Anton Pulvirenti

Anton Pulvirenti was born in Brisbane in 1973. An illustrator from an early age, Anton refined his skill with David  Paulson for seven years during the 90’s. After that he studied 2 years full time at the Julian Ashton Art School to consolidate a foundation in drawing. As an Undergraduate at the Canberra School of Art, he began memorializing the family history in many series of family portraits, a theme he has continued to develop to the current day.

After a successful exhibition in South Korea and Italy where he also learnt traditional Sicilian Folk style painting , he commenced Postgraduate studies at Sydney College of the Arts with a PHD in painting. However after his PHD, Anton decided to change direction, deciding to “turn my back on the ‘heavy’ medium of painting, I have found drawing to be superior in its enunciation of the second hand or removed nature of memory from actual experience (of the war for example).”

The subject of Anton’s current Postgraduate studies helps form the focus of his current work which deals with the unique Italian-Australian experience of internment during World War II and it’s inter-generational transmission to the current day.

Previous exhibitions

>> Peregrine // 5th – 28th April, 2012
>> Face Apart // 16th February – 3rd March, 2012
>> Lagomorpha // 22nd February – 26th March, 2011