09/09/2026
We are excited to welcome back to the Gallery Alison Kubler - Curator and Editor in Chief, VAULT magazine who will Chair Panel Discussion with guest speakers David Greenhalgh - Curator International Art, National Gallery of Australia; Sally Watterson - the Museologist who managed the re-creation of Margaret Olley’s home studio (2012-14); and Emily Gray - Curator Margaret Olley Art Centre & Collections Manager.
Our panel will explore Italian painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi’s influence on the still life tradition and why renowned interior and still life painter Margaret Olley so admired his work. They will consider both artists’ practices, and living and working environments, and you will hear how thousands of objects from Olley’s Sydney home studio were packed, transported and re-created at the Gallery in 2014!
Hosted by the Friends of the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre Inc
📅 Friday 18 September
🕰️ 4:30 – 6:30 pm (NSW time)
Doors open at 4.10 pm
🎫Friends Member $35 | General $40 (+ booking fee)
Booking essential. https://brnw.ch/21x5xT7
Your ticket includes:
🔸Panel Discussion in MOAC
🔸1 x sparkling w**e (or non-alcoholic option)
🔸Grazing table by Platters by the Sea
🔸Exclusive opportunity to purchase postcards from Olley’s private collection, gifted to the Friends of the Gallery by the Margaret Olley Estate
🔸 Viewing of images documenting the installation of the re-creation of Olley's home studio
This event celebrates the exhibition Margaret Olley: Shapes of Stillness at the Margaret Olley Art Centre. Showcasing important artworks on loan from private and public collections across Australia, the exhibition also features a suite of works on long term loan from the National Gallery of Australia with support from the Australian Government as part of Sharing the National Collection.
📷Alison Kubler, Margaret Olley (1923-2011) White still life II (detail) 1977, oil on board 60 x 74.5cm. Private collection. Courtesy Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane.