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Margaret Olley b. 22 June 1923

Also known as Margaret Hannah Olley

Artist

After her first Australian solo painting exhibitions, Olley worked and exhibited in France in the 1950s. An endearing personality, Olley had many travelling and working friendships with other Australian artists. Olley died at her home in Paddington, Sydney, on 26th July 2011.

exhibited at

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to now Part 1

Date: 14 November 2020 - 4 July 2021
Place: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description: Know My Name is an exhibition in two parts at the National Gallery of Australia. It is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of work by women, presented in a thematic rather than chronological form. It reveals relationships between the present and the past, relationships between artists, and common concerns.
Tags: Women artists, Feminism, Modernism, Indigenous, Painting, Video art, Multimedia, Photo-based art-work, Sculpture, Embroidery
Website: https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/australian-women-artists-1900-now/

exhibited at

BRAG 200x200

Date: 27 March 2015 - 14 June 2015
Place: Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
Description: BRAG 200X200 features 200 paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, photographs, installations and new media works drawn from Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s permanent collection.

exhibited at

Look, Look Again

Date: 20 October 2011 - 15 December 2012
Place: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA
Description: Exhibition showcasing highlights from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art (CCWA), which was gifted to the University of Western Australia in 2007. A companion publication titled 'Into the Light’ that documented the history and key works of the CCWA was released to coincide with the exhibition, which also featured a symposium – 'Are we there yet?’ – discussing women’s participation in art and art history and the future of feminism in the arts.
Type: Exhibition
Website: http://www.lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/exhibitions/past/look-look-again

exhibited at

Margaret Olley retrospective

Date

1997

Place

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW

Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW annual report

Exhibition Catalogue:
Pearce, Barry, Margaret Olley. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996
ISBN 0731094514

Type

Exhibition

Tags

Retrospective, Painting

exhibited at

Women and Art

Date: 4 August 1995 - 5 August 1995
Place: Mary Place Gallery, Paddington, NSW
Description: auction preview for Dalia Stanley Auctioneers, auction held 6 August 1995
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition

exhibited at

Review

Date: 8 March 1995 - 8 June 1995
Place: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description: Speaking of Women, four guest lectures; by Nancy Underhill, Ann Thomson, Margo Neale, Joan Kerr; held over successive Fridays, 10-31 March 1995, by the Art Gallery Society.
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition

exhibited at

Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art

Date: 8 March 1995 - July 1995
Place: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas.
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition

exhibited at

Australian Women Artists of the Twentieth Century from the collection of Elinor and Fred Wrobel

Date: 8 March 1995 - 1995
Place: Woolloomooloo Gallery, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW
Description: touring exhibition. Lewers Bequest and Penrith Regional Art Gallery show launched by Joan Kerr, 11 June 1995.
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition

exhibited at

Women Artists from the Maitland City Gallery Collection

Date: 1 March 1995 - 31 March 1995
Place: Maitland City Art Gallery, Maitland, NSW
Description: Opened 8 March 1995.
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition

exhibited at

In the Company of Women: 100 years of Australian women's art from the Cruthers collection

Date: 16 February 1995 - 13 March 1995
Place: PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts), WA
Description: Opened by Dr Liz Constable MLA, Member for Floreat, 15 February 1995
Type: Exhibition
Tags: National Women's Art Exhibition