Drawing and painting have always been very important tools for me, creating images allows me to reflect on my ideas and also to share them with others.

Creating images by directly looking at nature is quite exciting but it is also an impractical process as it tends to require lots of time and a still model or landscape. Early in my career, I decided to embrace digital photography as the starting point to create my compositions; I saw them as guides that I could use to translate my thoughts onto the canvas.

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts has recently opened an individual exhibition on Rana Begum (b. 1977), a contemporary artist with a growing international reputation. Spanning the last decade of her production and featuring over 25 works, this is her first solo show in a museum.

Il-Warda Tar-Riħ

Ode to Joy | EU2017MT

Truth||Lies exhibition, photo by Alexandra Pace

Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio: Can you please tell me about the history of Blitz, the history and description of the space, your personal involvement and role, and explain the context where is located?

(page from leaflet by Sonya Schönberger, distributed during Fragmenta event FIELD TRIP, January 2017)

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The loudspeaker system of the ferry terminal announces in a solemn female voice: “There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown”.

“Chance is always welcome in the work I aspire to do, I enjoy random encounters, and I had plenty in Gozo and I was lucky to include some into the work. The people and their outlook and enthusiasm to life and the other has dramatically and positively contributed in the development of the work over the 6 weeks I spent between September and November 2016. I look forward to launching the exhibition in the government of Gozo April 8^th 2017 and to see the mothers again after a while!”

EKHO, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta 2017. Photo by Rafael Mielczarek