Tag: Margaret Olley

Ian Fairweather commemorates Margaret Olley’s visit to Bribie Island

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   8 Sep 2019

Ian Fairweather’s cryptically titled painting MO, PB and the ti-tree was first exhibited, though not for sale, at the Macquarie Galleries, Sydney in 1965, in an acclaimed exhibition that highlighted works from the ‘Drunken Buddha’ series, as well as other recent paintings. A beautiful fabric of planes [that] tremble and fluctuate, support or oppose the…

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Margaret Olley: The subject is garden flowers

Posted by Glenn R Cooke   ●   4 Sep 2019

Margaret Olley, towards the end of her life, became one of the most affectionately regarded of Australian artists. Her still life and interior paintings attracted wide appreciation by the public. Although she produced landscapes and townscapes in the early part of her career, interiors and flower studies effectively dominated her production. Olley’s flower paintings in…

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Susan with flowers: A contemplative work by Margaret Olley

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   1 Sep 2019

In her studio underneath ‘Farndon’, her family home in Brisbane’s Hill End (now West End), Margaret Olley completed a series of paintings of Indigenous women and men. Susan with flowers 1962 is a major work from this group, and was awarded the 1963 Finney’s Centenary Art Prize, judged by the Queensland Art Gallery’s then director…

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Margaret Olley: Her works reflect her personality perfectly

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   28 Aug 2019

Renowned Australian artist William Robinson offers his personal reflections on Margaret Olley’s life, art practice, and his fond memories of visiting Olley in her home is Sydney. I used to go around and see her at Paddington in Sydney. Her house was more or less just a subject for her continual group of paintings. There…

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Margaret Olley: So much herself

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   17 Aug 2019

Christine France offers her personal reflections on Margaret Olley’s life, work and her generous spirit. Margaret was generous in her friendships, extraordinarily generous. Later on in life, when she could afford it, she was generous with gifting things to institutions. She reached out to friends, would pay their fares to places and publish books for…

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