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Fierce Girls

Margaret Olley — the girl who painted masterpieces

Fierce Girls

ABC Australia

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4.5956 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Olley was a bit of a rebel who was often in trouble at school. But she loved to paint and found beauty in the everyday things around her. Margaret became one of Australia’s most loved artists and her paintings are famous around the world.

Narrated by actor and producer Deborra-lee Furness.

Transcript

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This is the story of the girl who painted master.

0:04.0

This is the story of the girl.

0:10.0

This is the story of the girl who painted masterpieces, Margaret Ollie, read by actor and producer Deborah Lee Furness.

0:20.0

Margaret, hurry up, we're busting.

0:25.0

Margaret Ollie was on the toilet.

0:27.0

She'd been in there forever, but she wasn't busy with business.

0:30.0

She was simply staring out the window. It was a loo with a view.

0:35.3

Margaret, come on!

0:39.3

The Oley family bathroom looked out across a flower-filled garden and Margaret sat mesmerized by the fluffy red

0:45.7

bottle blushed blooms and the blue butterflies fluttering by outside.

0:51.2

It was difficult to get Margaret's attention when she was admiring beautiful things.

0:55.0

She was different to most kids. She noticed more.

0:58.0

Every color, every way of light, every shadow, I have greedy eyes, she'd say, capturing all the details and

1:06.9

storing them in her head like photographs. Margaret, enough is enough.

1:13.5

Margaret sighed and opened the door.

1:15.0

She didn't like being told what to do.

1:17.2

So when her parents sent her off to boarding school,

1:19.4

it was no surprise that she didn't exactly

1:21.9

get along with some of the teachers.

1:23.0

The grumpy housemistress tried to impress the girls by carrying a parrot on her shoulder.

1:28.0

Bonsieur parrot, she said.

1:31.0

That means hello parrot in French and the parrot replied bonsieur

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