Ashleigh Wilson
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Ashleigh Wilson

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Ashleigh Wilson is a journalist who worked at the Australian for two decades, including as arts editor. His series on unethical behaviour in the Aboriginal art industry won a Walkley Award and led to a senate inquiry. He is the author of Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing (2016) and On Artists (2020). Wilson lives in Sydney with his partner, a designer, and their son.

Books by Ashleigh Wilson

A Year with Wendy Whiteley

A must-have for culture lovers, A Year with Wendy Whiteley sees the biographer and critic Ashleigh Wilson painting a portrait of the inimitable Wendy Whiteley—in her own words.

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Brett Whiteley

Written with unprecedented behind-the-scenes access, this acclaimed biography reveals for the first time the full portrait of Australia’s most celebrated artist.

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