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 ...

Pick up a pencil and a sketchbook — and draw. That’s the message of a short, online art tutorial he has made with his daughter, Livvy, 11, for the Art Gallery of NSW. Quilty, who lives in the southern ...

The pleasure came from seeing the best of his paintings from the past two decades brought ­together in multiple rooms at the gallery, where the pungent smell of still-wet oil paint permeated the air.

Speechless after beating 500 other nominated artists from across Asia, he collected $US50,000 and an invitation to be the subject of a prestigious solo exhibition at ...

Lilac is the reason Quilty, as a student at Sydney College of the Arts, went in search of the exact location on the Hawkesbury from which Arthur Streeton had painted The Purple Noon’s Transparent ...

Given Quilty’s bond with the soldiers, last year the Australian War Memorial decided to follow on from his Afghanistan commission by asking him to depict the experience of war on those who are often ...

These and more than 60 paintings will feature in a survey exhibition — Quilty, who turns 45 tomorrow, says he is not yet ready for a career-long retrospective — that will open at the Art Gallery of ...

Margaret Olley was known not only for her paintings, but her generosity. An exhibition of her work is currently on in Brisbane, alongside a survey of the work of Ben Quilty, her mentee and friend.

Margaret Olley was known not only for her paintings, but her generosity. An exhibition of her work is currently on in Brisbane, alongside a survey of the work of Ben Quilty, her mentee and friend.

Quilty told a high-powered arts and tax reform forum on Thursday he spent all his prize money when he travelled to Paris for a six-month residency in 2002 after winning the coveted $30,000 Brett ...