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Wed 11 Nov 2002Times past in a paper trailVISUAL ART/Aidan DunneReviewed: Tony O'Malley: 50 Years, Taylor Galleries ended Nov 23rdMarkings: Tony O'Malley and Jane O'Malley, Graphic Studio Gallery until Dec 7th (01-6798021)Now and Then: Michael Coleman, Cross Gallery until Nov 30th (01 473 8978)House to House, Rita Duffy, Lead White Gallery, ended Nov 26th (01-6607500)Abacus: Louise Neiland, 25/26 Gt Strand Street, ended Nov 23rdPledge: Susan Philipsz, Temple Bar Gallery until Nov 30th (01- 6710073)The recent Tony O'Malley exhibition at the Taylor Galleries, 50 Years, was cautiously billed as a selective retrospective of works on paper. It was selective not only in numeric terms, because he has been a prolific artist throughout most of those 50 years, but also in the view of his work that the show offered. He has always drawn his inspiration from his immediate circumstances and surroundings and, despite the stylised or abstracted nature of much of what he has done, he has never been an abstract artist, so that his work is a day-to-day, even hour-to-hour record of his life.