Anton Pulvirenti

Anton Pulvirenti is an Australian artist who works in a representational vein, exploring issues of memory and narrative across the disciplines of drawing, painting and photography.

Pulvirenti refined his skills as an illustrator with David Paulson for seven years in the 90’s. 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. His work draws on his Italian heritage and he is one of the last practioners of the Sicilian art of Carriage painting. Since completing his PHD in painting at the Sydney College of the Arts, Pulvirenti’s work has dealt with the unique Italian- Australian experience of interment during World War II and it’s intergenerational transmission to the current day.

Submitted by REDSEA Gallery