Every part of our environment is either cut by or flooded by our waterways. From the smallest creeks which can often seem to flow upstream when their nearest river floods, to the grandeur of the long winding rivers which glide slowly past ancient trees and parched higher ground, we are surrounded by and often arrested by the process of water making its way to its destination. Whether it be dramatic and awe inspiring or a more subtle manoeuvre water invariably has its way. As it falls, gathers, retreats and flows the landscape on every part of the earth is formed and informed by its waterways. Here are but a few that I’ve come to love. In my travels along the lakes of Yarrawonga in Victoria, the d arling River that flows through the entire state of New South Wales, the Murrumbidgee with its sweet strength and the mysterious Lake George; I find myself like a trainspotter or a bird watcher following the nuances and beauty of each mercurial glimmer.
GRASSLANDS MURRUMBIDGEE 2024
oil on board
120 x 160 cm
MITCHELTON 2024
PAROO RIVER RUN 2024
oil on board
60 x 80 cm (each)
LUKE SCIBERRAS
1975 Born, Sydney, NSW
Lives and works NSW
SURVEY EXHIBITION
2022 Luke Sciberras: Side of the Sky. Twenty Five Years, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
SOLO EXHIBITIONS - SELECTED
2024 Waterways, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne 2023 From Scratch, King STreet Gallery on William, Sydney 2022 Arms Reach - Letters from Home, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne 2021 Close to Home, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney 2020 Black & Blue, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne 2019 Rose into View, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
Escarpment, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
Belle-Île, with Euan Macleod, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
2018 Salient: Contemporary artists at the Western Front, New England Regional Art Museum, Amidale. Also toured throughout New South Wales to Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst; Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, Muswellbrook; Bank Art Museum, Moree; Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah; and Anzac Memorial Gallery, Sydney
2018 Interiors, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
2017 The Hill End Table, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2017 Hadley’s Art Prize Hadley’s Orient Hotel, Hobart
2017 Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange
2017 Seven Decades: Hill End, Penrith Regional Art Gallery, the Lewers Bequest, Penrith
2017 Nine Lives – A Cat’s Tale, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2016 Paint My Place, Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery, Coffs Harbour
2016 Animals, Gallery 81, Sydney
2016 Phantom Exhibition, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba
2016 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2015 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2015 Your Friend the Enemy (Gallipoli Centenary Exhibition), Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra. Also toured to S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn; and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
2015 The Art of Shakespeare, Sydney Opera House, Sydney (Commissioned by Bell Shakespeare)
2015 Outback Art Prize, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill
2015 This is the End… (with Guy Maestri and Ben Quilty), Bathurst Regional Gallery, Bathurst
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Blow Ins, Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill
2012 Australia Day, Sydney Morning Herald Exhibition, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2006 Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
2006 Kedumba Drawing Prize, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls
2000
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Surry Hills
2000 Kings School Art Prize, Parramatta
1999
Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Surry Hills
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales
ANZAC Memorial
Parliament House
Bathurst Regional Gallery
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Broken Hill Regional Gallery
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Newcastle Regional Gallery
Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Orange Regional Gallery
Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest
Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie
Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
Macquarie Bank
Artbank
Pat Corrigan Collection
2020 Collection Highlights, Orange Regional Art Gallery, Orange
2019 Inside/outside, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney
2019 River on the Brink: Inside the Murray-Darling Basin, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; and Broken Hill Regional Gallery, Broken Hill
2018 Jamberoo, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Nowra
Neil Balnaves Collection
Nock Art Foundation
The King’s School, Parramatta
The Union Club
Alberts Music
APRA Australia
