Berlin's Tiergarten, a former pocket of East Berlin, surrounded by dumpster bins. Quick visited the monument three months after the fall of the Berlin Wall yet the round-the-clock security continued, for a time before being replaced by weeds. As Hungarian art and culture magazine MashKulture wrote, "The arising ironic undertone provides the perfect foundation for a revisionist take on the notions of beauty, pride, and nationalism." A monograph book "Based On a True Story", published in 2015, covers 10 years of Quick's work. Prior careers After completing a Bachelor of Design at the University of South Australia, Quick worked in Melbourne, Sydney, London and Kuala Lumpur. Early clients include World Expo 88, Parliament House, Canberra, and Rio Tinto Group. He illustrated children's books and wrote novels: His first was short-listed for the Vogel Literature Award in 1991. He began collaborating with the publisher Carlos Rashid Hitam through a job with an international advertising agency. Following Carlos's death in the Highland Towers collapse, Quick was invited by Musa Hitam to run his son's Malaysia-based publishing business. Quick later founded the advertising agency, Q&A. After overcoming cancer at the age of 36, Quick turned to painting. Works as illustrator Which Way Now? (by Josephine Croser) (Douglas & McIntyre, 1987) Firestorm! (by Roger Vaughan Carr) (Puffin Books, 1989) Seashores & Shadows (by Colin Thiele) (1998) What Came Out of My Bean (by Brian Birchall) References External links Official website Matthew Quick at Beinart Gallery Available art & bio Hill Smith Gallery Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary "A Life in Four Acts" on YouTube Living people 1967 births Australian advertising executives Artists from Adelaide University of South Australia alumni Australian painters