September 7, 2019
Heidi Yardley, Ben Quilty, Victoria Reichelt, Linde Ivimey and Fiona Lowry all currently have their work featured in the group exhibition ‘Love’, now open at Tweed Regional Gallery. Curated by Susie Muddiman, this exhibition explores love in its multiple forms. Love 6 September – 17 November Tweed Regional…
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August 3, 2019
Visitors to QAGOMA can this month experience the Quilty and Olley – A Genouous Life exhibitions after dark with the return of the Up Late program. Featuring events every Friday night during August, the Up Late program offers audiences an opportunity to attend live music, performances and talks in the heart…
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June 8, 2019
In the lead up to the opening of Quilty in Brisbane, Ben Quilty has been busy sketching large-scale drawings on the walls of GOMA in tribute to his friend and mentor – Margaret Olley. The artist has been using a series of vessels including jugs and teapots that have been…
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March 12, 2019
Ben Quilty’s survey show, Quilty, has launched at the Art Gallery of South Australia to great acclaim. Developed by the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by Lisa Slade, this exhibition is the first major survey on the artist’s work to date. Quilty will also tour to QAGOMA and…
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February 23, 2019
A major article on Ben Quilty is featured in the latest Good Weekend magazine in The Sydney Morning Herald. Journalist, Brook Turner, sheds light on the life, career and recent obstacles faced by the artist. It also offers a fascinating perspective of his current exhibition, The Accident, which opened recently…
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February 20, 2019
A major publication on Ben Quilty has been released by Penguin Random House Australia to coincide with a retrospective of his work at the Art Gallery of South Australia (then touring to QAGOMA and the Art Gallery of New South Wales). The publication, titled ‘Ben Quilty’, documents the artist’s career to…
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February 15, 2019
Several works by Robert Malherbe and Ben Quilty are included in the group exhibition, I Heart Paint, at Bega Valley Regional Gallery. Featuring six Australian artists, the exhibition focuses on a selection of important painters. Robert and Ben will each present solo exhibitions at Jan Murphy Gallery in 2019. I…
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November 7, 2018
Danie Mellor and Ben Quilty feature in major collaborative exhibition, Weapons for the soldier, at Hazelhurst Arts Centre. Conceptualised by the young men of the APY Lands in north-western South Australia (Vincent Namatjira, Aaron Ken, Derek Thompson, Anwar Young and Kamurin Young), Weapons for the soldier brings together both Indigenous…
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September 1, 2018
Developed by the Art Gallery of South Australia and curated by Co-Acting Director Lisa Slade, a major survey exhibition of the work of
Ben Quilty, Quilty, will be unveiled in
Adelaide from March 2019, before a year of touring to the state galleries in Queensland and New South Wales. A…
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August 17, 2018
Ben Quilty has released a new book titled Home: Drawings by Syrian Children. The publication features a collection of drawings by Syrian children reflecting on their forsaken homeland, with a foreword penned by Richard Flanagan. Home: Drawings by Syrian Children Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia, 2018 Soft cover, 304 pp, fully…
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May 19, 2018
Ben Quilty’s work features in a new display at the Bendigo Art Gallery. The new exhibition includes several new acquisitions to the Bendigo Art Gallery Collection as well as significant works on loan. Quilty’s work, Kuta Rorschach No. 2 2013, was acquired by the Bendigo Art Gallery Collection in 2014.
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May 18, 2018
Art of Music is a fundraiser event presented by musician Jenny Morris with proceeds going to the charity organisation, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. Held every two years, a group of Australia’s top artists come together to create an original exhibition where each artist chooses an iconic Australian/NZ song to inspire a…
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February 9, 2018
Ben Quilty features in group exhibition, All We Can’t See: Illustrating the Nauru Files, at Yellow House Sydney. Focused on the Nauru Files published by The Guardian in August 2016, which leaked incident reports by staff of Nauru’s detention centres occurring between 2013–15, the exhibition sees 30 of Australia’s leading…
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December 10, 2017
Ben Quilty features as one of more than 100 artists from 32 countries for the inaugural NGV Triennial, which surveys the world’s best art and design, across cultures, scales, geographies and perspectives. Quilty’s featured work will be High Tide Mark 2016, a recent acquisition for the NGV collection. The painting…
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October 13, 2017
Go Figure: Works from the collection presents a selection of works at the Tweed Regional Gallery that showcase dynamic representations of the human figure and features work by Natasha Bieniek, Guido Maestri, Ben Quilty, Monica Rohan and others. Go Figure: Works from the collection Tweed Regional Gallery…
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