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Malcolm Turnbull(Wentworth, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
Margaret Olley's life spanned a great arc of Australia's art history and indeed the history of my city and her city, Sydney—and indeed the eastern suburbs of Sydney, where she lived for much of her life, in Paddington. That is where she lived right at the end of her life and where she did much of her greatest work. Hers was an extraordinary life and a very fortunate one in many ways. Margaret had great challenges—she suffered from depression for a period but overcame that, and certainly in the last 10 years of her life, when I saw her from time to time in the eastern suburbs, she was always full of life and energy. The thing that stands out most in my recollection of Margaret Olley—an indelible recollection, really—is her extraordinary feistiness, even though she was so old. And she looked very old too, as the portrait by Ben Quilty in the Archibald only this year demonstrated. She was an old lady—88 years of age. She had not attempted to look like anything else, but she projected energy and life. She not only did this with very emphatic and often rather startling bouts of political incorrectness and fran
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Ben Quilty is like any other human being: complex, flawed, obvious, messy, courageous, funny. As one of Australia’s best-known and internationally acclaimed artists, his public profile as an “artist activist” can invite intense public scrutiny. He gets fairly and unfairly described as all kinds of things, yet his modus operandi is humanity and compassion.
In 2002, Ben won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, and was a finalist in the Wynne and Archibald prizes. His success continued: he won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in 2009 with a portrait of Jimmy Barnes, and in 2011 he won the coveted Archibald Prize with a portrait of artist and mentor, Margaret Olley. From thereon, his position in the limelight foregrounded his passion for social justice. He has travelled to Afghanistan as Australia’s official war artist, generating a suite of humane and vulnerable portraits of Australian personnel. He provided high-profile support to his friend Myuran Sukumaran, a convicted drug smuggler and aspiring artist who was executed in Indonesia in 2015. And, upon Man Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan’s invitation, visited refugee camps in Greece, Serbia and Lebanon. One outcome of this heart-breaking experience was the publication of&nbs