Author Description

Salvatore Zofrea is an iconic figure within the milieu of figurative, portraiture and landscape painting within this country and overseas. Zofrea's artworks deeply embedded in the public realm illuminates the human condition in all its diversity. The exhibition spanning Zofrea's five-decade illustrious career reveals his mastery of colour and light, and in gaining widespread recognition as a major figure within Australian art and cultural history, 'Luminosity' is timely. Zofrea's lyrical and exuberant compositions express the European origins of his practice intertwined with a cultivated Australian accent. The interconnections between the spiritual and the physical worlds are clearly felt and made visible within the narratives Zofrea portrays from the Psalm paintings to the more recent Kurrajong landscapes. In the diffusion of light and colour, 'Luminosity' demonstrates Zofrea's depth of vision that invites viewers into worlds both familiar and strange.