Metro Gallery Art Award

August14th

Metro Winner

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When life imitated art, Docklands artist Vincent Fantauzzo ended up in hospital having emergency surgery. But it was all made worthwhile this week when Fantauzzo scooped the prestigious $50,000 Metro Gallery Art Award, the nation’s richest prize for artists 35 and under. Fantauzzo, who has already this year won the Archibald Packing Room Prize and the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, said he was humbled to win the Metro award for his painting of a man who has just been hit by a car. The artist modelled for the painting (painting from a photo of himself) and, eerily, was knocked from his motorbike...


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August14th

Metro Gallery Art Award winner announced

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Vincent Fantauzzo has won the $50,000 Metro Gallery Art Award for his strangely self-fulfilling prophecy portrait of a man recently hit by a car. Fantauzzo thanked his lucky stars that he was there to accept the award, after a strange coincidence saw him knocked off his motorbike by a taxi the day after he had finished the work. “I had been working late and the roads were fairly deserted. I was quietly heading back home on my bike when a taxi in front of me suddenly did a U turn and knocked me for six,” he said. “It was pretty serious. I had to have emergency surgery immediately...


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August2nd

Winner of the 2011 Metro Gallery Art Award

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Artist Vincent Fantauzzo thanked his lucky stars today that he was able to accept the $50,000 Metro Gallery Art Award for his painting of a man who has just been hit by a car in a road accident. In a strange twist of fate, Fantauzzo, who is also the model in the painting, was knocked off his motor bike by a taxi the day after he had finished working on it. “I had been working late and the roads were fairly deserted,” he said. “I was quietly heading back home on my bike when a taxi in front of me suddenly did a U turn and knocked me for six,” he said. “It was pretty serious. I had to have...


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August2nd

Vincent Fantauzzo wins the Metro Art Award

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1 August 2011 | Vincent Fantauzzo has been awarded the Metro Art Award for The Creek 1977, an oil painting depicting the victim of a car accident. It turned out to be a fitting subject. The artist, also the model in the work, was involved in a car accident when taxi a collided with his motorbike the day after he finished the painting. "It was pretty serious. I had to have emergency surgery immediately for a broken collar bone and I was severely bruised and cut up in general. But it could have been a lot worse," he says. Fantauzzo produced the work as part of a project he is currently completing...


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July28th

Artist scores another top prize

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It's the year of the hat-trick for Melbourne artist Vincent Fantauzzo, who yesterday took out Australia's most lucrative award for young artists, the Metro Gallery Art Award below. Twenty-five of Australia's top emerging artists sipped tentatively on their beers as the sun streamed into Metro Gallery in Armadale yesterday, awaiting the announcement of the next recipient of the award. Completing a tidy hat-trick of some of Australia's most highly sought-after art awards, Melbourne-based artist Vincent Fantauzzo stole the show, and was awarded the $50,000 cheque. It follows the Archibald Packing...


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July28th

Artist scores another top prize

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IT'S the year of the hat-trick for Melbourne artist Vincent Fantauzzo, who yesterday took out Australia's most lucrative award for young artists, the Metro Gallery Art Award Twenty-five of Australia's top emerging artists sipped tentatively on their beers as the sun streamed into Metro Gallery in Armadale yesterday, awaiting the announcement of the next recipient of the award. Completing a tidy hat-trick of some of Australia's most highly sought-after art awards, Melbourne-based artist Vincent Fantauzzo stole the show, and was awarded the $50,000 cheque. It follows the Archibald Packing Room...


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