The surprising secret in Margaret Olley’s memorial garden

The beloved Australian artist has been given a final resting place among the flowers planted in her memory at the Tweed Gallery.

From the memorial garden, visitors can enjoy the vistas Margaret Olley herself once loved. Plummer & Smith

Steve Meacham

Jun 16, 2021 – 10.02am

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It is 10 years since Margaret Olley, one of Australia’s most-loved artists, died, bequeathing an initial $1 million to one of her favourite regional galleries – in Murwillumbah, at the heart of the Tweed Valley hinterland near Lismore in northern NSW, where she was born in 1923.

A decade later, the renamed Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre has never attracted more visitors than over the past year since COVID-19 forced Australians to discover the glories in our own backyard.