Background
Quilty grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney"s north-west.
Dad, 2012. Oil and linen
Ben Quilty displays some of his works.
The painting of the rock star, for which Ben Quilty got Australian Portrait Prize.
The painting-winner of the Archibald Prize in 2011
Ben Quilty's self portrait after battle's bucks, 2012
Baby rRorschach, 2012 Oil and linen
Quilty grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney"s north-west.
He graduated from Oakhill College. Quilty also graduated from the University of Western Sydney with a bachelor"s degree in Visual Communication.
He lives and works in Robertson, New South Wales. He is a graduate of the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney. Official war artist.
A multiple finalist, Quilty won the Archibald Prize in 2011 for his portrait of Australian artist Margaret Olley. lieutenant 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. 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 American Broadcasting Company television"s Australian Story program "War Paint" screened on 3 September 2012.
