A Night With Vincent Fantauzzo
Meet the Man Behind Our Name for the Launch of Unveiled
At Crystalbrook Vincent, our walls are adorned with the bold, thought-provoking works of Vincent Fantauzzo, the artist who inspired our name. Now, we invite you to step inside his world for an intimate evening with the Archibald Prize-winner himself, as we celebrate the launch of his extraordinary memoir, Unveiled. A story of survival, creativity, and reinvention, Unveiled charts Vincent’s journey from a troubled upbringing to becoming one of Australia’s most celebrated portrait artists.
For one night only, hear his journey firsthand in an intimate setting at Crystalbrook Vincent.
Tell me more:
- When: Thursday 27th March
- Time: 6pm-8pm
- Where: Gallery Event Space, Level 3, Crystalbrook Vincent
- What: An exclusive evening with Vincent Fantauzzo and like-minded people to celebrate the launch of Unveiled, including two-hour canape package and welcome spritz
- Price: $55.00
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Unveiled
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. Tormented by a troubled home life and dismissed as a simpleton at school where he struggled to read and write, Vincent projected a violent and frightening persona as a means of self-protection. Inside that tough exterior, however, lived a thoughtful, sensitive and creative boy whose only wish was to be loved – and to one day break free of the intergenerational dysfunction he seemed doomed to inherit. He could never have imagined how far his dream of a better life – and an uncanny knack for drawing – would take him.
‘Breathtaking, beguiling and brutal. I wanted to reach in and steal that beautiful boy away from all the honesty. I wanted to run with him. I wanted to read, laugh, scrap, cry and draw with him. Keep drawing, kid. Just keep drawing! At last we have the answer to how Vincent Fantauzzo is able to capture all those human portraits with such perfection: the man has lived every sorrow, every fear, every pain, every wild joy to be found in the human experience. It is all here in these pages, too. Wonder, most of all. Read it. Please, please read it.’ Trent Dalton
The small print: tickets for this event are hosted on a third-party website that Crystalbrook Vincent does not manage. Please read all T&C’s before purchasing. Crystalbrook Crowd discount is not applicable.