Page 5 - Luke Sciberras News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Bonhams Australia offers 168 works from The Lucio's Collection, Sydney Imants Tillers, The Sacred Fish, 2016. Photo: Bonhams. SYDNEY .-Bonhams Australia presents The Lucio’s Collection in the forthcoming auction LUCIO’S: Food, Art & Friendship. Taking place on Sunday 21 March, the auction will present 168 works by many of Australia’s most respected artists, spanning the restaurant’s almost 40 years of history and celebrating Lucio and Sally Galletto’s contribution to Australia’s culinary and art landscapes. Merryn Schriever, Director Bonhams Australia comments: ‘As Lucio once said, the...

Advertisement If fine art was a fair exchange for long lunches shared during 37 years at the Paddington restaurant Lucio’s then John Olsen and Tim Storrier must have been extremely well fed. A total of 168 artworks, valued at between $560,000 and $820,000, have been retrieved from the walls of the famous eatery and are to be brought to auction on March 21. Nineteen lots are by Olsen, the most expensive being Improvisation on an Octopus, 1990, with a price guide of $40,000 to $60,000. But it is Storrier’s Point to Point (The Midday Blaze Line), 1992 – an oil on canvas – t...

  Kate McDowell, Mark Swivel and Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal at the NORPA Courtyard Bar on Thursday, talking about the state of the arts sector. State of the Sector Picnic at NORPA The State of the Sector is usually a formal address but given the arts sector has been ‘in a state’ for the past year, NORPA and Theatre Network NSW are putting on a more informal picnic in order to gather, chat and reconnect. Writer/director Kate McDowell, writer/comedian Mark Swivel, and choreographer/teacher Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal will each present a short talk responding to the following provocation: There is ...

Lucio’s closure offers rare opportunity for collectors After 38 years Lucio’s restaurant closes its doors and auctions off its unique Australian art collection. Words: Rose of Sharon Leake To say that Lucio’s restaurant in Paddington will be missed is a great understatement. Due to close its doors for good at the end of the week, Lucio’s has become more than a two hatted, multi-award winning restaurant – it has become an institution in the Australian art world. For more than 38 years, Lucio Galletto, OAM, with his wife Sally and children Matteo and Michela, has run the restaurant a...

After the Black Summer bushfires: embers of hope After the Black Summer bushfires: embers of hope Normal text size Very large text size On the morning of New Year’s Eve 2019, the day that would end with her NSW South Coast home and art studio razed to the ground by bushfires, artist Penny Lovelock shut herself inside and played the clarinet. Outside, the mercury had topped 38 degrees by 8.30am, and the backburn that was meant to protect Conjola Park from the Currowan fire, was ablaze. Sirens were blaring from fire engines on the Princes Highway, and helicopters hovered above her home gather...