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Painter, art director, commercial artist was born in London to Swiss parents. Lunghi studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and worked as a commercial artist before moving to Western Australia in 1937. He joined Gibbney & Son, later becoming Art Director. Lunghi was to hold this position for thirty-five years.

He joined the Perth Society of Artists and exhibited from 1937. In 1950 Lunghi won the Thorogood Prize with Off Stage in the society’s annual exhibition. He was one of the artists who exhibited in the 'Recent Australian Painting’ at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1961. When he retired in 1972, he promptly altered his age and went to lecture in the evenings at Perth Technical College for five years.

Lunghi held only three solo exhibitions. He won the 'Festival of Perth Art Exhibition’ in 1958 with his entry Boy on a Donkey now in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia. His final solo exhibition was at Davro Interiors in 1973. Lunghi firmly believed that a solid academic background was required for abstraction.

Writers:

Dr Dorothy Erickson

Date written:

2010

Last updated:

2011