Category: Foundation

Ben Quilty’s view of Australia at war is a deeply human one

Posted by Chris Saines, CNZM   ●   20 Jun 2014

Every year, the QAGOMA Foundation Appeal seeks to add to the Gallery’s Collection a work that makes a compelling artistic proposition – one that somehow feels essential to us and might make others feel the same, in 2014, we are presenting a work by a leading contemporary Australian artist, Ben Quilty who is not yet…

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An unspoken story: Ben Quilty’s ‘Sergeant P, after Afghanistan’

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   23 May 2014

This extraordinary portrait, Sergeant P, after Afghanistan 2012 by Ben Quilty, one of Australia’s acclaimed contemporary artists, tells an often unspoken story of modern military conflict. In 2011, Archibald Prize-winning artist Quilty reached a serious turning-point in his career when he was offered a commission by the Australian War Memorial to fill the role of official…

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