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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Join us this weekend for The Material Image, the 8th International Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, where we’ll explore the diverse materiality of images at the intersections of art, science, and culture. This event will examine how contemporary image-making practices are reshaping our understanding and interpretation of images, challenging traditional notions of ‘materiality.’  —  Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd November, 9.15am - 5.30pm, NAS Cell Block Theatre  —  Learn more and register at the link in bio. Special rates apply for NAS faculty and students.
Best of luck to all the HSC students sitting their Visual Arts (Art Criticism and Art History) exam today!
Introducing the graduating Painting MFA students and their selected work.
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Celebrate the future of contemporary art at The Postgrad Show Opening Night, Thursday 7 November, 6–10pm.
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