Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre is a regional art gallery in
Murwillumbah
Murwillumbah ( ) is a town in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire, on the Tweed River. Sitting on the south eastern foothills of the McPherson Range in the Tweed Volcano valley, Murwillumbah is 848 km north-e ...
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, Australia.
''Lonely Planet Australia'' describes it as "an exceptional gallery... home to some of Australia's finest in a variety of media."
In June 2009 the gallery featured in an episode of the
ABC
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television program, ''Collectors''.
On 15 March 2014 the gallery opened a new
Margaret Olley
Margaret Hannah Olley (24 June 192326 July 2011) was an Australian painter. She was the subject of more than ninety solo exhibitions.
Early life
Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She was the eldest of three children of J ...
Art Centre, which cost $4 million to construct.
Funding included $1 million from the federal government's Community Infrastructure Grants Program.
The new Centre houses the 76,000 objects from the studio of artist Margaret Olley, who died in 2011 aged 88.
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Art museums and galleries in New South Wales
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