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Yvonne Gallagher is a Malaysian-born Australian contemporary artist whose work is shaped by a life lived across cultures and coastlines. Having lived in Kuala Lumpur, Bermuda, and Dublin before settling in Sydney, her global journey informs both her artistic perspective and visual language.
A self-taught painter with a professional background in finance, Yvonne brings analytical discipline and structural clarity into a deeply expressive creative practice. She continues to reflect a rare fusion of logic and intuition, precision and spontaneity. This duality underpins her steady rise as an emerging artist whose works are increasingly collected internationally.
Based in Sydney Northern Beaches, Yvonne paints from within the elements rather than observing from afar. Whether sailing, paddle boarding, swimming, or travelling by ferry, she captures landscapes as they are experienced from the water itself — immersive, expansive, and alive. Working primarily in thick impasto acrylic, she builds textured, light-filled compositions defined by layered surfaces and luminous blues and greens that evoke movement, tranquillity, and horizon-bound freedom.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Ken Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York, Van Gogh Gallery in Madrid, Red Dot Miami, and the World Art Fair in Paris. As a globally exhibited emerging artist, Gallagher continues to cultivate a growing collector base across different corners of the world while remaining grounded in her passion for the ocean and the everyday beauty it offers.
Artist Statement:
For Yvonne Gallagher, the ocean is both subject and sanctuary.
Travel serves as the quiet engine of her creativity. Each coastline, harbour, and horizon expands the way she sees and experiences the world. Living by the sea has transformed her perspective: she paints landscapes not from the shore, but from within them. Whether on a paddle board, sailing across open water, or immersed in the stillness of the blue hour just after sunset, she works from direct experience of the elements she seeks to capture.
Her palette is dominated by blues and greens — colours that echo calm, depth, and renewal. Working in thick impasto acrylic, Yvonne builds layered surfaces from dark to light, allowing underlying tones to reveal themselves through texture and gesture. Each painting begins with a considered structure, reflecting her finance background, yet within that framework she allows intuitive movement and expressive mark-making that mirror the rhythm of the sea.
Drawn to the horizon as a symbol of possibility and transition, Yvonne creates immersive compositions that invite viewers to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the expansive energy of nature. Her practice embodies balance — between discipline and freedom, structure and spontaneity, profession and passion – as she continues to explore what it means to see the world anew and share that vision through paint.
EDUCATION
2025 New York Academy of Art – Art and Design of Landscape Painting
2025 New York Academy of Art – Visual Composition Workshop
2024 Classical drawing studies at Julian Ashton Art School
2002 Lecturer | Sunway University
1999 Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) (UK)
1997 London Chamber of Commerce Industries (LCCI)
1997 Diploma in Accounting
EXHIBITION
2024 Ken Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
2025 Van Gogh Gallery, Madrid
2025 World Art Fair, Paris
2025 Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, New York
2025 Red Dot, Miami
2026 Harvey Galleries, Sydney
For Land | Sea | Air at Harvey Galleries, Yvonne Gallagher presents works that immerse viewers in the elemental dialogue between sky and water. Painting from within the landscape rather than observing from afar, Gallagher captures coastal horizons as they are experienced from the sea — fluid, expansive, and alive with light.
Working in layered impasto acrylic, her compositions are defined by luminous blues, shifting skies, and textured surfaces that evoke both movement and stillness. The horizon becomes a central motif – a meeting point of air and sea – symbolising openness, transition, and possibility.
As an emerging artist balancing a professional background in finance with a growing international practice, Gallagher brings both structure and intuition to her work. In Land | Sea | Air, her paintings offer a contemplative pause – inviting viewers to step into the elements and experience the restorative rhythm of nature from within.
COLLECTION
Four Seasons New York Downtown
Private collections in Kuala Lumpur, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, New York and Sydney
Yvonne is available for commissions for public and private spaces.
PUBLICATION
Forbes Australia – Journey
The Art Edit Interior Design
Land | Sea | Air brings together artists Yvonne Gallagher, Belinda Nadwie, John Martono, Kate Pittas and Jude Rose, whose practices explore the elemental forces that shape our world and our experience of place.… Continue reading
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