Vincent Fantauzzo

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Vincent Fantauzzo (born 1977, Manchester, England), is a Melbourne-based Australian portrait artist known for his award-winning portraits of Heath Ledger, Brandon Walters, Matt Moran, Emma Hack, Baz Luhrmann, Asher Keddie and his son Luca. He has won the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize twice, the Archibald Packing Room Prize, and the Archibald People's Choice Award four times. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

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Career

Fantauzzo was born in England in 1977 and spent his very early years in Manchester. His family migrated to Australia when he was a child. He has a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) (2003) and a Master of Fine Art (2005) from RMIT University, Melbourne. He has had solo exhibitions at Dianne Tanzer Gallery in Melbourne in 2007 and 2008 and in Mumbai India in 2007. He won the 2003 Tolarno RMIT Partnership Prize and was a finalist in the 2007 Shirley Hannan Portrait Prize, DLAP, Whyalla Art Award and Duke Gold Coast Art Prize. [2]

In 2008 he was awarded an artist's residency at Chancery Lane Gallery in Hong Kong where he had a solo exhibition. He has also had solo exhibitions at the L. A. Art Fair and at Sydney's Boutwell Draper Gallery, which coincided with the opening of the Archibald. He was a finalist in 2008's Metro 5 Art Award, EMSC Award[ clarification needed ] and Duke Gold Coast Art Prize. [3]

Fantauzzo is known for his photorealistic style, which, according to the art critic for The Australian , Christopher Allen, is to painting what lip-syncing is to singing. [7] Allen described the portrait of Keddie in 2013 as "an elaborate oil rendition of a photograph that trivialises the art of painting and that of photography, as well as apparently contravening the rules of the exhibition." [a] [8]

Fantauzzo was chosen to paint the official portrait of former Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard in 2017. [9] The portrait was unveiled in Parliament House Canberra on 24 October 2018.

Selected works

Family

Fantauzzo has a son, Luca, born 2010, by his first wife, Michelle. [1]

He has a second son, Valentino, with his second wife, Asher Keddie. Fantauzzo met Keddie in 2012 after both had separated from their spouses. Fantauzzo's 2012 portrait of Keddie won the People's Choice Award at the 2013 Archibald Prize. They married in April 2014. [13] On 1 March 2015, the couple welcomed their first child. [14] [15]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Archibald submissions must be produced from life.

Sources

  1. 1 2 "Asher's brush with love again". Herald Sun . Melbourne. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 Winner: People's Choice 2008, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  3. 1 2 3 Winner: People's Choice 2009, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  4. 1 2 Winner: Packing Room Prize 2011, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  5. 1 2 Winner: People's Choice 2013, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  6. 1 2 Winner: People's Choice 2014, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  7. ↑ "Portrait of modern mediocrity" by Christopher Allen, The Australian , 4 May 2011
  8. ↑ "Portraiture that looks like a snap to paint in Archibald Prize" by Christopher Allen, The Australian, 14 March 2013
  9. ↑ "Gillard delighted with her portrait artist". SBS News. AAP. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  10. ↑ Photo of Fantauzzo and Moran with the portrait, 8 April 2011, news.com.au
  11. ↑ 2011 National Portrait Prize Winner, www.moranprizes.com.au
  12. ↑ Harmon, Steph (5 December 2021). "Doug Moran prize 2021: judges pick three $100,000 winners in unprecedented decision – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 6 December 2021.
  13. ↑ "Asher Keddie marries Vincent Fantauzzo in Fiji". The Sydney Morning Herald . 21 April 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  14. ↑ "Asher Keddie and Vincent Fantauzzo welcome first child". The Courier-Mail . 17 March 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  15. ↑ "Asher Keddie opens up on her baby son Valentino", Who via news.com.au, 25 March 2015
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