Gabby Malpas NZ, Australia, b. 1966

Overview
I am a graduate of the Otago Art School, Dunedin NZ with a major in ceramics 1986. I consider and challenge the genre of Chinoiserie with my own narrative as a Chinese adoptee raised by white parents in NZ, reclaiming my heritage later in life. The resulting works are beautiful, delicate but with stories that draw you in for a closer look. This is a calculated contrast to the sometimes-confronting messages within my work. A proud maximalist, I currently live and work on Gadigal land of the Eora Nation, Sydney, Australia.
Works
Biography

Awards:

Finalist: Ravenswood Art Prize, Australia 2024

Finalist, North Sydney Art Prize, Australia 2024

Finalist: Art Gemini Prize Singapore 2023

Finalist: Paddington Art Prize Australia 2022

Finalist: Gosford Art Prize Australia 2022/2023

Finalist: FLOW Art prize Australia 2022/2023

Finalist: crackpot cup awards Australia - ceramics 2023

Distinguished Alumini Award: Dunedin Art School NZ, 2021

Finalist: Small Things Art award, Sydney 2021

Finalist: Greenway Art Prize, Sydney 2021

Finalist: Art Revolution Taipei 2017, 2018, invited artist 2019

Finalist: Mosman Art Prize, Australia 2016

Finalist: Moreton Bay Art Prize, Australia 2016

Finalist: Kirribilli Art Prize, Australia 2016

Finalist: Fleurieu Food & Wine Art prize, Australia 2016

Selected to hang: Linden Postcard Show, Australia 2015/2016

Selected to exhibit: James Kiwi Watercolour Prize, Australia 2012, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021

Highly commended: Westmead Hospital Art Prize, Australia 2012

Finalist: Nora Heysen Centenary Art Prize, Australia - Still life 2011

Highly commended: Watercolour: Blacktown City Art Prize, Australia: 2011 & 2012

Finalist: National Trust Harper's Mansion Art Prize, Australia - Still life 2011

Finalist: Hornsby Art Prize, Australia 2011

 

Selected solo exhibitions:

Chat Thai X Gabby Malpas: CNY 2024                                                                               Feb -Mar 2024

Window Display at the Ridge St Gallery, North Sydney                                        August 2023

'Stop Asian hate', Newtown Art Seat                                                                                   Nov 2022 - Feb 2023

'Poetic Resistance' Baker Miller Pink Gallery Sydney                                            October 2022

The painted garden, Dunedin NZ                                                                                          October 2021

Love and kisses COVID19, Chrissie Cotter Gallery                                                   November 2020

 Peranakan Dreams, Singapore                                                                                            February 2020

Springtime Happiness, Cordis Hotel, Hong Kong                                                     March 2019

The Magic Garden, Artshine Gallery, Chippendale                                                  December 2017

Happy: The Crawford Gallery, Sydney                                                                                March 2017

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

Pictures to make you smile St Vincent's Hospital, Paddington, Sydney      March 2011

Sydney Pictures Art at Home Gallery, Balmain, Sydney                                          February 2010

Art Sydney 2009/2010, Fox Studios, Sydney                                                                      October 2009/Nov 2010

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:

Work in store: Australian Design Centre,                                                                        Ongoing 2024

Art + Memory: Dunedin NZ                                                                                                         August 2024

Send me Across the Sea, San Francisco, USA                                                            April 2024

The Tea Exchange. Museum of Chinese in Australia, Sydney                          February - Apr 2024

Work Instore, The Australian Design Centre, Sydney                                             Feb 2024

The Guangxi Normal University Press Art Gallery                                                    October 2023

Culture Crash, Aro Gallery Sydney                                                                                     November 2019

Art Revolution: invited artist: Taipei                                                                                    April 2019

Bloom, Incinerator Artspace                                                                                                   October 2018

The Singapore/HK Affordable Art Fairs with Utterly Art, Singapore             November 2017-present

Dis/Harmony Thienny Lee Gallery, Edgecliff, Sydney                                            July 2017

Underwater escapade Amalgam Art, Barnes London                                           March 1996

Plunket art exhibition Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru New Zealand             June 1994

Brush and Spitsticker, West Oxfordshire arts association 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

 

 

Exhibitions
Bibliography

Press:

The Peranakan Association Magazine, Singapore June 2015, April 2019

The Daily Telegraph, Arts section: Gabby Malpas 16 October 2014

The Sydney Morning Herald: Spectrum 12 April 2014

Gabby Malpas: Artist's profile: Australian Art Review: Nov/Dec 2012: Issue 36

 

Links:

Eastern Standard Times media – Now on SBS Australia:

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/56-years-of-painting-1-lesson-on-anger/2246643779795

 

 

 

ONE KINGS LANE USA Dec 2017 spotlight:

https://www.onekingslane.com/live-love-home/gabby-malpas-art/ 

 

Tourism NZ 2015:

http://media.newzealand.com/en/news/tourism-new-zealand-world-first-embraces-colouring/

 

Arches paper interview:

http://www.arches-papers.com/the-floral-and-colourful-watercolours-by-gabby-malpas/

 

Arocolor Shanghai feature article:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/8ItplewowxSTB-G2Cb_WJw

 

The Universal Asian:

 https://theuniversalasian.com/2021/06/01/update-may-2021-7-years-on-from-writing-the-first-piece/

 

Chatswood Chase Sydney A/W2017 launch collaboration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmMPnbR5o7g

 

The Peranakan Association of Singapore:

https://www.peranakan.org.sg/2015/08/the-adoptee-as-artist/