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Sydney Morning Herald
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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Video tour: Kunmanara (Wawiriya) Burton

OLSEN Gallery
October 2021

Video tour of the Kunmanara (Wawiriya) Burton exhibition at OLSEN Gallery, October 2021

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Video Tour: Paul Davies 'Belvedere Loop'

OLSEN Gallery
September 2021

View the extended video including the exhibition essay here

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Paul Davies Belvedere Loop
Catalogue Essay
Benjamin Clay
26/08/2021

In his forthcoming exhibition, Paul Davies will present a series of new paintings alongside a suite of unique photographic drawings. Entitled ‘Belvedere Loop’, the body of work announces the artist’s recent fixations and long-awaited return to Sydney. The major Olsen Gallery exhibition will run 15 September—02 October.

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Video Tour: Jacqui Stockdale My Funny Valentine OLSEN

OLSEN Gallery
August 2021

Click here for the video accompanied by the artist, Jacqui Stockdale, singing 'My Funny Valentine'

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Video Tour: Jacqui Stockdale My Funny Valentine OLSEN NY

OLSEN Gallery NYC
August 2021

Click here for the video accompanied by the artist, Jacqui Stockdale, singing 'My Funny Valentine'

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Australian filmmaker and visual artist Tim Georgeson has created a new performance film responding to William Barton and Veronique Serret's Kalkani.

July 2021

Filmed across Lake Bumbunga, a salt lake located in South Australia, Urritjara, starring actor and performer Derik Lynch, is a gripping portrait of the synergy between sound, earth and movement directed by Tim Georgesen. Urritjara is the term for ‘movement’ in Yankunytjatjara language — the language native to Lynch’s father’s family.

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John Olsen's 90th Birthday

OLSEN Gallery
2018

Dinner held 21 January 2018 to celebrate John Olsen's 90th Birthday at OLSEN Gallery, Woollahra

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The Weekend Australian
Bronwyn Watson
5-6 November 2022

Jacqui Stockdale, Rama-Jaara, The Royal Shpherdess, 2012, Collection Benalla Art Gallery. Purchased with funds from the Robert Salzer Foundation and the Benalla Art Gallery Acquisition Trust Fund, 2015.

In 2009 during the Black Saturday bushfires, Jacqui Stockdale's fmaily lost their property, Long Gully, on the outskirts of Benidgo in central Victoria. Three years after those devastating bushfires, Stockdale decided to make work referring to her personal loss. 'We has lost our family home,' she said, 'and I needed to create a victorious, rising-from-the-ashes, hybrid Australian feminine archetype.'

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