An upcoming documentary Quilty - Painting the Shadows will follow one of Australia's leading contemporary artists as he completes one of his most challenging art works.
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Southern Highlands based artist Ben Quilty will be the subject of the ABC documentary to be aired November 19 at 9:30pm.
The artist's talent isn't the only creative skill on show in the documentary.
Chevalier alumni and Cambewarra based film composer Damien Lane worked on the score with Amanda Brown from the Go-Betweens.
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Mr Lane said he reflected on the visuals of the film to compose the score.
"The music had to be mood appropriate, help the narrative and not be intrusive," he said.
The duo used alternative methods to develop the score. A shaving brush on a guitar and a tuning fork on the strings were used to create unusual sounds.
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The score was released November 15 and is available on all major digital platforms.
The film will follow Mr Quilty in the making of a major work about the Myall Creek massacre over a number of months.Tracking the process from its beginnings as a series of drawings to the creation of one of his signature Rorschach paintings - where an original painted image is both damaged and duplicated by pressing one panel onto another while the paint is still wet.
AGNSW sales director Lisa Slade said "just as Hermann Rorschach would invite his interviewees to look at the ink blot test, Ben Quilty invites us into his paintings to find ourselves to intuit what's going on, to make meaning with what's happening in the painting".
The documentary is directed by Catherine Hunter, produced by Shelley Maine and Catherine Hunter with cinematography by Bruce Inglis.
