Leith O'Malley

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Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Location	South Oz (Australia), Australia
Introduction	Contemporary visual artist working in traditional and digital illustration.
Interests	Addicted to art, infatuated with good music.
Favorite Movies	Art docos, Requiem for a Dream, Basquiat, Modigliani, Howl's Moving Castle, Round Midnight, The Game, Lost in Translation, Love Liza, Tv docos with people like Reg Mombassa, Brett Whiteley and Robert Crumb in them.
Favorite Music	At the moment it's Tom Waits, Holden (France), Nick Cave, Bent, Zero 7, The Go Betweens, Dog Trumpet, Lucinda Williams, Morrisey, Cat Power, Lambchop, Clap Your Hands and say Yeah, The Decemberists, Lemon Jelly, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sufjen Stevens, Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes, Damnwells, Telepopmuzic, The Weepies, Be Good Tanyas, Camera Obscura, St Germain and Velvet Underground.. and pretty much everything Laura Veirs...
Favorite Books	Shaun Tan, Robert Crumb, The Warhol Diaries, Shock of the New by Robert Hughes, Anything by Bellmusker, David Hockney:Secret Knowledge - Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, Michael Leunig, Australian Artist, Jeffrey Smart : unpublished paintings 1940-2007, Australian Painter, Australian Contemporary Art, Tattooed Portraits by Shawn Barber, The Lost Thing by Shaun Tan and of course Green Eggs and Ham, Adelaide, The Illustrator, The Artist, South Australian art.

You can punch a hole in an apple using a straw. How do you think that makes your milkshake feel?

Everything can be solved with a tube of burnt umber, a turps drenched rag and a large canvas..