An artist’s view: Margaret Olley and contemporaries

25 February 2022 - 28 August 2022

Hawksbury wildflowers

Margaret Olley (1923 – 2011)
Hawkesbury Wildflowers | 1970
oil on board, 96.5 x 121.7cm
Tweed Regional Gallery collection
Gift of the Friends of Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Art Centre Inc., 2021
© Margaret Olley Art Trust

An artist’s view brings together interiors and still life paintings by Margaret Olley and works by contemporary artists who have taken inspiration from Margaret Olley, her practice and her famous Duxford Street home studio. Including painting, photography and works on paper, the exhibition presents different artist’s views and responses to her still life and interior subjects.

Artists exhibiting alongside Margaret Olley in this exhibition include Steven Alderton, Danelle Bergstrom, Cressida Campbell, Christine Druitt-Preston, Nicholas Harding, John Honeywill, Lewis Miller, Greg Weight and William Yang.

This exhibition is drawn entirely from the Tweed Regional Gallery collection.