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.