SCOTT LIVESEY GALLERIES
FEB - APRIL
2026
JULIA RITSON
NEW WORKS
7 - 28 FEBRUARY 2026
In her upcoming exhibition at Scott Livesey Galleries, Julia Ritson continues her exploration of the grid, a practice that began in 1995.
Ritson has long been interested in diptychs and their relationship to a binary way of seeing and perceiving — left and right, up and down, black and white, this and the other. For more than thirty years, she has returned to this theme primarily in painted forms in multiple exhibitions using scale, form, surface, and colour.
This is her eighth exhibition of new works at Scott Livesey Galleries. Many of the works draw from the art of mosaics and the concept of opus vermiculatum (worm-like work) — the practice of outlining forms to create depth within a picture plane. Greek and Roman mosaics from antiquity are starting points, where even a tiny fragment of background landscape can lead to a visual escape, opening each work into a richer field of perception.
EDUCATION
1990 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2023 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2021 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2018 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2011 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2009 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2006 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2003 Orson & Blake Gallery, Sydney
2003 Body Gallery, Melbourne
2001 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
1999 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
1997 Temple Studio, Melbourne
1995 Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993 Temple Studio, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Summer Salon, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2014 Twenty Fourteen, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2013 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2012 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2010 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2008 Group Show Catalogue 08, Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne
2002 Kozminsky Art, Melbourne
2001 Something for the Ladies..., Penthouse & Pavement, Melbourne
2000 Episode, Patrizia Autore Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Julia, Sarah and Joanne Ritson, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993 Ritson, Somerville, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1993 Parcel Post Show, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
1993 The Keith & Elisabeth Murdoch Travelling Fellowship Exhibition, Melbourne
1992 Diary, Linden, St Kilda Arts Centre, Melbourne
1990 Seven Artists, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne
1990 20 Painters, Ministry of Arts, Melbourne
AWARDS
1990 Dora Wilson Award for Painting (Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria), Victorian College of the Arts
Opposite (top): Untitled 2322, 2023, oil on linen, 51 x 51 cm
Left (below): Untitled 2507, 2025 oil on linen, 51 x 66 cm / Right (below): Julia in her studio 2025
Above (top): Untitled 2509, 2025 oil on linen, 51 x 66 cm / (below): Untitled 2508, 2025 oil on linen, 51 x 66 cm
JAMES LAI
ATLAS OF THINGS
7 - 28 FEBRUARY 2026
In Atlas of Things , I look at the quiet presence of everyday objects and the imagined landscapes they sit within. The work shifts between still life and loosely formed terrain, using familiar shapes as markers of daily experience. Some of these objects carry personal connections, others are there simply because they caught my eye or offered a particular rhythm or balance within the painting.
I don’t try to give each object a defined story. Instead, I approach them with a kind of deliberate openness, allowing viewers to find their own points of resonance. The act of arranging and painting them becomes a way of paying attention, letting simple forms reveal their own character without ascribing meaning that doesn’t need to be there.
Over time, I’ve come to think of the everyday as its own kind of terrain, shaped by memory, habit, and the shifting relationships between things. Atlas of Things is my attempt to chart that terrain, to trace how objects settle, drift, and quietly shape the spaces we move through.
Born 1975, Singapore
Lives & works Sydney NSW
Singapore-born and Sydney-based contemporary landscape painter, James Lai explores abstraction in landscapes.
Self-taught, my works are not painted from life, rather they are imagined.
Painting in a figurative abstract style, I use a signature palette and gestural brush strokes to express the movements in the land and figurative elements to visually anchor the landscape.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2025 Terra Sonder - Scott Livesey Galleries (Melbourne, VIC)
2024 James Lai - Scott Livesey Galleries (Melbourne, VIC)
2024 Nature Theatre - Michael Reid Gallery (Murrurundi, NSW)
2024 Group exhibition - Inverell Art Gallery (Inverell, NSW)
2024 Solo exhibition - Woollahra Gallery (Sydney)
2023 Sulman Prize Finalist Exhibition - Art Gallery of New South Wales
AWARDS& ACHIEVEMENTS
2025 The Vincent Prize (NSW) - Finalist
2025 Georges River Art Prize (NSW) - Finalist
2024 Waverley Woollahra Art School 9x5 Landscape Prize - Finalist
2024 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize - Finalist
2024 Blacktown City Art Prize - Finalist
2023 Sir John Sulman Prize - Finalist
2023 Hawkesbury Art Prize - Finalist (Commended)
2023 Lethbridge 20000 Art Award - Finalist
2023 Calleen Art Award - Finalist
2022 Calleen Art Award - Finalist
2022 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award - Finalist
2021 SBS Landscape Prize - Finalist
2021 Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize - Finalist
2021 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award - Finalist
2021 SBS Portrait Prize - Finalist
2020 Paddington Art Prize - Finalist
2020 Gosford Art Prize - Finalist
2020 Greenway Art Prize - Finalist
2020 Little Things Art Prize - Finalist
2020 SBS Landscape Prize - Finalist
2020 Inverell Art Prize - Finalist (Acquired into Inverell Art Gallery’s permanent collection)
2020 Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award - Finalist
Opposite (top): Game Face 2, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 cm
Left (below): Carnival, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 120 cm / Right (below): Road Trip, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 120 cm
Above (top): Summer Table, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60 cm / (below): Studio image
LUKE SCIBERRAS
NEW WORKS
7 - 28 MARCH 2026
Luke Sciberras was born in Sydney in 1975. He attended the National Art School in Sydney from 1995 to 1997.
Since the 1990s, Sciberras has held more than 40 solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne and numerous regional galleries. Regional group exhibitions include Jamberoo Mountain Road at Shoalhaven Regional Art Gallery, River on the Brink: Inside the Murray-Darling Basin at S.H. Ervin Gallery Sydney and Salient: Contemporary artists at the Western Front (an exhibition commemorating the centenary of the Great War).
Sciberras has also been a finalist in the Hadley’s Art Prize and the Kedumba Drawing Award, as well as in the Wynne Prize and the Tattersalls Landscape Prize on multiple occasions.
Luke’s work is also represented in the collections of several national and state public institutions such as the National Art School Collection [NAS]; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Parliament House Collection, Canberra; the Australian War Memorial, Canberra; the Hyde Park ANZAC Memorial Sydney; Artbank; Macquarie Bank; the Union Club Sydney as well as the Neil Balnaves AO Foundation, and the Nock Art Foundation in Hong Kong. Sciberras is represented in the regional gallery collections of Manly, Shoalhaven, Bathurst, Orange, Port Macquarie, Broken Hill, Penrith and Newcastle, Campbeltown.
I’ve made paintings at and about most corners of the globe but to me Wilcannia is the most painterly place of all – Luke Sciberras, 2025
To make an impression, a gesture or a glimpse of a memory is one of our most universal and natural instincts. The impulse to tell a story or more strongly, to share is the urge to embed a place or circumstance with the human condition. Painting and drawing is, to me, the very essence of all these expressions. Perennially, I travel around and into Australian landscapes to visit and revisit people and places which hold for me a resonance and compelling painterly allure.
Invariably I have worked alongside people who occupy and understand these places best. The indigenous peoples of the central desert, Arrernte, the Walpiri in the Tanami, Wanambaal Wunguur on the Kimberley coast, Kamilaroi at Moree and the Barkindji of Wilcannia all illuminate my experience profoundly and I warm to their friendship and generosity.
In the same spirit I have learned a great deal and enjoyed long friendships with graziers, environmentalists and other non indigenous custodians who have opened their doors and gates to allow me to form intimate and sustained acquaintances with some of Australia’s most staggering beauties. This is the reason I deeply feel that an artist doesn’t go out to the landscape but into it.
These wonderful chapters in my life and the subsequent time spent in the studio come to form a series of bodies of work which enduringly reward me as much as they spur me on to the next . – Luke Sciberras, 2020
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
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
Opposite (Above): Luke’s studio
Luke exploring Dorset, England
ALFRED LOWE
NEW WORKS
8 - 24 APRIL 2026
Alfred Lowe is an Arrernte person from Snake Well in the Central Desert, north of Alice Springs. Alfred was born in 1996 and grew up in Alice Springs which is where he developed his interest in art, particularly ceramics and sculpture. Alfred started making ceramics in late 2021 at the APY Art Centre Collective’s Art Centre in Adelaide.
Alfred Lowe explores identity, culture and relationship to country as a First Nations artist. Alfred is based in Adelaide working at the Art Centre operated by the APY Art Centre Collective. Alfred’s practice is primarily focused on ceramics and fibre sculptures. Using these materials to explore themes of identity, land and the intersection of cultural practice and the modern world. Alfred’s interest in fine art is heavily influenced by his upbringing in Central Australia.
Alfred’s interest in fine arts is heavily influenced and inspired by his upbringing. Late in his career, Clifford Possum was Alfred’s neighbour, and Alfred recalls standing on truck tyres to peer over the fence, watching Clifford paint for hours. He also lived opposite Araluen Arts and Cultural Precinct and spent a significant amount of time there as a child and teenager.
Central Australia is a politically and racially charged region and this can often lead to conflict in community, but Alice is also a region of immense beauty full of people with a deep love of community and the arts.
Alfred hand builds forms using the coil method, creating figurative sculptures and vessels, and applies underglazes and mark-making to the surface. The woven fibre elements are created using techniques influenced by traditional cultural practices that have been adapted and expanded to create contemporary sculptures.
2025 Sabbia Gallery, Sydney - After Party
2024 Sabbia Gallery, Sydney - The Gathering
2023 Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne - Alfred Lowe ( the finalist works from the Ramsay Prize (AGSA )
2022 APY Gallery Melbourne - Code-Switch
2022 APY Gallery Adelaide, Adelaide - Yambah: Ceramics by Alfred Lowe
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Art Gallery of South Australia Ramsay Art Prize
2025 Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Prize
2024 Miami Beach Albertz Benda at Untitled Art
2024 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia Carriageworks, Sydney Sydney Contemporary, Sabbia Gallery Booth
2024 John Curtin Gallery, Perth - IOTA24 Codes in Parallel
2023 Hugo Michell, Adelaide - Z Munu A Titutjara: Alfred Lowe with Zaachariaha Fielding ACE Open - PRIDE
2023 NGV at Melbourne Design Fair - Discovery
2023 Craft VIC - Jugs
2023 Sabbia Gallery, Sydney - The Adelaide Exhibition
2022 Carriageworks, Sydney - Sydney ContemporarySabbia Gallery
2022 Shepparton Art Museum - Shepparton Art Museum Ceramics Award finalists exhibition
2022 Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory - NATSIAA Finalist 2022 Exhibition
2022 Festival Plaza, Adelaide - Festival Plaza Presents x JamFactory
2022 Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs - Clay on Country (Australian Ceramics Triennale)
2022 Jam Factory, Adelaide - Continuum
2022 APY Gallery, Sydney - Tjamuku –For the Grandfathers
AWARDS
2025 Winner, Rigg Design Prize, National Gallery of Victoria
2025 Finalist, Ramsay Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia
2024 Winner, MA Art Prize, Sydney Contemporary
2024 Finalist, Shelley Simpson Ceramics Award, Mud Australia
2023 Finalist, Ramsay Prize, Art Gallery of South Australia
2022 Finalist, NATSIAA
2022 Finalist, Shepparton Art Museum Ceramics Award
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of South Australia
National Gallery of Australia
Shepparton Art Museum (SAM)
Art Gallery of Ballarat Artbank
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Wallpaper Magazine, Stars Ascending
