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Sud is a reflection on southern Italy, particularly Puglia, the region my family comes from, and my relationship to a place that feels both familiar and distant.

The works come from travelling through towns, streets and landscapes that I recognise instinctively, despite hardly knowing them. I experience southern Italy partly as a traveller, and partly through inherited memory of family stories, rituals, food, objects and a visual language that already feels embedded in me.

My approach to painting is intuitive. The surface, scale and brushes often determine how I respond to a subject. Smaller works invite close observation and a quieter realism, while larger canvases allow for a looser, more gestural language. It often feels as though different versions of me are painting.

Puglia is sun-bleached stone, brilliant blue skies, narrow streets and generations of olive trees and fruit growing from dry earth. There’s a particular atmosphere to the south: slower, warmer and deeply sensory.

Through paintings of people, places and things, Sud explores nostalgia, belonging and the strange intimacy of returning to somewhere that has always been part of you.

‘Natura Morta con Limone’ – $750
‘Portone a Sammichele’ – $550
‘Scorfano’ – $875
‘500 Strada’ – $950
‘Barche Sulla Riva’ – $650
‘Carcofi’ – $875
‘Fichi D’India’ – $875
‘Melograni’ – $500
‘Motorino’ – $650
‘Olivi Millenari’ – $1250
‘Pere Verdi’ – $500
‘Ragu’ – $575
‘Aperol Spritz’ – $575
‘Avoca Lake, North Bank’ – $2500
‘Bari Vecchia’ – $750
‘Cannoli Siciliani’ – $550
‘Fichi e Uva’ – $850
‘Foccacia Barese’ – $550
‘Panino di Pulp’ – $550
‘Piazza a Monopoli’ – $950
‘Spaghetti Cozze’ – $550
‘U Fondarid’ – $1250

ABOUT LUCIA MIG

LUCiA MiG is a Sydney-based painter whose work moves between portraiture, still life, interiors and landscape. Her practice is described as painting people, places and things from her immediate world and travels, where memory, observation and everyday life quietly overlap.

Her works bring together figures, collected objects and observed environments with a strong sense of familiarity. Thrifted objects, everyday foods and lived-in interiors appear alongside portraits and travel-informed landscapes, where nostalgia is gently held in the subject matter.

Across these subjects, her compositions introduce a quiet tension through cropped forms, shifts in scale and unexpected pairings. Influenced by her background in graphic design, her work balances control and looseness, sitting between observation and memory.