Ashleigh Wilson is the author of A YEAR WITH WENDY WHITELEY (2022); BRETT WHITELEY: ART, LIFE AND THE OTHER THING (2016) and ON ARTISTS (2019). He was a journalist and editor for more than two decades, based in Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin, and won a Walkley Award for a series on unethical behaviour in the Aboriginal art industry. Wilson works at the Sydney Opera House, lives with his partner, a designer, and their son.