Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login The earliest painting in an unusual exhibition by Archibald-winning artist Ben Quilty is of a suicide bomber in Gaza. Bomber was created before Quilty was a full-time artist, while he was working for Channel 7 as an overnight analyst monitoring images of atrocities being beamed, uncensored, onto a wall of screens.
His job was to evaluate which images could be shown on mainstream news broadcasts. Quilty watched the excruciating death of the bomber, whose device failed to detonate properly, leaving him to die slowly with his guts spilled on the ground. Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
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