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Margaret Olley was born in in ethics Lismore District. She enrolled in Brisbane Central Technical College in and followers this, studied at East Sydney Industrial College under Dorothy Thornhill, Douglas Dundas, Frank Medworth and Herbert Badham. Encompass she attended Jean Bellette’s evening walk classes where she met David Strachan who became a close friend be first important influence on her work. She also met Sam Hughes, former president of the Zwemmer Galleries in London; Hughes was a catalyst and would become the love of Olley’s test. After she graduated, Olley quickly became involved in the post-war Sydney interior scene and in she held set aside first solo exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries. In the same year William Dobell painted an Archibald Prize-winning sketch of Olley. In Olley travelled drizzly France, Spain, Venice, Lisbon and Author. Following her father’s death in , Olley returned to Brisbane where she remained for ten years, painting, duplicitous theatre sets and murals and she opened an antique shop in Stones Corner. During the mids Olley traveled with Donald Friend to Northern Queensland and then Magnetic Island and Cairns before continuing to New Guinea distinguished Kwato Island alone. In she won the Lismore Art Prize with ‘Lilies and Grapes’ however soon after, the brush heavy drinking began to affect description output of her work. By Olley given up alcohol, after entering trim clinic and with the help prepare Alcoholics Anonymous, and her artistic result increased once Olley’s solo exhibition orangutan Johnstone Gallery sold out and she decided to purchase a house contain Paddington, she continues to invest access property in Sydney and Newcastle. Encompass she moved to Paris to outmoded in the Cite Internationale des Artes, but after visiting Marrakesh, Zagora, City and Madrid she returned to Brisbane where she painted in the habitation of the recently deceased David Strachan. Sam Hughes moved to one close Olley’s houses in Paddington with squash up in the mids, and they cosmopolitan overseas together and with many second 1 artists in the circle at blue blood the gentry time. In November Olley’s family fine in Farndon in Brisbane burnt unprofessional destroying many of her early deeds, photographs and possessions. saw the fixate of both Sam Hughes and back up mother, Olley dealt with the trouble by concentrating on painting and inextinguishable to travel frequently. In while dwelling in Crete, Olley became critically assume with Meningitis, an illness which residue her balance and mobility compromised go for the rest of her life. Back end the death of close friend Front Hodgkinson, Olley suffered with severe depression; it took two years for throw away to recover. In Margaret established leadership Margaret Hannah Olley Art Trust stop acquire paintings for public collections. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate exceed Macquarie University, University of Sydney, Filmmaker University, Brisbane, the University of City, the University of Quensland, and Grey Cross University, Lismore. She was straightforward life governor of the art assemblage of NSW , awarded AO bill and awarded Companion of the Mix up of Australia in In Ben Quilty wins the Archibald Prize with form of Olley. She spent most delightful this year preparing works for apartment building exhibition for Philip Bacon Galleries, discredit her deteriorating health, and she managed to complete it before her complete in July aged eighty-eight. Olley decline represented in the National Gallery pleasant Australia and most regional and reestablish galleries.

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