--Container.http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1050530> ;http:\/\/id.worldcat.org\/fast\/1050988> ;1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 54 min.) The relationship between these two greats from the Australian Art World is exemplified in the wonderful photo taken on the night of the award being received. "Margaret Olley - A Life in Paint is an intimate documentary about one of Australia's greatest painters.

This year’s Archibald prize has gone to Ben Quilty’s portrait of Australian artist Margaret Olley. Apparently the striking colours of his palette were influenced by her home which is also her studio. Emeritus Curator Barry Pearce takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey through Margaret's beloved house in Paddington, the Hat Factory. He said he was inspired to paint the portrait because Olley was one of society's elders with vigorous opinions. Ben Quilty's portrait of his friend, the highly esteemed painter Margaret Olley has won the Archibald Prize worth AUS$50,000. "I felt the paintings were becoming translucent almost like her skin - there were just layers that were coming through and they became more and more beautiful towards the end." This documentary puts Margaret Olley the painter on centre stage. In 2011 Ben Quilty won Australia’s most prestigious prize for portraiture, The Archibald, with his painting of Margaret Olley.. Ben Quilty's Archibald Prize, 2011 of artist Margaret Olley (1).

Ben Quilty (born 1973 in Sydney) is an Australian artist and social commentator, who has won a series of painting prizes: the 2014 Prudential Eye Award, 2011 Archibald Prize and 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.He has been described as one of Australia's most famous living artists. Quilty employs an impasto style of painting in his artwork. --Ben Quilty, artist. Why did Ben Quilty paint Margaret Olley - Answers the reason margret olley was because margaret olley was once a judge that chose ben to win at the travelling art scholarship. Please enter recipient e-mail address(es).The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. In April 2011 artist Ben Quilty won the 2011 Archibald Prize with his enigmatic portrait of Margaret. This documentary puts Margaret Olley the painter on centre stage.
He then won the Archibald Prize two years later for his portrait of Margaret Olley. --Ben Quilty, artist. Olley continued to paint and exhibit into the early 2000s. Margaret Olley was one of the great subjects of Australian art. Margaret Olley speaks passionately about her compulsion to paint. I think it's an absolutely stunning portrait and a well deserved winner. A well-known figure from the time she was painted by William Dobell in 1948, Olley's celebrity status tended to overshadow her life as a painter. Olley told reporters she had turned down Quilty's request to sit for him for years. This documentary puts Margaret Olley the painter on centre stage. --Container.http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1790957209#Topic\/women_painters_australia> ;http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1790957209#Place\/australia>Image provided by: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAMYour Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript. Many believe her last works, those painted in the 18 months leading up to her death on 26 July 2011, were amongst her finest works. As well as Dobell (her first Archibald as a subject) and Ben Quilty (her last) she was painted by Russell Drysdale and Donald Friend.

Quilty's large-scale portrait depicts Olley in a hat, and with a characteristic raised eyebrow. \"I felt the paintings were becoming translucent almost like her skin - there were just layers that were coming through and they became more and more beautiful towards the end.\"--Ben Quilty, artist. Margaret Olley speaks passionately about her compulsion to paint. "Margaret Olley - A Life in Paint is an intimate documentary about one of Australia's greatest painters. [Australia] : Catherine Hunter Productions, ©2012.http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/vocabulary\/countries\/at> ;http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/816216337> ;http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1790957209#Person\/febbo_paolo>\"Margaret Olley - A Life in Paint is an intimate documentary about one of Australia\'s greatest painters.
"I felt the paintings were becoming translucent almost like her skin - there were just layers that were coming through and they became more and more beautiful towards the end." Ben Quilty was born in 1973 in Australia and grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney’s North West. RELATED: Margaret Olley. I F BEN QUILTY, one of Australia’s most famous painters, had followed the advice he was given as a teenager, he might have ended up as an accountant.On a sweltering day in … Emeritus Curator Barry Pearce takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey through Margaret's beloved house in Paddington, the Hat Factory. For her service as an artist and to the promotion of art, she was awarded the Order of Australia in 1991 and made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1996. Another portrait of her, by Ben Quilty, won the Archibald Prize in 2011. Margaret Olley judged Ben Quilty in the travelling art scholarship and chose Ben to win. When Ben Quilty first asked legendary painter Margaret Olley to sit for him she said no.