Ben quilty biography

Ben Quilty was born in 1973 in Australia and grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney’s North West. Quilty was a reckless teenager with his weekends filled with hard drinking and risk taking behaviour.

It was this period of his life
that inspired most of his work today. After completing high school he went straight into the Sydney College of the Arts where he completed his double degree in fine arts and design.

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Even through the dark period of his life Quilty
continued to paint. Although he has said it seemed like more of a hobby at the time than anything substantial. After completing his degree Quilty was “getting nowhere fast as an artist” and was labouring during the day and working in a kitchen at night.

It was around this time that he completed a second degree in design and found himself a job in the Channel 7 news room. He also completed studies in Aboriginal History at Melbourne’s Monash University in 1996. 

It took him a while, but in