{"id":151,"date":"2005-10-02T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2015-08-23T20:35:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T09:35:58","slug":"margaret-olley-maxine-mckew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/10\/02\/margaret-olley-maxine-mckew\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Olley & Maxine McKew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maxine McKew (7.30 Report<\/a>) did a lovely interview<\/a> the other night with artist Margaret Olley. Part of the charm was non-verbal, the smiling eyes, expressions, gestures, the unsaid knowingness, on each side. But this was my favourite part of the verbal :<\/p>\n

MAXINE McKEW: You’ve said you paint for yourself. Is that right?<\/p>\n

MARGARET OLLEY: I do. Who would you paint for?<\/p>\n

MAXINE McKEW: So you don’t have a particular market in mind or?<\/p>\n

MARGARET
\nOLLEY: Oh, perish the thought! No, the only reason you have an
\nexhibition…is really, that moment when they say “it’s up”.<\/p>\n

MAXINE McKEW: The book also documents…some dark moments and one of them of course is your battle with alcoholism.<\/p>\n

MARGARET OLLEY: Oh, yes. Whatever I do, I do it to excess. (Laughs). Whatever I do, I do it to excess.<\/p>\n

(via Articulate<\/del>)<\/p>\n

I’m fond of Maxine McKew. She is an astute political interviewer, a feminist, and an excellent presenter, and then occasionally you also get to see her conduct a more relaxed personal interview like this. Another I particularly remember was a conversation with Yasmine Gooneratne<\/a>, an English literature academic, about the rash of Jane Austen adaptations. It was obvious from twinkling eyes that McKew appreciated Andrew Davies’ 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the Gooneratne family run Pemberley House<\/a>, an International Study Centre in Sri Lanka, which I think is essentially a retreat. I’ve always thought it would be fun to visit there. Thinking about the attraction now, I’m wondering if there is something about the look of it – perhaps a similarity with Natal? – that triggers some memory from my South African childhood. I only lived there until I was 7, and don’t think of myself as rememering much about it, but I was listening to J. M. Coetzee reading his South African book Boyhood on First Person<\/del> recently, and was astounded at how evocative it was for me. I instinctively understood words that I had not heard since I was little, and could see again scenes that I had forgotten I knew.<\/p>\n

Updated links 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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