Lukifer Aurelius (Australia) is a New Zealand-born, Brisbane-based painter. In 2011, Lukifer moved to Brisbane to study classical drawing and painting techniques in a traditional atelier environment. Working mainly with oils, Lukifer creates surreal, multi-figure compositions that serve as personal meditations on the plurality of individuality, as well as on the individual relationship to the unknown and the unknowable that underpins our experience of the world. With a primarily intuitive process of ideation, the artist embraces the ambiguous character of each visual element and its place within a scene, aiming to allow for dynamic layers of tension and harmony to arise.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2019 'Inner Spaces'- Beinart Gallery, Melbourne

2018 'Seeing Between'- Duo Show- Beinart Gallery, Melbourne


GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COMPETITIONS:

2024
MIX 2024, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark

2023
At the Edge of Realism, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
Urban Currents, KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark

2022
‘Boundary Strider’ Wollongong Art Gallery-Regional Public Museum, Wollongong 'Antipodes' Beinart Gallery, Melbourne

2021
'Small Works 2021' Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 'Antipodes' Beinart Gallery, Melbourne

2019
'Small Works 2019'- Beinart Gallery, Melbourne 'Dark Art'- Beinart Gallery
'Vanguard'- Outre Gallery, Melbourne

2018
Lethbridge 10,000 Small Scale Art Award- Finalist '13th Hour'- Last Rites Gallery, New York
'Flow'- Beinart Gallery, Melbourne
'CURIO' – Trio Show- Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane 'Small Works 2018'- Beinart Gallery, Melbourne

2017
Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award- Category Prize Queensland Contemporary Art Award- Finalist
'Small Works 2017'- Beinart Gallery, Melbourne

2016
RQAS Queensland Figurative Prize- Highly Commended Lethbridge 10000 Small Scale Art Award – Finalist