The Margaret Olley Art Centre contains over 20,000 individual items transferred from the artist's original home studio.
The gallery building is designed to maximize views of Wollumbin (Mount Warning), a significant site for the local Bundjalung people.
The re-creation of the studio includes the original windows, doors, and walls salvaged from Olley's Paddington terrace house.
The gallery serves as a collecting institution for the Tweed Shire, focusing on regional history and contemporary Australian art.
The Tweed Regional Gallery is renowned for housing the Margaret Olley Art Centre, which features a permanent re-creation of the artist's famous home studio. The gallery complex is situated on a ridge overlooking the Tweed River valley and Mount Warning. It hosts a rotating program of modern and historic exhibitions across six gallery spaces. The Margaret Olley collection includes thousands of items from her Paddington home, relocated and meticulously reconstructed on-site. Visitors can view the artist's original yellow room and domestic collections exactly as she arranged them. The facility includes a dedicated research library and a café with outdoor dining deck access. Its architecture is designed to integrate with the surrounding Northern Rivers landscape through large windows and natural materials.
The outdoor terrace area offering a sweeping, unobstructed vista of the Tweed valley and Mount Warning.
Visit the viewing deck for panoramic shots of the Tweed caldera landscape.
Check the online schedule for artist talks and guided tours, which occur periodically throughout the year.
Allow time to walk through the Margaret Olley exhibition slowly to appreciate the density of the reconstructed studio objects.
Attempting to rush the studio recreation; it is the most detailed part of the gallery and requires time to process.
Closed on Mondays.
Maintain a quiet volume; do not touch the art installations or the reconstructed studio objects.
