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Australians remain fascinated with the life and times of artist Brett Whiteley. Journalist Ashleigh Wilson shares the unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to rare notebook sketches and candid family photos in his new Whiteley biography.
Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights
Presented by Philip Bacon Galleries
Ashleigh Wilson on Brett Whiteley: Art Life and the Other Thing
The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Stanley Place, Cultural Centre, Southbank, Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia
Open in MapsPhilip Bacon
Phillip Bacon AM is an art dealer, patron and philanthropist. He was named by The Australian as one of the 50 most influential people in the arts in Australia, 2012.
Ashleigh Wilson
Ashleigh Wilson has been a journalist for almost two decades. He began his career at The Australian in Sydney before moving to Brisbane, covering everything from state politics to the Hollingworth crisis. He then became the paper’s Darwin correspondent, a posting bookended by the Falconio murder trial and the Howard government’s intervention in remote Aboriginal communities. He won a Walkley Award for reports on unethical behaviour in the Aboriginal art industry. He returned to Sydney in 2008 and has been the paper’s Arts Editor since 2011.