Famous People with Name Sandro

Sandro Nocentini            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Sandro Nocentini: an Italian artist, living and working in Australia. He is a figurative painter, whose work is "cubist-futurist".[1] He is a winner of the Sir John Sulman Prize.[2] He arrived in Australia in 1993, and graduated with a degree in Fine Arts at the National Art School.[3] The new environment of Australia had a significant effect on his work.[3] He staged his first solo exhibition in 1996.In 2005, Nocentini was awarded the $10,000 Sir John Sulman Prize for his painting My Son Has Two Mothers.[2][4] The work was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[5] The inspiration for it came from the artist's "assisting two lesbian friends to conceive a child"; Nocentini has shown himself as a harlequin, a reference to Picasso, whose influence is apparent in the work.[1]