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Sunday: Olley - A life in paint
Title:
Sunday: Olley - A life in paint
NFSA ID
714297
Year
2006
Courtesy
Nine Network
A profile of the Australian artist Margaret Olley AC (1923–2011) introduced by journalist Jana Wendt on the occasion of her 83rd birthday in 2006. Catherine Hunter produced the segment.
One speaker at the opening of her exhibition at the Lismore Regional Gallery refers to Olley's 'remarkable life of inspired persistence'.
Other interview subjects in this piece include Olley herself, Edmund Capon AM OBE (1940–2019), Olley's biographer Meg Stewart and Clive James AO CBE (1939–2019).
This excerpt from Sunday was broadcast on 16 July 2006. The program ran from 1981 to 2008 on the Nine Network.
Notes by Beth Taylor
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