John Olsen
Video tour: John Olsen Drawn from Life
OLSEN GalleryJuly 2022 _view online (external link)
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John Olsen's 90th Birthday
OLSEN Gallery2018
Dinner held 21 January 2018 to celebrate John Olsen's 90th Birthday at OLSEN Gallery, Woollahra
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Video tour of the exhibition John Olsen Amphibia: The Anisimoff Collection
OLSEN GalleryJune 2021 _view online (external link)
Related exhibition: John Olsen Amphibia: The Anisimoff Collection
King-of-bright John Olsen reveals his dark and melancholy side
Sydney Morning HeraldJohn McDonald
19 June 2021
Review of John Olsen: Goya's Dog exhibition at the National Art School.
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Related exhibition: John Olsen Goya's Dog
Olsen's Shining Moment
Australian Financial ReviewGabriella Coslovich
5–6 June 2021
Works not seen in public for decades will be on show at a major exhibition by the 93-year-old artist - Goya's Dog at the National Art School, Darlinghurst until 7 August 2021.
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Related exhibition: John Olsen Goya's Dog
"Hello my lovelies": Artist John Olsen greets his past at the Art Gallery of NSW Retrospective
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
10 March 2017
"Hello, my lovelies, you are still here," the artist John Olsen exclaims as if approaching old friends. On the wall of the Art Gallery of NSW are a series of oils painted in the early 1960s from which the new retrospective, John Olsen: the you beaut country, borrows its laconic title.
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How art helped John Olsen through heartbreak
The Daily TelegraphElizabeth Fortescue
9 March 2017
ARTISTS often talk about their studios as locations of solitude and retreat. But John Olsen's beautiful Southern Highlands workspace took on an even deeper dimension late last year.
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Artist John Olsen celebrates 89th birthday at Newcastle Art Gallery
Newcastle HeraldSam Rigney
22 January 2017
ABOUT a year ago, iconic Australian artist John Olsen agreed to create an iconic painting that would capture the essence of his birthplace.
It was a deeply personal work, a reflection on his beginnings.
Unfortunately, illness meant he couldn’t be there when the exhibition opened in November last year.
But on Saturday at Newcastle Art Gallery – just a short distance from his childhood home – Olsen got to share a piece of that work, a slice of the Hunter, with hundreds of other art lovers.
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John Olsen retrospective: Brimming with life and love
The Sydney Morning HeraldHannah Francis
14 September 2016
If painting is dead, as some art critics say, nobody told John Olsen. "I'd like to know the time of death," he says with the brightest of glints in his eye. "I'm alive. So painting isn't dead."
At 88 years old and widely considered Australia's greatest living painter, Olsen is about to launch his largest ever retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria.
John Olsen: at home with the Australian artist
The Sydney Morning HeraldAmanda Hooton
3 September 2016
Over lunch at his home in the NSW southern highlands, John Olsen shares with Amanda Hooton a lifetime of insights into landscape, poetry and painting.
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Celebrate Australia Day with Olsen's epic landscape
Sydney Morning HeraldJanet Hawley
23 January 2016
"I'm not old, I'm just aged," Olsen says, beaming, as the sun glints on the lake which laps his studio and sprawling house in the NSW Southern Highlands.
"One great value in being aged is that it allows retrospective thinking. I can now look back at the changes in my lifetime through a mental telescope....
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