Above - 2005 Tony O'Malley Award winner Chloé Morrison

Above - 2004 Tony O'Malley Award winner Tom Molloy

Above - 2003 Tony O'Malley Award winner Clare Cashman

Above - 2002 Tony O'Malley Award winner Alan Keane

TONY O MALLEY TRAVEL AWARD
SPONSORED BY WATERFORD CRYSTAL

The Butler Gallery are seeking innovative proposals for the Tony O'Malley Travel Award for Painters 2006.

Closing date October 27th, 2006.

The prize fund of €2,600 will go to the successful applicant resident in Ireland, North or South of a specific travel proposal. The proposal, alongside the artists work is an important consideration in assessing the awards. The Butler Gallery will administer the award.

Travel has been a prominent factor in much of Tony O'Malley's work. Although born and living in County Kilkenny, he has travelled and worked extensively abroad, notably in Cornwall, the Bahamas and Lanzarote. His varied career has provided inspiration for this award.

The money must be spent on the proposed trip. The destination(s) should address your needs as an artist to develop your work. Past winners are Chloe Morrisson, Tom Molloy, Clare Cashman, Alan Keane, Colin Martin, Eoin Llewellyn, Eamon O Kane, and Tom Climent.

Procedure:
1. Open only to painters.
2. Curriculum Vitae.
3. Outline of the project for which the grant aid is sought. Outline must not exceed one page.
4. Documentation: A maximum of ten images of work carried out in the last two years. All work should include titles, dates, dimensions, materials and artist's name.
Acceptable formats: • 35 mm slides • CDs, DVDs and PowerPoint Presentations.
5. Send SAE, for return of slides, we do not accept responsibility for loss or damage of slides.
6. Applicants must be of Irish birth, or be in a position to satisfy the assessors that they comply with the residency requirements as outlined in the 1994 Finance Act.
7. Award will be announced at a date to be confirmed. Winner must travel within one year of receiving the award.
8. Referees - Names and addresses should be supplied, of two authorities in the field, who know the applicant and their work.

Conditions
• It is the responsibility of the applicant to advise the Butler Gallery if no acknowledgement has been received within ten days of the closing date.
• Canvassing individual members of the Butler Gallery will not Influence the decision of the assessors.
• The Butler Gallery’s decision is final.
• Awards may be withheld or divided among applicants at the Butler Gallery's discretion.
• The award will be announced on a date to be confirmed at a reception in the Butler Gallery.
• The successful applicant will write a report on the utilisation of the award within three months of their return.
• Award fund will be paid to the successful applicant upon a travel arrangement and a copy supplied to the Butler Gallery.
• Slides and material sent to the Gallery will become the property of the Butler Gallery unless a SAE is included for return of items.
• While every effort will be made to ensure the safe keeping of the materials, the Butler Gallery cannot be held responsible for loss or damage to slides or applications.
• Waterford Crystal may wish to feature the Award Winning artist’s work in corporate material.

CLOSING DATE FRIDAY OCTOBER 27TH
Send to:
Tony O Malley Award
Butler Gallery, The Castle
Kilkenny, Ireland
For information contact:
t + 353 56 7761106 f +353 56 7770031
e: info@butlergallery.com

2005 Winner
Chloé Morrison, a 26-year-old artist from Coleraine, Northern Ireland, was announced, last night (Friday, 25th, November, 2005), as the winner of the 2005 Tony O’Malley Travel Award for Irish painters. The announcement was made at a reception in Kilkenny Castle.

Morrison lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She graduated from The Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam in 2004, with a Master of Fine Arts degree and received her BA in 2002 from The Slade School of Art, London. She has exhibited in group exhibitions in The Netherlands but is a new talent to the Irish exhibition scene. The award was announced by the poet and writer Brian Lynch, also the curator of The Visual Diaries, Fifty Years of Tony O'Malley’s Sketchbooks, the current exhibition on view at the Butler Gallery, which runs until December 4th, 2005. Jane O’Malley, widow of the artist, for whom the Award is named, made the presentation.

Waterford Crystal sponsors the Tony O'Malley Award for Painters. It was established to honour the late Tony O’Malley, a painter for whom travel at home and abroad was an important factor in his work. Open to painters only, the award amounts to €2,600 and is granted to a successful applicant who has a specific travel proposal.

"Waterford Crystal is proud to sponsor the Tony O'Malley Travel Award", said Michael Flynn, Director of Corporate Affairs at Waterford Crystal. "We are proud to sponsor it not only because it honours a great Irish artist but also because it provides practical assistance to emerging artists to pursue their calling in a real way. Importantly, it helps in the creation of art because each Award winner is encouraged to produce a portfolio of work by reason of the Award. It is doubly pleasing because the body of work that has developed from the Award grows each year."

Chloé Morrison's figurative paintings delve deeply inside the body to see what lies beneath the surface of the skin, often revealing the internal organs of her subjects on the exterior of their bodies. Morrison plans to develop the anatomical imagery in her work and will use this award to travel to La Specola Museum, a prestigious museum of 18th and 19th century wax anatomical models, housed within the Museum of Natural History in Florence for extensive study of its collection. These wax models were created in order to allow medical students to study anatomy without the need of human corpses and are all in some way flayed or cut open to reveal their inner workings.

La Specola has been described by writer Mark Dery as "The Sistine Chapel of ceroplasty (the art of modelling anatomical specimens in wax)."

The winner of the Tony O’Malley Travel Award for Painters was selected from a large number of submissions made to the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny. Past winners are Tom Molloy, Clare Cashman, Alan Keane, Colin Martin, Eoin Llewellyn, Eamon O Kane, and Tom Climent.

"Waterford Crystal is proud to sponsor the Tony O'Malley Travel Award", said Michael Flynn, Director of Corporate Affairs at Waterford Crystal. "The Award supports and encourages Irish artists in a tangible and worthwhile way. Importantly, it returns a dividend in that each Award winner is expected to produce a portfolio of work by reason of the Award."