Ben Quilty

Ben Quilty
Born	Ben Quilty 1973 Sydney, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Known for	Painting, contemporary art
Awards	2014 Prudential Eye Award 2011 Archibald Prize 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Website	Ben Quilty

Ben Quilty (born 1973 in Sydney) is an Australian artist and social commentator, who won the 2014 Prudential Eye Award, 2011 Archibald Prize and 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize.

Quilty grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney's north-west. Quilty lives and works in Robertson, New South Wales. He was educated at Kenthurst Public School and Oakhill College, where he exhibited his HSC artwork in ArtExpress 1991. Subsequently, Quilty was selected as the recipient of the Julian Ashton Summer School Scholarship, despite failing Year 12 Art. When he was in Year 11, Quilty was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. After high school, Quilty followed his interest in art and obtained a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Painting from Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1994.

He then studied visual communication, design and women's studies at Western Sydney University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Design) in 2002. He also obtained a Certificate in Aboriginal Culture and History from Monash University in 1996.

A multiple finalist, Quilty won the Archibald Prize in 2011 for his portrait of Australian artist Margaret Olley. It 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.

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