Margaret
Olley
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| 1923 - 1925 |
Born 1923 in Lismore , New South
Wales . Family moves to Tully and later Murwillumbah.
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| 1935 - 1940 |
Family moves to Brisbane
and then back to Tully. Attends the girls school,
Somerville House. Art lessons with Carol Baker.
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| 1941 |
Enrols in
art classes at Brisbane Technical College |
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| 1942 - 1943 |
Moves to Sydney and enrols at East
Sydney Technical College . |
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| 1944 - 1947 |
Graduates from East Sydney Technical
College . Wins Mosman Art Prize. |
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| 1948 |
Stays with Donald Friend in Hill
End. First solo exhibition held at Macquarie Galleries.
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| 1949 |
William Dobell's portrait of her
wins Archibald Prize. Travels to England , then
Paris . Attends classes at Academie de la Grande
Chaumiere. |
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| 1950 - 1952 |
Travels to Spain and Brittany ,
Venice , Lisbon and London . |
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| 1953 |
Returns to Australia after father
dies. Lives in Brisbane |
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| 1954 |
She and Donald Friend travel by
jeep to far north Queensland staying in Cairns and
on Magnetic Island . Travels to New Guinea and spends
a month painting on Quatto Island |
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| 1958 |
Wins Lismore Art Prize. |
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| 1959 |
Opens antique shop in Brisbane .
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| 1960 - 1963 |
Does a number of figure paintings
with Aboriginal girls as subjects. Wins Helena Rubinstein
Portrait Prize, Redcliffe Art Prize, Bendigo Art
Prize and Finney's Centenary Art Prize. |
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| 1964 |
Wins Johnsonian Club Art Prize.
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| 1965 - 1968 |
Wins the Redcliffe Art Prize. Travels
three times to New Guinea , travels by canoe up
the Sepik River with artist Douglas Annand. |
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| 1969 |
Travels to Malaysia , Thailand ,
Cambodia and Bali . |
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| 1971 |
Travels through Bali , Hong Kong
, India , Iran , Turkey and Athens before spending
three months in the Moya Drying Studio at Cite Internationale
des Arts, Paris . Travels to the south of France
. Morocco and Madrid and returns to Australia .
Does a series of paintings in David Strachan's house.
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| 1972 |
Exhibition 'Homage' of paintings
done while staying in Strachan's house. |
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| 1973 - 1975 |
Divides her time between Sydney
, Brisbane and Newcastle . Travels to London , the
south of France , Spain and attends a Miro exhibition
in Paris . |
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| 1976 - 1977 |
Travels to London . Visits Amsterdam
, Bruges , Brussels and Paris for Chardin exhibition.
Visits Venice , Florence and Jeffrey Smart in Arrezo.
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| 1978 - 1979 |
Stays at Moya Drying Paris studio.
Travels to Strasbourg for Bonnard exhibition. Tours
through France . |
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| 1980 |
Family home, Fardon, in Brisbane
, burns down. Travels to London . Visits Paris ,
Florence and Balthus exhibition in Venice , then
Athens and Mykinos. |
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| 1981 |
V isits Thailand , India and Sri
Lanka . Later goes to United States and sees Morandi
retrospective. |
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| 1983 |
Travels to the Philippines and Burma
. Later travels to London , Majorca , Barcelona
and Paris for the Manet retrospective. |
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| 1984 |
Visits Paris for Bonnard retrospective
and New York for the Balthus exhibition. |
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| 1985 |
Travels to Victoria Falls , Greece
and Egypt . |
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| 1987 |
Travels to New York and Washington
to see exhibitions covering last period of Van Gogh
and Nice period of Matisse. |
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| 1988 |
Starts to donate works of art to
public collections. Travels to Beijing , Leningrad
, Moscow , London , Bruges , Paris and Rome . |
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| 1990 |
Retrospective at National Trust
S.H. Ervin Gallery. Establishes Margaret Hannah
Olley Art Trust to buy works for public collections.
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| 1991 |
Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters
by Macquarie University and appointed Officer (AO)
Order of Australia. Travels to Korea and Japan .
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| 1992 |
Flies to New York for Matisse retrospective.
In May, tours through Germany and visits Prague
and travels on to the United Kingdom . |
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| 1994 |
Solo exhibition in London . Sees
Poussin and Derain exhibitions in Paris |
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| 1995 |
Visits London and Paris to see Cezanne
retrospective and exhibitions of Giorgione, Titan
and Matisse. |
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| 1996 |
Travels to see Degas exhibition
in London , Corot in Paris and Vermeer in The Hague
. Retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South
Wales , Sydney . |
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| 1997 |
Declared an Australian National
Treasure. Made Life Governor of the Art Gallery
of New South Wales . |
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| 1998 |
Travels to London for Bonnard exhibition.
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| 1999 |
Solo exhibition at Nevill Keating
Pictures Ltd, London . Achievers Award from Federal
Government. Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Letters
by the University of Queensland . |
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| 2000 |
Co-curator with Barry Humphries
of 'Favourites' exhibition at National Trust S.H.
Ervin Gallery. Flies to London via Cairo for group
exhibition. Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Visual
Arts by the University of Sydney . |
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| 2001 |
Art Gallery of New South Wales names
The Margaret Olley, Twentieth Century European Gallery.
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| Selected Solo Exhibitions
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| 1989 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane ,
8 - 30 September |
| 1990 |
Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide , (Adelaide Festival
exhibition), 27 February - 31 March |
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'The Art of Margaret Olley', National Trust S.H.
Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 3 August - 9 September; toured
to Brisbane City Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Brisbane,
15 September - 7 October; Lismore Regional Art Gallery,
New South Wales, 13 October - 17 November |
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Australian Galleries, Melbourne , 10 - 27 October
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| 1991 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney , 14 October - 2
November |
| 1993 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane , 10 September
- 2 October |
| 1994 |
Browse and Darby, London , 30 November - 23 December
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| 1995 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney , 23 October - 22
November |
| 1996 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane , 24 September
- 19 October |
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 October
1996 - 5 January 1997; toured to Brisbane City Hall
Art Gallery and Museum, 17 January - 23 February
1997; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, New South Wales,
19 April - 8 June 1997 |
| 1997 |
Australian Galleries, Sydney , 13 October - 15
November |
| 1998 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane , 6 - 31 October
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| 1999 |
Nevill Keating Pictures Ltd, London , 10 - 25
June |
| 2000 |
Brian Moore Fine Art and Philip Bacon Galleries,
exhibiting at Sotheby's Gallery, Sydney, 18 October
- 4 November |
| 2001 |
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane , 27 November
- 22 December |
| Collections |
Air
Force Association, Williamtown
Allied
Queensland Coalfield Ltd, Brisbane
Artbank
Art Gallery
of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery
of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery
of Western Australia, Perth
Australian
National Gallery, Canberra
Australian
National University , Canberra
Bendigo
Art Gallery , Victoria
Brisbane
City Hall Art Gallery and Museum
Brisbane
Club
Brisbane
College of Advanced Education
Brisbane
Grammar School
Broken
Hill Proprietary Ltd, Newcastle , New South Wales
Canberra
College of Advanced Education
Canberra
School of Art Gallery
The Centre
Gallery, Gold Coast, Queensland
Lismore
Regional Art Gallery , New South Wales
Maitland
City Art Gallery , New South Wales
National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle
Region Art Gallery , New South Wales
Newcastle
University , New South Wales
Queensland
Art Gallery , Brisbane
Queensland
Teachers' Union , G.A. Daughtrey Collection, Brisbane
Redcliffe
Arts Centre, Queensland
Rockhampton
Art Gallery , Queensland
Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery , Hobart
Toowoomba
Art Gallery , Queensland
University
and Schools Club, Sydney
University
of New South Wales , Sydney
University
of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
University
of Sydney
Woollongong City Gallery , New South Wales |
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