News : Ben Quilty

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 and non-Indigenous Australian artists in […]

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 fully illustrated book, published by […]

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 illustrated, colour 26.5 x 24.5 cm […]

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. The painting depicts the popular […]

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 piece of artwork. The artwork […]

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 contemporary artists illustrate the files […]

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 depicts a single life vest, […]

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 13 October 2017 – 21 October 2018 For more […]

In January 2016, Ben Quilty and acclaimed Australian author, Richard Flanagan, travelled to Lebanon, Greece and Serbia as guests of World Vision. On this journey, they followed “the river that is the great exodus of our age: that of Syrian refugees.” The consequent publication, Notes on an Exodus, bears witness to the remarkable people they […]

The work of Australian contemporary artists will be exhibited alongside what is known as ‘trench art’ in an exhibition titled, Sappers & Shrapnel at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The term ‘trench art’ describes objects made from the waste of warfare by solidiers, civilians and prisoners of war. Featuring trench art from the collection […]