Cairns Art Gallery exhibition running through to December 8.
Margaret Olley: A Life in Art tells the story of Olley’s incredible life and enduring career through her greatest legacy – her art. The exhibition includes artwork from as early as 1938, painted at just 15 years of age, through to 2011, the year of her death.
Olley’s incredible career, enormous capacity for friendship and dedication to the art world, have made her one of Australia’s most loved and celebrated artists.
Extract : Her journey as an artist can be explored and contextualised through the diverse nature of the works in this exhibition, drawn exclusively from the collection at the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.
In 1964 she purchased 48 Duxford Street, Paddington ,Sydney– the property that became her famous home studio and now re-created at the Margaret Olley Art Centre in the Tweed Regional Gallery in Murwillumbah.
48 Duxford Street became an ecosystem of art and life. The home was filled with furnishings, textiles, vases, jugs, bowls, coffee pots and flowers – all collected as subject matter for painting.
The exhibition includes interiors and still lifes from Duxford Street as well as photographs by her artist friend Greg Weight, who photographed her home studio in the days following her death.
Thanks to our arty Aeronautical Correspondent , Abra , in Cairns, this post is a follow up to the recent one in Little Darwin which mentioned Olley's connection with Tully , Magnetic Island and Townsville .
(Olley, Artist, Cairns .)
