Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She was the eldest of three children of Joseph Olley and Grace (née Temperley). The Olley family moved to Tully in far north Queensland in 1925, with Margaret boarding at St Anne's in Townsville in 1929, before returning to New South Wales in 1931. The family temporarily moved to Brisbane in 1935 with Margaret staying to attend Somerville House in Brisbane during her high school years. She was so focused on art that she dropped one French class in order to take another art lesson with teacher and artist Caroline Barker.[1]
In 1941, Margaret commenced classes at Brisbane Central Technical College and then moved to Sydney in 1943 to enrol in an Art Diploma course at East Sydney Technical College where she graduated with A-class honours in 1945.
BRISBANE CONNECTION
At the age of 10, Margaret Olley moved to Brisbane where her journey to becoming an artist began. She was a boarder from 1937 to 1940 at South Brisbane’s Somerville House for girls, where she met fellow student Margaret Cilento. In 1953 Olley returned from travelling abroad to the family home in Hill End. The old Queenslander house, Farndon, would play a pivotal role in her life, tying her to Brisbane for many years with it’s calm presence of high-ceilinged, generous rooms and lush subtropical garden.
展示会をみてお隣のArt museumで日本の芸術をみました。伊藤深水とかありましたよ。
マーガレットオリーさんをみた記念にカード一枚と明日義理親にあうお土産にマーガレットのカード一枚かいました。
義理親が以前カランビンでマーガレットおりーの美術館のことを教えてくれたのです。
ジモピーにはおなじみのアーティストです。
期待していかなかったのですが、やはり迫力あっていってよかったです。
