Margaret Olley's powerful legacy: 'Ben Quilty wouldn't exist without her'

A Brisbane exhibition highlights the artist’s complex relationship with power – while celebrating the irrepressible joy of her workStaff at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art pop into the Margaret Olley exhibition when they’re having a bad day; it cheers them up, they say.Olley, the matriarch of Australia’s art scene who died aged 88 in 2011, is best known for her colourful paintings of flowers and cluttered domestic spaces, with paint applied to the canvas in thick s