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A Dictionary for Painting: Margaret Olley, Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt
Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Arts Centre presents

A Dictionary for Painting: Margaret Olley, Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt

Margaret Olley’s famous Duxford Street home studio was both her site and subject matter for painting for nearly 50 years. By invitation, contemporary artists Robert Malherbe and Keith Burt have created new work in response to Olley’s practice and objects contained in her home studio. A Dictionary for Painting includes superb examples of Olley’s work on loan from public and private collections. Exhibited alongside the contemporary responses by Malherbe and Burt, and the objects from the home studio re-creation, the exhibition offers audiences a fresh perspective of Olley’s incredible legacy in the history of Australian art.

Margaret Olley (1923 – 2011)
Still life with cornflowers 1995
oil on board, 66.9 x 90.1 cm
On loan from University Art Collection, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney

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