How do you conceive of the human cost of the largest refugee crisis since World War II? Though images of the overcrowded boats crossing the Mediterranean have made the news, and the diplomatic fallout ...

A solo show at the Saatchi means an artist has already entered orbit. Pelham Communications and Prudential Eye Awards Ben Quilty is the first Australian artist to hold a solo show at the Saatchi ...

Ben Quilty has always tried to make sense of the world through art. Even when there’s no sense to be made. “That’s why people have always made art,” he says. “It’s a way of coming to terms with who ...

Ben Quilty, Australia, born 1973. Margaret Olley 2011. Oil on linen / 170.0 x 150.0 cm. Collection of the artist. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Mim Stirling Margaret Olley’s exhibition at QAGOMA is ...

BPOV MEAO (Behind Point of View, Middle East Area of Operations), printed in Canberra, edition 1/1, 2009–10, digital colour photograph, inkjet on paper, 111.8 x 80.3 cm. Australian War Memorial Shaun ...

Ben Quilty’s “Margaret Olley” has divided the critics. Art Gallery of New South Wales: www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au This year’s Archibald prize has gone to Ben Quilty’s portrait of Australian artist ...

Artist Ben Quilty at last night’s I Stand For Mercy vigil for Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts The prospect of the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran has polarised ...

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 ...

Australian artist Ben Quilty is holding a candlelight vigil in Sydney tonight for his countrymen Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan. Members of the Bali Nine, they were arrested in Indonesia in 2005 for ...

Australian artist Ben Quilty takes a pointed look at race and gender in “Straight White Male,” an exhibit of new paintings at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong. In works inspired by a massacre of ...