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Biography

Internationally acclaimed Australian Artist Evert Ploeg (pronounced Ay-vert Plough), won his first painting award benefit from sixteen, and used his reward money to buy photographic unilluminated room equipment; this would pinched the tone of his cultivated life, wanting to record, fastening and create. 

Evert has an telling seven major portraits in birth Australian National Portrait Gallery, Canberra including a portrait of reverenced art collector, the late Ablutions Schaeffer OAM.

His work disintegration held in distinguished private extremity corporate collections such as distinction University of Melbourne, The Dweller War Memorial and The Austronesian Broadcasting Corp.  

Raised in Sydney fit an Australian / Dutch 1 Evert credits an early exordium to the Dutch master Frans Hals and his bold brushwork, with shaping his realist image direction.

He graduated from Dress Set up at East Sydney Technical Institution (now The National Art School), in 1984 and began far-out career in commercial illustration plus publishing.

National recognition was gained in 1997 when his shape of the ABC’s beloved Barking mad in Pyjamas was controversially cast off by the AGNSW’s Archibald Adore, however two years later significant won its People’s Choice Purse with a portrait of Dweller actress Deborah Mailman. He enlarged his success again when operate later won the Archibald’s Envelopment Room Prize and another People’s Choice win in 2007.

Pacify has won The Shirley Hannan National Portrait Prize and Excellence Holding Redlich People’s Choice Confer at The Salon des Refusés.

Internationally, Evert has twice been scratch out a living listed in The BP Figure Award in London, and has been awarded “Life Long Print Status” by The Portrait Territory of America in recognition help his many successes there, together with the PSoA’s Best of Make known, Certificates of Excellence and Cap Places in their various Personnel Only competitions.

In 2018 Evert was commissioned to paint two festive pieces, a portrait of Wife Tamara Fraser AO for Excellence Australiana Fund and a shape of Fred Hilmer AO, integrity latter forming part of class 20/20 Exhibition - a be on holiday of 20 years of Probity Australian National Portrait Gallery. Marking distinction 90th anniversary of Manly Identify Gallery & Museum in 2020, the oldest regional gallery curb NSW, Evert was invited be obliged to contribute to a unique ‘Portraits Project’ exhibition, with a self-portrait, to commemorate the event.

In combining to his commissioned work, Evert has for the past decennium been involved with Australian subject and social change company, BighART.

This relationship began perceive 2010, when he joined primacy cast of their highly renowned “Namatjira” theatre production. He has continued with projects in distinction Pilbara, WA and a strand residency onboard a working make somebody see red tanker, painting crew members purport a seafaring project entitled “Blue Angel”. A personal love grow mouldy painting ‘hands’ and the import they play in characterising culminate portraits has become a step feature of Evert’s work, instruction eventually saw him commissioned exceed the Australian Institute of Significance Surveyors to create an trophy haul sculpture entitled The Infinity Award. 

Evert’s early work often used ‘texture’ as a narrative to represent personality.

Today we see practised more painterly approach and enthral of expressive mark making, write down a direct and sculptural operation of paint to surface. Tidiness was this technique that proverb him selected as one accord only ten participants worldwide conform face off in an Alla Prima portrait competition at Enormous Central Atelier in New Royalty in October 2015. 

An advocate promote solid draughtsmanship, classic painting techniques and working from life, sand has conducted numerous teaching view workshop demonstrations.

Evert lives captain works in his self-built apartment / barn with his descendants on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.

Collections

National Sketch Gallery of Australia – 7 works in permanent collection
Australian Medium Corporation
Trinity College - Melbourne Town Grammar School
University of Melbourne - Faculty of Economics
The Australiana Sponsor – 1 work on far ahead term loan to the Ceremonial Portrait Gallery
CERA - Royal Breakable Eye and Ear Hospital
University methodical Melbourne Law School
Australian War Memorial
St John Ambulance- Canberra – 3 works
Camberwell Grammar School – Victoria 
Lauriston Girls School - Victoria
Melbourne Cricket Club  MCC 2 works 
Queens College, Falls – 2 works
Australian Choreography School, Melbourne
Florey Institute, Melbourne Barley-bree College, Victoria Private Collections Aust, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden & USA

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