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Evert Ploeg
Australian portrait painter
Evert Ploeg (pronounced Ay-vert Plough; born 1963 in Sydney, New South Wales) is one of Australia's most highly regarded portrait painters, who has won a range of painting prizes, such as the 1999 and 2007 Archibald Prize (Category: People's Choice) and was awarded the highly coveted 'Signature Status' of The Portrait Society of America.[1]
Personal life
Born and raised in Sydney in a family of Dutch heritage, Ploeg works from his self-designed studio on the city's Northern Beaches, which was featured on Nine Network's 'Our House' programme in 2001.
He lives with his partner, film and television costumier, Ivana Daniele and their two daughters Aurora and Paloma.[2]
Style and Artistic Approach
Working in a tonal realist style (mostly in oil), Ploeg's pictures bespeak an approach to portraiture that is inspired by documentary methods.
Putting emphasis on visually encoding a personal narrative in any given portra