SELFIE
THE ARTISTS
Victor Agius
Born: 1982
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Art Education:
Graduate of Central St Martins, UK
Victor works in ceramics as well as more conventional material. His sculpture and paintings bear a relation to each other, both being abstract isolated forms, rich in texture and tactile.
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Blurred identities
Arthur Aquilina
Born: 23 January 1978
Nationality: Maltese
Self-Taught Artist
Aquilina always sought for inspiration from various old masters and contemporary artists to enhance and improve his own original style. His preferred medium is acrylics and his subject focuses on the human form.
Aquilina is proud to present his work for the first time, in this group exhibition entitled ‘SELFIE’.
Comment on the Selfie Challenge:
Exciting
Daniela Attard
Born: 22 August 1989
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Art Education:
BA Art History at theUniversity of Malta
4 years of Life Drawing at Malta Society of Arts
MA Communication Design: Illustration at Kingston University, UK
Daniela’s preferred media is Pencil (traditional) and Photoshop (Digital). Her subject matter focuses on character design and fantasy.
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Commitment
Ray Axiaq
Born: 26 September 1960
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Education:
Degree in Fine Art - MCAST Malta 2014
Axaiq has an 'affinity' with the local landscape and interprets mundane scenes into bold vibrant, colourist blocks that are filled with the emotion and the speed of the work.
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I was delighted to be invited and felt that the area of portraiture is very current and one that I enjoy equally as my landscapes. I waited until the deadline to paint but was emotional and physical working on this new work since the invitation!!
Umberto Buttigieg
Born: 12 April 1989
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Education:
BA Art History at the University of Malta
Ma Fine Art at the University of Brighton
Umberto is a multimedia artist specializing in video art, performance, manipulation and pastiche. His preferred subject matter is Purity and Impurity, repetition, obsession, compulsion, transformation and spiritual enlightenment.
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Revealing
Debbie Caruana Dingli
Born: 3 March 1962
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Arts Education:
School of Arts
Debbie has been painting steadily for 30yrs and has carved a niche for herself with watercolour portraits.
Her favourite mediums are watercolour and oils, turning to cartoon paintings when she feels she needs to deliver a strong message.
She has held 6 solo exhibitions and taken part in numerous collective ones, both in Malta and abroad. Next year Bank of Valletta will be holding a retrospective of her work.
Comment on the Selfie Challenge:
Curious
Joseph Chetcuti
Born: 24 May 1960
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Education:
School of Arts in Valletta with Mr Vincent Apap
Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence
Annigoni’s workshop, side by side with Alfredo Cifariello and Nardo Bernardini
Del Giudice’s Art Bronze Foundry
Chetcuti’s preferred media is sculpture and his favourite subject matter is the nude.
Comment on the Selfie Challenge:
This is a subject matter that is timeless.
Alex Dalli
Born: 28 April 1958
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Education:
School of Art, Malta under the tutorship of Harry Alden and Esprit Barthet.
Art History appreciation under Fr.Marius Zerafa.
Alex’s work is minimalistic and leans towards Abstraction. He uses a variety of media.
His works are exhibited both locally and abroad.
Patrick Dalli
Born: 1955
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Arts Education:
Under tutorship of Anton Calleja
Dalli started as a self-taught artist and in 1995, moved on to formal training under the tutorship of Anton Calleja, focusing his interest on the human figure and in later years he started concentrating on the nude.
Antoine Farrugia
Born: 22 July 1969
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Arts Education:
Diploma, School of Arts, Valletta
Farrugia started as a self-taught artist who later on started training under the tutorship of Anton Grech. His preferred media is sculpture and the subject that interests him most is the human abstract form. He is mainly influenced by the love of the medium and the symbolic energy he derives from it to vent his deepest feelings.
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Unthinkable
Rune Bo Jakobsen
Born: 1975
Nationality: Danish
Formal Arts Education:
Masters in Architecture at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark 1994-2000
In his paintings he expresses the colours hidden within the shadows, and portrays the emotions embedded within a space - and the glow within an individual. Concurrently he experiments with concrete sculptures using flexible formwork creating ‘expanding’ volumes as sensory experiences.
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G o l d e n
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Tonio Mallia
Born: 7 October 1955
Nationality: Maltese
Self-Taught Artist
Mallia began his artistic career as a painter of landscapes in watercolours, a medium with which he has continuously experimented and through experience perfected.
The use of mixed media on textured rice-paper can be considered his trademark.
Tonio has unfailingly continued to evolve in the representational field, consumed by a painfully truthful understanding of human nature while propelled by a deep empathy and yearning for the divine, which can only be expressed through his art.
Franco Navarro
Born: 24 April 1978
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Arts Education:
BA History of Art at University of Malta
MA History of Art at University of Malta
Navarro’s preferred media is Oil colour, however he also ventures in the spolvero technique and silver-point drawings. His art focuses on people and the capturing of deep emotions.
Comment on Selfie Challenge:
Narcissism
I think selfies are us at d centre of attention without being anyone important or famous
Reuben Pace
Born: 13 November 1974
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Arts Education:
M.A. University of Bangor
PhD University of Bangor
Pace is a contemporary music composer and producer working in both the acoustic and the electronic medium. His music has been performed in UK including by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, in Russia, Italy, Germany and Czech Republic. He is currently working on the multi-media song cycle ‘Il-Kantilena’ – the first musical work ever which utilises medieval Maltese and the first time the oldest surviving text in Maltese ‘il-Kantilena’ by Pietro Kaxaro is being set to music.
Comment on Selfie Challenge:
Challenging
Christopher Saliba
Born: 27 August 1975
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Arts Education:
Degree in Art Education at University of Malta
Post-Graduate Degree in Fine Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Pietro Vannucci, Perugia, Italy.
Though painting still remains his preferred medium his versatile approach to art allows him to reveal in different ways the complex nature of the human being as well as the primordial link between mankind and the natural environment.
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Mirror
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Blanche Schembri
Born: 8 November 1988
Nationality: Maltese
Self-Taught Artist
Blanche is familiar with Portraiture, and figurative art, as this area is one that she pursues on regular basis.
She has exhibited locally.
Her work explores mark making, form and colour.
Comment on the Selfie Challenge:
This was an unexpected, opportunity and platform for me to exhibit with such a renowned Artists.
Joseph P Smith
Born: 17 March 1959
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Art Education:
Design Scholarship at the Accademia Lorenzo di Medici in Florence Italy.
Graphic Course at the Art & Design
Centre, Malta.
On going Education: MA in Fine Arts-Digital at the University of Malta.
Joseph’s preferred media is Photographic. His subject matter is: Portraiture, Performing Arts and Social Documentary.
Comment on the Selfie Challenge:
The ideology was interesting and a unique, thematic, group exhibition.
Darren Tanti
Born: 21 November 1987
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Arts Education:
Masters of Fine Arts in Digital Arts (Melit.) at University of Malta
B.ed (Hons) Art (Melit) at University of Malta
Darren is renowned for his technically accomplished and thematically loaded paintings. Tanti’s preferred media are oils and aquarelles. The subject he focuses on are hyper-reality, contemporary society and religion
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Apropos
James Vella Clark
Born: 1975
Nationality: Maltese
Self-Taught Artist
Vella Clark is one of Malta’s main exponents of Expressionism. He pursues abstract landscapes as his preferred subject matter. The omni-present church dome and its steeple that dominate Vella Clark’s townscapes are representative of the ongoing tension between female and male, as well as society’s dominating character on the individual’s personal life story.
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An opportunity for insight into self
Elisa Von Brockdorff
Born: 26 October 1982
Nationality: Maltese
Formal Arts Education:
Hons. Degree in Psychology at University of Malta
Diploma in Foundation Studies in Art & Design at MCAST, Art & Design Institute
MA Fine Arts at University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, Kent, UK
Elisa expresses herself through photography and installations. Her preferred subjects are mundane objects and particular people.
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Trajectory