celebration Of Colour. Australian Artist.No 186. Dec.1999
Residencies
2020 King Island Cultural Centre. Tasmania.
Mulgara Gallery, Sails in the desert, Uluru. N.T.
Canberra Boys Grammar. Canberra.
Seven Spirit Bay, Cobourg Peninsula. N.T.
Milton Park Estate. Bowral.
Club Med Lindeman Island.
ABC Court Artist The Chamberlain Trial. NT Supreme Court. Darwin.
In 2012 The National Museum of Australia purchased the 182 drawings from the Chamberlain trial and 10 drawings from the subsequent Colonial inquest