Gabby Malpas

I am graduate of the Otago School of Fine Arts, Dunedin NZ, working in watercolour on paper and canvas. I weave stories into my work based on my experiences as trans-racial, Asian adoptee with engaging and lavish imagery. Many of my images are of things I have found in Sydney: items familiar to most viewers but with unexpected elements. A joyful and chaotic assemblage of blooms and fruit displayed with a collection of ceramics from anywhere and everywhere but with a narrative that draws the viewer in for a second look.

Awards
Finalist: Mosman Art Prize 2016
Finalist: Moreton Bay Art Prize 2016
Finalist: Fleurieu Food & Wine Art prize 2016
Selected to hang: Linden Postcard Show 2015
Finalist: North Sydney Art Prize 2015
Selected to exhibit: James Kiwi Watercolour Prize, 2012, 2014, 2016
Highly commended: Westmead Hospital Art Prize 2012
Finalist: Nora Heysen Centenary Art Prize – Still life 2011
Highly commended, Watercolour: Blacktown City Art Prize: 2011 & 2012
Selected to exhibit: National Trust Harper’s Mansion Art Prize – Still life 2011
Selected to exhibit: Hornsby Art Prize 2011

Selected Solo Exhibitions
Happy: The Crawford Gallery, Sydney, March 2016
Chasing the Dragon: Artshine Gallery, Chippendale, Nov-Dec 2016
The Other Art Fair: Waterloo, Sydney, September 2016
In my mothers’ gardens and other stories: St Vincents Hospital, Dec 2015 – Jan 2016
Leaping rabbit, hidden butterfly: Platform72 Gallery, Chippendale, August 2015
I will not love you long time and other stories: Breathing Colours Gallery, Balmain, May 2015
Where are you from?: Platform72, Sydney, October 2014
Bringing the Sydney Garden Inside: St Vincents Hospital, May 2013
Sydney Art Expo 2012/2013: Fox Studios, Sydney, October 2012/2013
Pictures to make you smile: St Vincent’s Hospital, Paddington, Sydney, March 2011
Art Sydney 2010, Fox Studios, Sydney, November 2010
Sydney Pictures: Art at Home Gallery, Balmain, Sydney, February 2010
Art Sydney 2009, Fox Studios, Sydney, October 2009
Commissioned work for in store gallery: Liberty Store Art gallery, Regent St, London, Oct-Dec 1997
One woman show: Christchurch Society of Art Gallery, New Zealand, February 1992

Selected Group Shows
I’ll Bring cake: Gordon public Library, Sydney, July-Sept 2011
Annual Plunket art exhibition: Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru New Zealand, June 2010/June 2012
Underwater escapade: Amalgam Art, Barnes London, March 1996
Seventeenth annual art exhibition: Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru, New Zealand, June 1994
Brush and Spitsticker: West Oxfordshire arts association, The Gallery, Bampton, Oxfordshire, February 1993
Art and craft New Zealand: Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran, Wales, August 1992
Anna Mei Chadwick Galleries Summer show: Parsons Green, London, August 1990/1991
Southland Potter’s annual exhibition: Winton, New Zealand, May 1991
Timaru City Art Gallery annual exhibition: Timaru, New Zealand, May 1990

Licensed Artist Clients
Mirvac Broadway
Tourism New Zealand
H.A.G.: Maxwell & Williams, Australia
Blue Island Press, Australia
Chatswood Chase Sydney
One Kings Lane, USA
Armuseli, Spain
Art in Motion, Canada