Valerie Strong Olsen
A Rare Sensibility
Video tour: Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen
OLSEN GalleryNovember 2021
Exhibited at the National Art School November 2021
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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
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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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‘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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Linda Morris
16 October 2021
Valerie Strong was a student at East Sydney Technical College when John Olsen was briefly a teacher. The man who is now one of Australia’s most famous living artists praised Strong’s marks on paper: “I should have done that. I wish I’d done that line.”
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