Video tour: Shirley Purdie
OLSEN GalleryMarch 2022
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Vipoo Srivilasa creates a shrine-like sanctuary to house five contemporary deities
QAGOMA BlogSamantha Littley
28 March 2011
Srivilasa has created a reflective, shrine-like space for APT10 that houses five secular deities representing attributes important to him — love equality, spirituality, security, identity, and creativity — and asks visitors to join him in celebrating them. Through the work, Srivilasa venerates memories of his Thai homeland, acknowledges what his relocation to Australia has meant to him, and encourages viewers to appreciate both our differences and our commonalities.
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Video tour: Literally Split
OLSEN GalleryMarch 2022
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Video tour: Eliza Gosse 'Bumpy Roads and Tip Top Sandwiches'
OLSEN GalleryMarch 2022
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Video tour: Dani McKenzie 'Close to Home'
OLSEN GalleryFebruary 2022
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Video tour: Melissa Coote 'Sun'
OLSEN GalleryFebruary 2022
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OLSEN GalleryFebruary 2022
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OLSEN GalleryJanuary 2022
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José Luis Puche, a path drawn in pencil from Malaga to Sydney
Andalusian Stories2017
José Luis, born in Malaga, Andalusia, has shown his works in New York, Sydney and Dubai.
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Congratulations Tim Olsen
Waverley Council (Nib awards)24 November 2021
Congratulations to Tim Olsen winner of the 2021 Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize and Nib People's Choice Prize for his memoir Son of the Brush.
The Nib People's Choice Prize ($2,500) is awarded by popular vote. Congratulations to Tim Olsen, one of Australia's most recognised and respected art identities, successful gallery owner and now, prize winning author. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's greatest living artist, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, excitement and bitter disappointments.
The Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award presented by Waverley Council with support from Principal Sponsors Mark and Evette Moran, and community partners Gertrude & Alice Bookstore Cafe, celebrates excellence in research and writing in Australia.
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2021 NIB Literary Awards
24 November 2021The Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award is presented annually by Waverley Council with support from Principal Sponsors Mark and Evette Moran. Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2021, the Nib remains Australia's only major literary award of its kind presented by a local council. Judging criteria includes high literary merit, quality of research, readability and value to the community.
Waverley Council is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award ($20,000), Luke Stegemann, and Nib People’s Choice Prize ($2,500), Tim Olsen.
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Video tour: Sydney Contemporary 2021
OLSEN GalleryNovember 2021
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Video tour: Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen
OLSEN GalleryNovember 2021
Exhibited at the National Art School November 2021
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OLSEN GalleryNovember 2021
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Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen: A rare sensibility
a rich life (online)Kirsty Francis
19 November 2021
‘A rare sensibility’ is the first solo exhibition of Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen’s work. Curated by Tim and Louise Olsen, in loving memory of their mother a decade after her passing, this exhibition aims to give Valerie the recognition she deserves as one of Australia’s unsung, yet remarkable female artists.
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Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen
Artist Profile (online)Artist Profile
November 2021
The first survey exhibition of Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen's work hangs in the National Art School's Rayner Hoff Project Space. In it, we find an overdue opportunity to connect with an astute, devoted artist attuned to global modernist developments in painting, whose work is largely still owned and safeguarded by her children.
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‘Talent to burn’: At last a solo show for artist Valerie Strong Olsen
The Sydney Morning HeraldJohn McDonald
12 November 2021
More than 10 years after her death, the work of John Olsen’s ex-wife shows her talent as a painter.
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Video tour: George Byrne 'Innervisions'
OLSEN GalleryNovember 2021
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‘Mum wasn’t looking for fame’: John Olsen’s children unveil Valerie Strong’s first solo art show
Guardian.comElissa Blake
6 November 2021
Ten years after their mother’s death, Tim and Louise reveal the striking landscapes and portraits painted by the limelight-shy second wife of John Olsen.
Above: ‘She had no ego’: Australian artist Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen, who died in 2011, pictured here in the mid-1970s. Her children, Tim and Louise Olsen, are now staging her first solo exhibition. Photograph: Robert Raymond
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Video tour: Michelle Cawthorn
OLSEN GalleryNovember 2021
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