Ben quilty margaret olley paintings
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Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Margaret Olley finds its way home to the Tweed
Six months ago, Ben Quilty tried to hang his Archibald Prize-winning portrait of Margaret Olley on his kitchen wall, but it was making for some awkward conversations.
"I wanted it back, just to feel her back in our house," the painter said.
"But every time people walked in it was very awkward having to talk about the painting again.
"It felt very egotistical."
The portrait won Australia's most famous art prize in 2011 and was on long-term loan to the Art Gallery of New South Wales until Quilty had the idea to bring it to his house in the Southern Highlands, south of Sydney.
"Friends suggested I should sell it," he said.
"It needs to be on a wall, you know.
People want to see it."
Now the famous artwork is destined to return to the area where Margaret Olley spent her formative years, in the lush Tweed Valley in northern New South Wales.