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Margaret Olley
Turkish Pots and Lemons
Etching
59x78cm image size
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Margaret Olley was born in Lismore in 1923 and is one of Australia’s most respected still-life and interior painters. She fervently disregards trends of the modern art world, preferring to paint the humble, everyday objects that surround her. Vases of flowers, bowls of fruit and subjects from her home (with occasional hints of the outside world) are transformed from “the ordinary” into objects of beauty and elegance.
Olley has a unique sensibility for colour and conveys light and tone with consummate skill, drawn from an understanding of a long tradition of European painting. Her placement of objects is done with an exquisite eye for detail and pictorial harmony.
Margaret Olley first came to public attention in 1948 after her portrait by William Dobell won the Archibald Prize. She was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1997 and is represented in all major and state galleries and numerous private and corporate collections both in Australia and overseas.
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