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Trained in traditional oil portraiture in Florence, Italy, Sydney based artist Julian Meagher describes his practice as a 'messy neat realism'.

Julian Meagher has been hung as a finalist in several prestigious Australian Art Awards including the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture (2010), Salon Des Refuse (2011, 2010, 2009, 2003, 2002), the Blake Prize (2009), and the Doug Moran Portrait Prize (2009).