After winning a top art prize, the last place Ben Quilty expected to wind up was the middle of the desert. But that is what the Australian War Memorial had in mind when they invited him to become an ...

University of Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Ben Quilty is the first Australian artist to hold a solo show at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Opening last Friday and ...

ARTIST Ben Quilty has told of his emotional farewell to Myuran Sukumaran and his friend’s surprise at how Australians have rallied in support. Quilty had spent the day in the prison’s art studio with ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bali nine: Ben Quilty pays tribute to Myuran Sukumaran in speech at Sydney funeral A day with Myuran Sukumaran, a remarkable artist who ...

There was a time when Ben Quilty seemed to be everywhere. Campaigning to save the life of his Bali Nine friend Myuran Sukumaran. On television loudly decrying the treatment of refugees. Railing ...

The four New South Wales finalists for Australian of the Year have been announced. Social change innovator Elizabeth Broderick, humanitarian Patricia Garcia, heart surgeon Ian Nicholson, and artist ...

BEN Quilty abandoned portraiture in an attempt to do justice to his witness of refugees of the Bekaa Valley, Lesbos and Serbia. He went to Afghanistan first as an official Australian war artist in ...

One question Bordertown's Walkway Gallery manager Naomi Fallon has been asked multiple times in the last few weeks is "how did you get Ben Quilty?" The small regional art gallery in South Australia's ...

IF BEN QUILTY, one of Australia’s most famous painters, had followed the advice he was given as a teenager, he might have ended up as an accountant. On a sweltering day in Adelaide at the Art Gallery ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ben Quilty has always tried to make sense of the world through art. Even when there’s no sense to be made. “That’s why people have ...

Australian artist Ben Quilty has painted a series of portraits of women affected by the loss or injury of a loved one in the Afghanistan War. The paintings were commissioned by the Australian War ...