Eileen Knox O'Malley (née Rose, 6 September 1909 – 21 July 2003) was a New Zealand art teacher and artist. Some of her design work is held in the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[1]
Biography
Rose was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 6 September 1909, the daughter of Mary Dorothea Rose (née Green) and Arthur Brooke Rose.[2][3][4][5] Her mother's sister, Maggie, was married to James Hight.[6] Rose moved to Christchurch and enrolled in 1929 at the School of Arts at Canterbury College, graduating in 1937 with a diploma in fine arts. During this time she was friends with Betty Curnow and Rita Angus.[7] She continued her art studies at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and in Paris, France.[2][8]
Rose returned to New Zealand in August 1939 and, after a few months as a temporary teacher at Christchurch Girls' High School and Christchurch West High School, became an art teacher at Wellington Technical College and the Correspondence School.[2][9] She taught embroidery and also practised silversmithing and jewellery making.[10] Her complex design patterns, such as the example in the Auckland War Memorial Museum, could have been created for either textile or wallpaper design.[1]
Rose married artist Clifford John O'Malley, who was a contemporary at the School of Arts in Christchurch.[7][11] She died on 21 July 2003,[3] and was buried at Makara Cemetery, Wellington.[12] She had been predeceased by her husband, Cliff, and son, John James O'Malley, who both died in 1995.[12]
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