Far From a Still Life

Margaret Olley: A Life in Full Bloom

With new chapters taking in the last few years of Margaret Olley’s life, her state funeral and the enormous legacy she has left behind.

‘A great painter, a great woman, a great story’ Barry Humphries

Margaret Olley is arguably Australia’s most loved artist. She was also one of the country’s most generous benefactors to public art galleries.

This intimate biography begins in the 1920s in the green, tropical wet of Tully, No…