CV
Born in Malta, lives and works in London and Hertfordshire
Exhibitions and events
2024
- The Queer Beach: LGBTQ Communities and the Seaside / Jubilee Library, Brighton and online (group)
2023
- Play & Compassion / Kingshill House Creative Centre, Dursley (group)
- Tip of the Tongue / Metropolis Contemporary Gallery, Brighton (solo)
- Raise Your Glasses / Two Trees Micro Brewery, Watford (solo)
- Where, Why, How: Acquiring Our Collection / Space2 Gallery, Watford Museum, Watford (group)
- The Two Of Us / Show-Show Gallery, Ghent, Belgium (solo)
- The Letchworth Open 2023 / Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (group)
- The Fine Art Room Summer Exhibition 2023 / Questors Theatre, London (curator)
- The Erotic Art Show 2023 / Bargehouse Gallery, London (group)
2022
- Dirty Secrets / Fronteer gallery, Sheffield (group)
- Laughter…It’s The Best Medicine / Open Door Gallery, Berkhamsted (group)
- On The Blink / Space2 Gallery, Watford Museum, Watford (solo)
- Living In The Past / Cupola Gallery, Sheffield (group)
- Illustration supplied for Mythos II zine published in Norwich
- Surreal Reality / Liebig12 Gallery, Berlin (group)
- On The Blink / Questors Theatre, Ealing, London (solo)
- Glitter In My Wounds / Metropolis Contemporary Gallery, Brighton (group)
- The Letchworth Open 2022 / Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (group)
- Inktober 2022 / month-long, daily drawing challenge
- A Letter In Mind - A Sense of Movement / Gallery Different, London (group) and online
- Money Shot / Metropolis Contemporary Gallery, Brighton (group)
- Watford Charter Centenary Exhibition / Space2 Gallery, Watford (group)
- Southwark Park Gallery 38th Annual Open Exhibition / Southwark Park Gallery, London (group)
- We Called Yesterday, Today / Cupola Gallery, Sheffield (group)
- In Cognito, sound piece broadcast on Round Radio / roundradio.com
2021
- Look Both Ways / online artist talk, City Lit, London
- Summer Exhibition / All Creatures - The Workhouse gallery, Dunstable (group)
- 70th Unbirthday Party Art Challenge / online Instagram art event
- Art in the Nave 2021 / St Mary’s Church, Hemel Hempstead (group)
- Herts Open Studio 2021 / Dacorum Creatives Art Hub, Hemel Hempstead (group)
- Autumn Exhibition 2021 / Dacorum Creatives Art Hub, Hemel Hempstead (group)
- Berkhamsted Art Society Winter Exhibition 2021 / Civic Centre, Berkhamsted (group)
2020
– Hertfordshire Year of Culture, Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire (workshop leader)
– Art-19 Project - featured artist, Drugi Par Gaca Magazine, Croatia
– Inktober 2020 / month-long, daily drawing challenge
– Look Both Ways / online artist talk, City Lit, London
2019
– Why You Will Get Falling In Love Wrong, Space2 Gallery, Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire (group)
– The Two Of Us, Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta, Malta (solo)
– The Two Of Us, The Questors Theatre, Ealing, London (solo)
– Dreams / Watford Area Arts Forum art challenge exhibition 2019, Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire – judge
– Ealing Beat 2019 art trail with The Fine Art Room (group)
– 100 Centenary Portraits – a century old, a century young, City Lit gallery, London (group)
– Inktober 2019 / month-long daily drawing challenge
– That’s Entertainment, Questors Theatre, Ealing, London with The Fine Art Room (group) – curator
2018
– Ware Art Trail, Ware, Hertfordshire (group)
– 100, Watford Museum (group)
– Ealing Beat 2018 art trail with The Fine Art Room (group)
– See and Saw, Kiva cafe, London (solo)
2017
– Myth & Lore, Styx, London (group)
– Collage and mixed media course exhibition, Open Ealing, Orchard Cafe, London – curator
– Autumn Learn to Draw course exhibition, Open Ealing, Orchard Cafe, London – curator
– Summer Learn to Draw course exhibition, Open Ealing, Orchard Cafe, London – curator
– Homebodies, Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire (solo)
– The Aldenham Art Festival, Aldenham, Hertfordshire (group)
– Small Is Beautiful, Open Ealing, Orchard Cafe, London – curator + judge on competition judging panel
– Home Truths, Peter Ingram Gallery, Frogmore Paper Mill, Apsley, Hertfordshire (solo)
– Home Truths, OPEN Ealing, Orchard Cafe, London (solo)
– #33 Annual Open Art Exhibition, CGP London, The Gallery By The Pool, Bermondsey, London (group)
2016
– USB-Shuffle-Show (Four), Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin (group)
– Photography, Nude Tin Can Gallery, St Albans, Hertfordshire (group)
– Shakespeare, Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire (group)
– The 32nd CGP London Annual Open Exhibition, Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park, London (group)
– Painting course exhibition, Open Ealing, Orchard Cafe, London – curator
2015
– Off The Wall, Rebel Pebble, Watford, Hertfordshire (group)
– The Stranger That Is Next To Me, Autonomous Cultural Social Centre, Skopje, Macedonia (group)
– Fairy Tales, Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire (group)
– Bells From The Deep, Hundred Years Gallery, London (group)
– Nude and Fully Clothed, Nude Tin Can Gallery, St Albans, Hertfordshire (group)
– The 31st CGP London Annual Open Exhibition, Cafe Gallery, Southwark Park, London (group)
– Geometric and Colour, Nude Tin Can Gallery, St Albans, Hertfordshire (group)
– Capturing the Essence of Time, Artistsmeet, Watersmeet, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire (group)
2014
– Escape to Happiness (with Guerilla Galleries), Daniel Liebskind Space, London (group)
– Walking The Line, Upstairs Gallery, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire (group)
– Like Home, Ghost Club, London (talk)
– Toride International Video Projection Contest 2014, Toride, Japan (group)
– Project Two Thousand Fourteen, (online gallery – artist of the day, 14 April)
– The Stranger That Is Next To Me, Errant Bodies, Berlin (group)
– Grace (part of the Bushey Arts Festival), Bushey, Hertfordshire (group)
– Where’s The Art?, Modern Art Gallery, Oxford (group)
– A Letter In Mind (The National Brain Appeal charity auction), Gallery@oxo, London (group)
– Play Dead, The Old Curiosity Box, Northaw, Hertfordshire (solo)
– Art, Language, Location, Cambridge University, Cambridge (group)
– Papergirl Blackburn, St John’s Centre, Blackburn, Lancashire (group)
– Winter Exhibition, Rebel Pebble, Watford, Hertfordshire (group)
2013
– Context, The Upstairs Gallery, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire (group)
– Micro-publishing workshop and exhibition, (in response to the exhibition Dreaming through –on & into the exotic by Paula Roush and Maria Lusitano), 192 Gallery, London (group)
– City Lit Visual Arts show, City Lit, London (group)
– Lost Soles pop up exhibition (part of the London Design Festival), London (group)
– London Stories, Battersea Arts Centre, London (storytelling performance)
– ECHOES#2: Audio portraits of place – Mapping The Space Between A and B, Stress.fm broadcast, Lisbon, Portugal
– Spark London: Fear, Platform Theatre, Central St Martins, London (storytelling performance)
– Like Home, Ghost Night, London Fortean Society, London (talk)
– Eastern Approaches, St Albans Museum, Hertfordshire (group)
2012
– Freedom? Privacy? PI (Prvomajski Inkubator), Art and Culture Laboratory, KRK, Croatia (collaboration with Ting-Ting Cheng) (group)
– Fragments, University of Westminster MA Art and Media Practice Course Graduate Show, Ambika P3, London (group)
– Papergirl Bristol, The Looking Glass, Bristol (group)
– Like Home, Space2 Gallery, Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire (solo show)
– London Ghost Conference, Bishopsgate Institute, London (talk)
– Ghost IV, St John on Bethnal Green, London (group)
2011
– Hope, Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Watford, Hertfordshire (group)
– MA Art and Media Practice Interim show, London Gallery West, University of Westminster, London (group)
– 2 To The Power 10, Orange Dot Gallery, London (group)
2010
– Freedom, Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Watford, Hertfordshire (group)
– The City Lit Fine Art Course Show, City Lit, London (group)
2009
– St Albans Summer Exhibition, St Albans, Hertfordshire (group)
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Education
– MA Art and Media Practice – University Of Westminster, London (2010- 2012). Distinction.
– The City Lit Fine Art Course, City Lit, London (2009 – 2010).
– BA (Hons.) Technical Communication (Information Design) – Coventry University (1994-1997). First.
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Selected Press, Awards and Commendation
– Art-19 Project - featured artist with painting Puppy Fat (You And Me); Drugi Par Gaca Magazine, Croatia, July 2020
– The Londoner who changed his life and career at City Lit – interview with Jo Good on BBC Radio London broadast on Monday 23 September 2019 (listen)
– Meander Arti u Kultura TV programme, broadcast on Maltese Net TV channel, Friday 24 May 2019
– Live interview on Ghall-Erwiegh Il Hadd – Maltese radio programme hosted by Manuel Cassar on RTK 103 FM, broadcast on Sunday 19 May 2019
– Artist’s debut exhibition in Malta – The Times of Malta newspaper, published Friday 17 May 2019 (read)
– Kultura News / TVM news (TV programme on Maltese TV network TVM1), broadcast on Monday 6 May 2019
– TVAM (TV programme on Maltese TV network, TVM1), live interview broadcast on Friday 3 May 2019
– It Takes Two – Malta Today newspaper, published May 1, 2019 (read)
– Returning Home with The Two Of Us – Malta Independent newspaper, published April 23 2019 (read)
– Artist Mario Lautier Vella to Make his Malta Debut at Palazzo de la Salle – Livenewsmalta.com, published April 17 2019 (read) / Temple Magazine, published April 18 (read) / Indulge, published April 22 2019 (read)
– Best of May 2018, Artfinder newsletter, published June 3, 2018
– Erotic art: what’s appropriate or not – Artfinder blog and newsletter, published September 27, 2017
– Stepping up – Art Language Location blog, published October 25, 2014
– Slag Mag – Issue 2: The Return, May 2014
– Real-Life Hauntings – Redwhite, August 26 2012
– High spirits at Maltese artist’s UK solo show debut – Malta Independent, August 19 2012 (read)
– There’s a ghost in my house, Watford Observer, Hendon & Finchley Times, Barnet & Potters Bar Times, Edgware & Mill Hill Times July 30, 2012 (read)
– Valletta ghost stories in London, Malta Independent, July 24, 2010 (read)
– First Prize, Richard Harrington Challenge Trophy 2018 for Watfordians (100 years, 100 lives) (exhibited at Watford Museum, Hertfordshire, 2018)
– Drawing Chummy VI selected for Best of May 2018 featured collection on Artfinder (2018)
– Drawing Bubs and collage pieces Permissions I and Permissions II selected for All Things Weird and Wonderful featured collection on Artfinder (2017)
– First Prize, Richard Harrington Challenge Trophy 2016 for Seven Ages of Man (exhibited at Watford Museum, Hertfordshire, 2016).
– Collage piece Permissions I selected for Best of Erotic Art featured collection on Artfinder (2016)
– Collage pieces Permissions I, Permissions II and Flicks selected for The Beauty of the Body featured collection on Artfinder (2016)
– Collage pieces Flicks and (I’m A) Real Boy Now selected for Figures & Form featured collection on Artfinder (2016)
– Drawing Bubs selected for All Things Weird and Wonderful featured collection on Artfinder (2016)
– Second Prize, Richard Harrington Challenge Trophy 2015 for Upstairs (exhibited at Watford Museum, Hertfordshire, 2015).
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Teaching
– Current, previous and upcoming courses at The Fine Art Room, London include Learn to draw, Learn to paint, Art studio (Monday morning; Monday afternoon; Tuesday afternoon; online), Draw London, Draw and paint: Malta, Draw and paint: Venice, Draw and paint: Seville, Get Set for Ealing Beat workshop, Inspired by: Degas, Inspired by: Schiele, Inspired by: Bonnard, Life drawing studio, Pastels workshop, Monoprinting workshop, Abstract drawing and painting (online)
– Current, previous and upcooming courses at City Lit, London include Start drawing, Experience drawing, Introduction to drawing: evening summer school, Drawing 1, Drawing 2, Experimental drawing. Surrealist Sunday, Start life drawing, Experimental life drawing, Explore your creativity, Art and text, Start collage and mixed media, Starting a sketchbook: techniques, processes and materials, Extended drawing for artists and makers (visiting tutor)
Other previous workshops include:
– Have a go: drawing; Have a go: painting; Have a go: pastels workshops – Watford Museum, Watford, Hertfordshire, March 2020 - part of Hertfordshire Year of Culture 2020
– Fantasy faces, places and spaces workshop – Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, London, May 2017
– Exploring your creativity workshop – Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, March 2017
– Big Draw 2015: Every Object Tells A Story – Watford Museum, October 2015
– Experimental drawing, Hundred Years Gallery, London, August 2015
– Children’s mask workshop, Watford Museum, August 2012