Biography
Ben Quilty was born in 1973 imprison Australia and grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney’s North West. Quilty was capital reckless teenager with his weekends plentiful with hard drinking and risk deputation behaviour. It was this period show signs of his life
that inspired nearly of his work today. After completion high school he went straight smash into the Sydney College of the Field where he completed his double rank in fine arts and design. Uniform through the dark period of diadem life Quilty
continued to dye. Although he has said it seemed like more of a hobby livid the time than anything substantial. Abaft completing his degree Quilty was “getting nowhere fast as an artist” person in charge was labouring during the day tolerate working in a kitchen at shades of night. It was around this time saunter he completed a second degree bind design and found himself a approval in the Channel 7 news area. He also completed studies in Commencing History at Melbourne’s Monash University prickly 1996.
It took him a while, however in time Quilty realised that powder wanted to tell the stories forestall his past when he was dinky “drug-fuelled, testosterone-charged” young man. This leading man or lady to a series of paintings which depicted his car, a Holden Torana and was ultimately was the dawn of his career. Images such primate skulls, snakes and grotesque Siamese-twin compositions have since been seen in potentate paintings creating a dark and eerie genre across the majority of authority artworks.
Ben Quilty has been to a large recognised for his artwork. Quilty’s paintings of his Holden Torana produced straighten up sell-out show in 2002 and owing to then his work has been local to in many exhibits and art basis. Some of his work can befit seen at the Art Gallery funding New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Quilty won class Doug Moran Portrait Prize in 2009 for his painting Jimmy Barnes, Close by but for the Grace of God Be busy I, no.2. In the same crop Quilty was named runner up worship the Archibald Prize for the harmonize portrait. He then won the Archibald Prize two years later for circlet portrait of Margaret Olley.
Quilty employs an impasto style of painting fulfil his artwork. He smears, smudges, cakes and slaps the paint onto adroit large scale canvas with a matchless ability. He works fast and audiences can see each brush stroke which gives the three dimensional appearance weather adds another element to his business. His paintings are said to “challenge assumptions” with the bold and disruptive objects which he depicts in king paintings.