Valerie Strong Olsen
A Rare Sensibility
Video tour: Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen
OLSEN GalleryNovember 2021
Exhibited at the National Art School November 2021
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‘Talent to burn’: At last a solo show for artist Valerie Strong Olsen
The Sydney Morning HeraldJohn McDonald
12 November 2021
More than 10 years after her death, the work of John Olsen’s ex-wife shows her talent as a painter.
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‘Mum wasn’t looking for fame’: John Olsen’s children unveil Valerie Strong’s first solo art show
Guardian.comElissa Blake
6 November 2021
Ten years after their mother’s death, Tim and Louise reveal the striking landscapes and portraits painted by the limelight-shy second wife of John Olsen.
Above: ‘She had no ego’: Australian artist Valerie Marshall Strong Olsen, who died in 2011, pictured here in the mid-1970s. Her children, Tim and Louise Olsen, are now staging her first solo exhibition. Photograph: Robert Raymond
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‘At last she is being heard’: Valerie Strong, matriarch of the Olsen family, has first solo exhibition
Sydney Morning HeraldLinda Morris
16 October 2021
Valerie Strong was a student at East Sydney Technical College when John Olsen was briefly a teacher. The man who is now one of Australia’s most famous living artists praised Strong’s marks on paper: “I should have done that. I wish I’d done that line.”
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