Painting Life: Margaret Olley and works from the collection

14 March 2025 - 31 August 2025

Wildflowers with pears

Margaret Olley (1923–2011)
Wildflowers and pears c. 1973
oil on board, 65 × 76 cm
Purchased through the bequest of Phoebe McNamara and the Tweed Regional Gallery Donations Fund, 2019.
Tweed Regional Gallery collection.
© Margaret Olley Art Trust

Painting Life: Margaret Olley and works from the collection celebrates vibrant still life paintings by Margaret Olley (1923–2011) in the Tweed Regional Gallery collection, together with contemporary responses to Olley’s home studio re-creation that is on permanent display at the Margaret Olley Art Centre.

Alongside Olley’s still life paintings, the exhibition features responses by artists Nicholas Harding, John Honeywill, Guido Maestri, Lewis Miller, Adam Pyett, Monica Rohan, Pam Tippett, together with recent still life acquisitions by Keith Burt, Laura Jones, Robert Malherbe, India Mark and Mirra Whale.

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