CV - MATTHEW PETRUCCI 

WINNER ‘BEST NON-TRADITIONAL PAINTING’, CAMBERWELL ART SHOW, 2018

 b.Victoria, Australia

 MENTORED EDUCATION

2014                            Travelled to New York and Los Angeles to study the works of the ‘American Abstract Expressionist Movement’, and the ‘Bay Area Figurative Movement’ (1940s – 1960s).

2013-2015      Student with contemporary art tutor, Kerry Ann Sullivan. 

2007-2014      Student with multi-award winning, impressionist landscape painter, John Bredl 

2005-2012      Student with traditional tonalist painter, Fiona Bilbrough (a member of the                                           Twenty Melbourne Painters Society)

 

SELECTED AWARDS/PRIZES

2023   BEST OIL PAINTING                            MORNINGTON ART SHOW

2022   BEST OIL PAINTING (under $1,500)      WHITEHORSE ART SHOW

2018   BEST NON-TRADITIONAL PAINTING   CAMBERWELL ART SHOW

2017   Best Contemporary Painting                   Grand Art Show (Berwick) 

2016   Best Contemporary Painting                  Bayside Art Show

2015   Highly Commended                               Camberwell Art Show

2015   Best Painting ($800-$1400)                   St Kevin’s College Art Show

2011   Winner                                                  Bass Coast Acquisitive Art Exhibition

2011   3rd Prize/Bass Coast Shire Award           San Remo & Phillip Island Art show

2010   ‘Best Emerging Artist’ in show               Yea Rotary Art Show 

 

SELECTED ART SHOWS

2022 -           Mornington Art Show, Mornington, Vic

2013 -           St Kevin’s College, Toorak, Vic

2013 -           Bayside Art Show (Brighton Rotary Club), Vic

2012 -           Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn, Vic

 

GROUP EXHIBITION

2011             Bass Coast Acquisitive Art Exhibition, Bass Coast Council                                            

COLLECTIONS

Public collection: Bass Coast Shire Council, Council Art Collection

Private collections: Australia, USA, Italy, England, New Zealand

Private commissions (‘Private Thoughts’ series, only):

  1. & J. Turnbull, Kew, Victoria, Australia
  2. & J. Ramage, Elwood, Victoria, Australia 
  3. & P. Steward, Tuerong, Victoria, Australia
  4. Steadman, Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia
  5. M & M. Northey, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
  6. A. & V. Bailey, Kew, Victoria, Australia