Exhibited: Annual Exhibition (Williams Art Award), NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington, October 1980. The painting was exhibited on a 'not for sale' basis.

Tony Brunt exhibited at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts 1977 - 1980. He was on the Council of the Academy from 1979 until 1983. Brunt was most prolific in the late 1970s and only occasionally since, mainly in portraiture. A large multi-person portrait set in a Nelson Lakes National Park hut, A Quiet Night in the Upper Travers, was runner-up in the Adam Portraiture Award and Exhibition, 2002, held by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, Wellington.

Tom Fifield was a great uncle of the artist. He was born 12 March 1905 and died 17 February 1988. He was a bachelor who lived with two other unmarried brothers and an unmarried sister. They farmed in Helensville (where their parents broke in a property on the Inland Road), then later moved to Kumeu, where the studies for the painting were made. Tom was the last survivor of the four and died in an old folks' home in the Waitakeres. He was quite deaf and was a rather unworldly man, his life having revolved around rural pursuits. Tony Brunt