Ode: Margaret Olley and Sally Anderson is a celebration of important still life paintings by Margaret Olley together with new work by Gadigal/Sydney-based artist Sally Anderson.
During her 2025 residency at the Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio, Sally Anderson embarked on a new body of work that responds not only to Margaret Olley’s (1923–2011) remarkable still life paintings featured in Ode: Margaret Olley and Sally Anderson, but also to selected objects from the re-creation of Olley’s home studio. Interweaving deeply personal experiences and themes of domesticity, care, maternity, and mortality within her work, Anderson invites us to reconsider Olley’s still life paintings in a new light.
A Tweed Regional Gallery initiative. The Nancy Fairfax Artist in Residence Studio is supported by benefactor Mr Tim Fairfax AC via the Tweed Regional Gallery Foundation Ltd.
Want to find out more? Join the artist in conversation with curator and art historian Dr Lisa Slade, Hugh Ramsay Chair in Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne, Friday 19 September: https://brnw.ch/21wUA2R
