Luke Sciberras - Seeing Stars, Cornwall & Dorset - Scott Livesey Galleries - 2026

LUKE SCIBERRAS

SEEING STARS

CORNWALL & DORSET 2026

Seeing

Stars, Cornwall and Dorset

Along the vast coasts of Cornwall and Dorset in SouthWest England are endless hills and escarpments which scoop and push winds and breezes up into a constantly turning sky.

Travelling along the ancient paths and roads that define long green hedges and the dusty windrow fields to the plunging coves and beaches - these infinitely varied landscapes defy cliché and elude any singular description to test the most dedicated hiker.

The stunning quays and beaches are populated with herons, rooks and gulls, all making a good living on the richly abundant coastal fare. Pheasants, badgers and hedgehogs seem fully aware that they are inhabiting a fairy tale environment of tranquility and of extremes.

To study and explore the staggering beauty of this part of the world gave me a taste and tone entirely new to my palette.

Steeped in a culture all its own and proudly aware of its grandeur, the Cornwall and Dorset coasts are cared for and provide for an impressively unique people, leavening the experience of being there.

Wherever a painter arrives for the first time is a trepidatious dance, a learning curve and a rhythm all anew, as in these paintings, the layers and discovery steer away from a portrait of a landscape and towards an adventurous story of light, tides and keenly observed terrains.

Luke Sciberras, 2026

THE CLINK OF THE NIGHT, MEVAGISSEY

STARS, LULWORTH

NIGHT QUAY, MEVAGISSEY

CHALK PATH, DORSET

1975 Born, Sydney, 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

2026

Seeing Stars, Cornall & Dorset, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

2025 Carry the Remainder, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney

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

2018 Escarpment, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

2018 Belle-Île, Manly Regional Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney

2017 Out There, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney

2016 About Place, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

2016 West of the Darling, King Street Gallery, Sydney

2015 Flying Goose Hill (with Elisabeth Cummings), Nock Art Foundation, Hong Kong

2015 Human Condition, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney

2015 Human Condition, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie

2014 On Country, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne

2014 From my travels, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney

2013 Tu Whit! Tu - Whoo!, Olsen Irwin Gallery, Sydney

2013 Tu Whit! Tu - Whoo!, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst

2012 Signs of Life, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2011 Highways and Other Recipes, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2010 Under A High Desert Wind, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2009 More than the Desert Reveals, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2009 Fugues and Furrows, Moree Regional Gallery, Moree

2008 Flipside - New Work, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2008 Plum Blossom Time, James Makin Gallery Melbourne

2007 Persimmon Season, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2006 Plucked and Gutted, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne

2006 Art Sydney 06, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney

2006 Luke Sciberras - Works on Paper, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2005 Wind Swept and Picked Clean, Port Jackson Press Gallery, Melbourne

2005 Art Sydney 05, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney

2003 Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2002 Monaro Country, Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra

2001 Back up the Monkey, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2000 An Uncertain Something, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

2000 Meet 2 x 2, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney

1999 Solo Exhibition at ABC Centre, Ultimo, Sydney

GROUP EXHIBITIONS - SELECTED

2021 Storylines + Songlines, Justin Art House Museum, Melbourne

2021 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

2020 Kenwood Road, King Street Gallery on William, Sydney

2020 Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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

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

Neil Balnaves Collection

Nock Art Foundation

The King’s School, Parramatta

The Union Club

Alberts Music

APRA Australia

The artist would like to thank Scott Livesey and Sophie Foley for the support and exposition they give my work perennially.

My daughter Stella Sciberras for taking me to some of the most beautiful places in Britain and for being a beautiful muse.

Jennifer Leahy for recording these paintings with her brilliant photographic talent, and the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the East Kulin Nations upon which the gallery and exhibition sit.

© COPYRIGHT 2026

ISBN | 978-1-7636980-2-4