Full Name Ben Quilty Role Artist Name Ben Quilty | Website Ben Quilty Nationality Australian | |
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Born 1973 Sydney, Australia Artwork Captain S after Afghanistan, The Evo Project No. 1 | ||
Kit messham muir interview with ben quilty artist robertson australia 26 january 2013
Ben Quilty (born 1973 in Sydney) is an Australian artist and social commentator, who won the 2014 Prudential Eye Award, 2011 Archibald Prize and 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.
Contents
- Kit messham muir interview with ben quilty artist robertson australia 26 january 2013
- Ben Quilty on New Masculinities in Contemporary Art 26 January 2013
- Early life and education
- Awards and prizes
- Official war artist
- Honours and awards
- References
Ben Quilty on New Masculinities in Contemporary Art, 26 January 2013
Early life and education
Quilty grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney's north-west. Quilty lives and works in Robertson, New South Wales. He was educated at Kenthurst Public School and Oakhill College, where he exhibited his HSC artwork in ArtExpress 1991. Subsequently, Quilty was selected as the recipient of the Julian Ashton Summer School Scholarship, despite failing Year 12 Art. When he was in Year 11, Quilty was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. After high school, Quilty followed his interest in art and obtained a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Painting from Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1994.
He then studied visual communication, design and women's studies at Western Sydney University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Design) in 2002. He also obtained a Certificate in Aboriginal Culture and History.
Awards and prizes
A multiple finalist, Quilty won the Archibald Prize in 2011 for his portrait of Australian artist Margaret Olley. It was his seventh entry to the prize.
In 2009, he won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Australia's most lucrative portrait prize, for a painting of Australian musician Jimmy Barnes. His painting Dead (Over the Hills and Far Away) won the National Artists Self Portrait prize in 2007.
Quilty was awarded a Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2002.
Official war artist
From 11 October until 3 November 2011, Quilty was attached to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) observing their activities in Kabul, Kandahar and Tarin Kowt. His task was to record and interpret the experiences of Australian service personnel who are deployed as part of Operation Slipper. After his return, Quilty spent six months producing work for the Australian War Memorial's National Collection. Such work is in the tradition of war artists that began in World War I with artists Arthur Streeton, George Lambert and Frederick McCubbin. Quilty's experiences as a war artist and the work he produced as a result of it was explored in the ABC TV's Australian Story program "War Paint" screened on 3 September 2012.