Tweed Regional Gallery

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Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre
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Tweed Regional Gallery
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Coordinates 28°20′55″S153°24′00″E / 28.348555°S 153.399968°E / -28.348555; 153.399968

Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre is a regional art gallery in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia. [1] [2] Lonely Planet Australia describes it as "an exceptional gallery... home to some of Australia's finest in a variety of media." [3]

In June 2009 the gallery featured in an episode of the ABC television program, Collectors. [4]

On 15 March 2014 the gallery opened a new Margaret Olley Art Centre, which cost $4 million to construct. [2] Funding included $1 million from the federal government's Community Infrastructure Grants Program. [5] The new Centre houses the 76,000 objects from the studio of artist Margaret Olley, who died in 2011 aged 88. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Lucy Ardern (4 March 2014). "The Margaret Olley Art Centre at the Tweed Regional Gallery to officially open next Sunday". Gold Coast Bulletin . Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 Andrew Taylor (8 March 2014). "Margaret Olley's home on display at Tweed Regional Gallery". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  3. "Murwillumbah", Australia, Lonely Planet, 2011, ISBN   978-1742204239
  4. Kristy Martin (24 June 2009). "Art gallery exhibition on ABC TV". Tweed Daily News . Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  5. "The first sod is turned at Margaret Olley Art Centre". Tweed Daily News. 12 April 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2014.