Tony O'Malley (1913-2003) is acknowledged as one of the most loved Irish painters of the 20th Century. Born in Callan, Co. Kilkenny, his career spanned over five decades and he settled for a substantial period of that in St Ives. This selected exhibition touring from the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, curated by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, celebrates the achievements of O'Malley and his unique vision defined by his association with Modernism in St Ives and the Cornish landscape.

Including more than twenty works; self portraits, landscapes, abstracts and constructions, the exhibition highlights key moments beginning with an early work made in St Ives in the mid-1950s.

St Ives - The Old Gas Works was made at the time when O'Malley first visited the colony in 1955. Tate St Ives now stands on the site of the old gas works depicted by the artist. Following his retirement as a banker on the grounds of ill health, the artist devoted himself full-time to painting, moving to Cornwall in 1960 where he stayed for the next thirty years.