Vincent Fantauzzo – Unveiled
MEET THE AUTHOR
March sees the release of ‘Unveiled’ by renowned Australian portrait artist Vincent Fantauzzo and he is visiting us to share his story.
Wednesday 26h March
6:00pm to 7.30pm
COST: $15
LOCATION: Barossa Regional Gallery
AGES: 18+
DOORS OPEN: 5.45pm for 6pm start
Light supper will be provided.
‘Unveiled’ is the incredible true story of how a street-fighting petty criminal, who was kicked out of school at fourteen, became one of Australia’s most celebrated and successful portrait artists. Raised amid poverty and violence on the poor streets of Melbourne, Vincent Fantauzzo was just a boy when he accepted, he would either die very young, become a gangster, or end up behind bars.
Join Barossa Libraries and Barossa Regional Gallery on Wednesday 26 March to hear how Vincent used forged papers to hustle his way into art school where dark secrets threatened to sink his brilliant career before it even began. Today his work hangs in galleries around the world including the National Portrait Gallery and Federal Parliament House in Canberra. He’s sold-out international exhibitions, won the Archibald Prize People’s Choice Award more times than any artist and taken out the Doug Moran Portrait Prize. Twice.
We look forward to learning more about Vincent and the remarkable, sometimes ridiculous, and occasionally glamorous, life he willed into existence despite severe and undiagnosed dyslexia that left him with no formal education and debilitating memory problems. Sometimes tragic, often hilarious but always deeply moving, Unveiled is a paint-spattered, star-studded, white-knuckle ride from the Housing Commission ghettos of Australia to the art galleries of Hong Kong, through the back roads of India and into the nightclubs of New York as Vincent chases his dream with humility, humour and a boundless love for people and a life better lived.
This is an event that you will absolutely remember for many years.
Image 1: Vincent Fantauzzo, Portrait Artist. Author of ‘Unveiled’. Image courtesy of artist.
Image 2: Front Cover of book ‘Unveiled’ by Vincent Fantauzzo. Image courtesy of artist.
