"Well, well, well. A scientist begets an artist!"
Rod Malay, a cousin of Sir Isaac Newton... DNA fact
He is an inventor... interesting products... a two seater pedal vehicle for intercity transportation, to cut down on fuel consumption, 1979.
He is an architect... conceives interesting hand-made environmentally friendly habitats. Check out the "Nile House", Gottington and Charles Streets, Halifax, affectionately called "The Boob House". Rod designed and built it. The terrace glass ceiling art piece, titled: Absolutely But Not Absolute, he created with Agne, Lithuania artist. He also builds homes out of straw bales to save the forests.
He is a visual artist ... paints socially activist pictures, various styles, abstract, realistic, contemporary... he mixes the old masters, as Glenn Gould did with Mozart music to create new music, new narratives. He painted Dali/Hume"Persistent Memory with Sir Isaac Newton", his famous apple, melting in his hand, like those dripping clocks;images He painted Da Vinci/Pierre's "Mona Lisa with Diana and Callisto" (Greek/Roman mythology) ; He mixed Van Gogh's "Starry Night with Da Vinci Salvator Mundi"... He is working on "Freud with Picasso's Frau mit Tumburin", an intriguing psychology event. Well, he actually calls his paintings "events", re Rosenberg, "what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event". Basically, he writes stories with images.
He is an architect... conceives interesting hand-made environmentally friendly habitats. Check out the "Nile House", Gottington and Charles Streets, Halifax, affectionately called "The Boob House". Rod designed and built it. The terrace glass ceiling art piece, titled: Absolutely But Not Absolute, he created with Agne, Lithuania artist. He also builds homes out of straw bales to save the forests.
He is a visual artist ... paints socially activist pictures, various styles, abstract, realistic, contemporary... he mixes the old masters, as Glenn Gould did with Mozart music to create new music, new narratives. He painted Dali/Hume"Persistent Memory with Sir Isaac Newton", his famous apple, melting in his hand, like those dripping clocks;images He painted Da Vinci/Pierre's "Mona Lisa with Diana and Callisto" (Greek/Roman mythology) ; He mixed Van Gogh's "Starry Night with Da Vinci Salvator Mundi"... He is working on "Freud with Picasso's Frau mit Tumburin", an intriguing psychology event. Well, he actually calls his paintings "events", re Rosenberg, "what was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event". Basically, he writes stories with images.
The Ped-llon
The Nile House (Affectionately called "The Boob" House)
Nile House (Terrace ceiling) glass
The Building of The Nile House Architect, Designer, Builder Rod Malay
The CEO "Chairman of the Board"
Starry Night/Salvator Mundi/ Malay,Van Gogh, Da Vinci
Joan of Arc
Behind God's Mask
Greying White 2011
Crowded Nest (serigraph 1980)
NFC Halifax 1987
Body Parts Game
Homer 1975
Pandora 2011
The Cowboy of Shangri-la (meeting the Mayor 1986)
The Cowboy of Shangri-la
ANA (at AGNS plaza 2012)
ANA (GALLERIA UNPLUGGED 2012)
ANA
Grace In Motion (Prep for bronze 2016)
Rod (The New York cop)
Femme de Pensar
Femme de Pensar (humour)
Composter at Jasper Bog (Rod's home)
Child's Play NFC
No Further Comment Ottawa Citizen
No Further Comment Ottawa July 1st 1987
Ritual Detention
Ritual Detention
No Further Comment (NFC) Halifax 1987
Tank Woman NFC
The Artist 1980
He is a sculptor works in metal, fiberglass, paper mache, clay, wood, plaster of paris... created multiple sculptures: Woman Thinker, Sad Man and others..
He is an installation artist... constructed a 45' military tank installation, walk through sculpture, loaded with fiberglass and paper mache figures (Canada Council gave him a grant, called him the "Master of paper mache". The tank was bolted to the 45 foot trailer hooked to his old 18 wheel freightliner and drove it across Canada, decrying the death of society, 1987, called it, No Further Comment, was a national media hit, generated 30,000 spectators, free visits.
He is a costume designer... outfitted the Shangri-la Cowboy concept, full regalia, guns, spears and all ... like a Don Quixote, rented a horse and trotted around the city streets pointing out to people the importance of accepting human diversity and tolerance in our differences. The Mayor greeted him and receive one of his sand-dollars of peace. ...
Oh, there is much much more... much more...!!!
There is his name: Rod Malay, Mallay, O'Mally, Mailley, O'Malley, Mailey, Maley, Mealey. The surname Maley first found in Ireland from ancient times... his DNA in Westport with his woman name sake... Grace O'Malley lord of Ó Máille dynasty, well-known figure 16th-century Irish history, actual name, Gráinne Ní Mháille, feared no man, was dangerously adept with sword in one hand and pistol in the other at the prow of her ship, of which she had many. Survived well into her 70's, died comfortably in her castle, her dogs by her side, was much admired by the English Queen, Elizabeth 1st
Rod (Ruairí Ó Máille) has sculpted in clay, Gráinne in modernity, to be a 10 foot bronze statue, bolted to granite rocks on Nova Scotia shore... standing symbolically, unconquerable against the ferocity of the North Atlantic Ocean, declaring Rod's deep respect for women, the inspiration with many of his art events.
Ruairí Ó Máille, a published author, a guitar musician, song writer, poet, social art activist, an actor. Sentient psychology, which is neither a "primitive and simple form of cognitive psychology" nor "unconscious" Freudianism, guides his creative force daily, frequently, without concoction. Concepts, fully configured, appear in his mind, as if instructions from another source, not the supernatural fantasy of patriarcal rituals, but to an event in the moment, that triggers an ancient memory, another event, in the 37 trillion cellular structure of the body, millenia ago, even back to the first cell.
Ruairí is a visionary, producing a new art series of events, titled: The Ant Race 1021, addressing the Catastrophic Denial of Reality, leading the global human society to the precipice of extinction. Is there a way back...the scientists say "there is". Ruairi is not sure humanity can put on the brakes.
His work is ever current and applicable to past and present societal global events
There is much more about to show, to tell, as well in his blog: www.shakethedevilofftour.blogspot.com
He is a graduate of NSCAD and wants a Gallery exhibition , could bring thousands of visitors, even surpassing the numbers at his Army Tank, 30,000.
What do you think... like it or not? As I see it, my art fits well within galleries Vision and Mission. At 77 yrs, I have crossed many borders, Actually, had a show at AGNS, 1980 with my silk screen series, followed by a tour of NS, set up by the Gallery, which also purchased one of my prints.
Sincerely
Rod Ruairí
rod_malay@hotmail.com NS # 902 830 8187 (Turned off, out of country till June 2020) 954 290 3832 FL
In all the genre, the mission of art is the advancement of human civilization and the preservation of this planet. Ruairí Ó Máille .
