Pulse Talks | Vincent Fantauzzo
WA is a special place for me creatively and I’m honoured to partner with The Art Gallery of Western Australia to share my story.
Art not only changed my life, it saved my life. It has given me every opportunity I can imagine -friends, family, work and career. Art is so powerful, and I believe that everyone has a right to be creative, whether it’s their job or what inspires them.
I want young artists to know that they can be ambitious and successful. Pulse 2025 is such a special opportunity for creatives to experience what it’s like to be an artist and it will be inspirational for me to see how young people are expressing themselves.
Vincent Fantauzzo
Artist and Author
Vincent Fantauzzo
About the artist and author
Born in 1977 in the United Kingdom, raised in Melbourne, Australia, Vincent Fantauzzo is a world-renowned multi-award-winning artist. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, a Master’s in Fine Arts and was appointed Adjunct Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Melbourne, in 2012.
Represented in private collections and institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Portrait Gallery and Parliament House in Canberra, Fantauzzo is one of Australia’s most celebrated and successful artists.
Fantauzzo has won the Archibald People’s Choice Award more times than any other artist. He received the Prize in 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2014 and in 2011, his portrait of Matt Moran won the Archibald Packing Room Prize. In addition to these outstanding achievements, he also won the Metro Art Award in 2011 and the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize in 2011 & 2012.
His emotionally charged works include portraiture, landscapes, narratives, and abstracts. Fantauzzo combines technical mastery and his natural ability to connect with people to create works that capture the essence and narrative of each subject.
His portraits include, Heath Ledger, Baz Luhrmann AC, Hugh Jackman AC, Asher Keddie, former Australian Prime Minister the Honourable Julia Gillard AC, Oscar Piastri F1 Driver, Jackie Stewart, Guy Pearce, Brandon Walters, Indigenous artists George Tjungarrai, Tommy Watson and Linda Syddick Napaltjarri from Australia’s Western Desert, chef Matt Moran, basketballer Scottie Pippen, rapper and entrepreneur Ice Cube.
Fantauzzo’s ability to capture the inner thoughts and emotional depths of his subjects, combined with his use of light and shadow and hyperrealistic style, has established him as one of Australia’s most highly regarded and acclaimed artists.
