Creative Paddington
- Publisher:
- NewSouth Publishing
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- Paddington: A History, 2019, pp. 228 - 255
- Issue Date:
- 2019-02-01
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Margaret Olley, one of Australia’s favourite artists, died in July 2011. She had become synonymous with the suburb of Paddington. As if to celebrate her art and personal energy, her estate left the downstairs lights of her home blazing, revealing the bright walls as well as her own artworks, including rooms she made famous by including them as subjects. Olley loved the suburb of Paddington. She could paint, garden and, entertain there from her large corner terrace in Duxford Street. She liked the art crowd as well as the young people working in shops and the working-class people who still lived there. She recalled that, as ar students at the old Darlinghurst Gaol in the early 1940s, ‘Paddington beckoned … we knew there was something across beyond the Cutler Footway, but initially we dared not go there’.1 Within a generation Paddington was teeming with artists and galleries But the suburb had changed by the time of her death. With Olley’s passing, had Paddington’s place as the arts hub also passed away?
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