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Moran portrait a cut above the rest
Fantauzzo said he was pleased to capture Moran's cheeky grin in the portrait. A portrait...
Choice fairytales
VINCENT Fantauzzo hopes Red Riding Hood will bring homeless young people their own fairytale...
Australian artist to showcase his work in Bandra | Mumbai
Article from Mumbai March 24 2007 Click here to view the PDF.
Australian artist shows at out of the blue
Article from Whats Hot March 30 2007 Click here to view the PDF.
Ledger portrait top pick for prize
The portrait of the much loved Australian actor who died from an accidental overdose...
Star gazers turn gallery into a shrine
When Vincent Fantauzzo began sketching his friend Heath Ledger for an Archibald portrait...- Star's portrait has artist in a bind
The last and only portrait of Heath Ledger captures him as an intense, brooding young... 
2008 Archibald People's Choice Prize
People's Choice award at the 2008 Archibald Prize Vincent's portrait of Heath...
30 portraits 30 days NYC
There were 798 entries, but for the gallery's packing room workers, the winner was easy to pick. A portrait of celebrity chef Moran wielding a butcher's knife in front of a carcass was the clear favourite.
Head storeman Steve Peters said: "For me it was a no-brainer. It was by far the best picture we've seen during the week. It was getting a little depressing for a while and this one came in and it sort of hit you. Beauty."
The winner of the Packing Room Prize never has gone on to win the Archibald. Mr Peters is convinced the curse will be broken. "Usually it's the kiss of bloody death,...
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October20th
30 Days trailer | Film by Josh Rothstein
A 3 minute trailer highlighting painter Vincent Fantauzzo as he sets out to paint 30 New Yorkers in 30 days. Special Thanks to Kane Manera & Schuyler Weiss.
Click here to watch the video online.
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October11th
30 New Yorkers painted in 30 days
It was a great way for a new comer to meet people, and that's exactly what the Australian did during a six week artist residency in Hong Kong three years ago. "I learned so much about Hong Kong and made so many friends, I wanted to come here and do the same thing," said Fantauzzo.
This go round, he's found some of his subjects on the streets and he snaps away. He always works from photographs and many of his paintings even look like photos... And it is in part why the National Arts Club is debuting Vincent's work.
The club's president also happens to be among Vincent's subjects.. Click here...
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Vincent Fantauzzo sealed himself into the consciousness of Australians with his triple portrait of the late Heath Ledger two years ago. Now the painter is capturing New York's attention by depicting 30 of its most colourful citizens in 30 days.
The Melbourne-based artist has spent the past month working frenetically in a studio in SoHo, downtown Manhattan, depicting individuals whom he believes shape and define contemporary New York. Each of Fantauzzo's subjects are people the artist either knows or has met while in New York attending events such as Fashion Week, nightclub openings or simply...
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October4th
More paintings from 30 Portraits 30 Days NYC
In no particular order... Ardie Fuqua, Daniel Merriweather, Fern Mallis, Jared Eng, President of The National Arts Club, Aldon James, Omar Cherif Machichi, Bradley Ellison, Curtis Kulig, Lauren Glassberg, Marge Block, Sumati Mohan Sumatimohan, Thom Filicia.
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September21st
30 portraits in 30 days by artist Vincent Fantauzzo
Melbourne raised painter Vincent Fantauzzo is probably best known for his 2008 Archibald Prize entry: a beautiful, haunting portrait of the late Heath Ledger which won the artist his first of two consecutive People's Choice awards. The second, he won for his remarkable painting of the young actor Brandon Walters who starred in Baz Luhrmann's Australia.
The most recent - and hugely ambitious - project of Fantauzzo is '30 portraits in 30 days: New York City', the artist's ‘portrait’ of New York and its people. He began the project on September 1st and we have been following ever since. Have...
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Jefferson Hack is a journalist and magazine editor and he is famous for his co-founded magazine, Dazed & Confused. He has continued contribution to The Daily Telegraph on men's fashion and style and acted as a guest-editor in The Independent... and he is a crazy DJ which is how I met him...
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September15th
Mick Rock (Portrait #7): 30 portraits in 30 days NYC
Mick is such a cool character... he rules rock!!
"Often referred to as The Man Who Shot the Seventies, legendary rock and roll photographer Mick Rock first met David Bowie in early 1972. Most of the memorable images of David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust were shot by Mick Rock in his capacity as the official Bowie photographer."
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