ABOUT VERONICA ...
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 as part of their collection.
Veronica has been a finalist in major art awards.
In 2024 she was a finalist in the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award with her painting of Lindy Chamberlain.
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.
In 2023 and 2024 she exhibited at Project 90 Gallery Paddington Sydney, The Hive Gallery Ocean Grove Victoria, Grainger Gallery Canberra, Gallery Bodalla and in 2025 at Madeline Gordon Gallery Launceston.
www.veronicaoleary.com
@veronicaoleary_art Instagram
Veronica has been a finalist in major art awards.
In 2024 she was a finalist in the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award with her painting of Lindy Chamberlain.
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.
In 2023 and 2024 she exhibited at Project 90 Gallery Paddington Sydney, The Hive Gallery Ocean Grove Victoria, Grainger Gallery Canberra, Gallery Bodalla and in 2025 at Madeline Gordon Gallery Launceston.
www.veronicaoleary.com
@veronicaoleary_art Instagram
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VERONICA O'LEARY
MA Visual Arts, BA Fine Arts, BA Hons, Dip Ed Solo Exhibitions 2025 Made in Tasmania. Madeline Gordon Gallery. Launceston. 2024 A Closer Look. Project Gallery 90. Sydney 2024 Curator’s Collection. Project Gallery Woollahra 2024 Simple Pleasures. Gallery Bodalla 2024 Prima Vera - A Floral Celebration. Grainger Gallery. Canberra 2024 Ivy Hill Gallery Goes West. Cootamundra Arts Centre 2023 Nurture the soul. The Hive Gallery Ocean Grove. Victoria 2023 Abundance and Rarity. Project Gallery 90. Paddington. Sydney 2022 Aristology 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. Melbourne 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. National Museum of Australia. Canberra Awards 2025 Finalist The Next Big Thing. The Toowoomba Gallery 2024 The Shirley Hannah National Portrait Award. SECCA Bega 2024 The Next Big Thing. The Toowoomba Gallery. Toowoomba 2024 Finalist Inside this Box The Corner Store Gallery. Orange 2022/23 Finalist Tacit Still Life Art Prize. Melbourne 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 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 Selected Group Exhibitions 2024 Food Glorious Food Project Gallery 90. Paddington. Sydney 2023 More Oysters Please. Project Gallery 90. Paddington. Sydney 2023 Abundance and Rarity.Project Gallery 90. Paddington. Sydney 2023 Something Sicilian. 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 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 |
Waratah and Midden Shells Hobart, 153x102cm, oil on canvas, 2024
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