Artist Profile: Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen

Artist Profile: Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen

‘Mum wasn’t looking for fame’.

The first survey exhibition of Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen’s work hangs in the National Art School’s Rayner Hoff Project Space. In it, we find an overdue opportunity to connect with an astute, devoted artist attuned to global modernist developments in painting, whose work is largely still owned and safeguarded by her children.

Read the full article linked below. Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen: A rare sensibility, is on view at the Rayner Hoff Project Space until Sat 27 Nov.

Image: Valerie Strong, Hawkesbury I (detail) c. 1987, mixed media on paper, 36 x 39 cm. Collection of Tim and Louise Olsen

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