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Director’s Message ‘Distinct’. This is the focus of the 2019 edition of the MCAST ICA Festival, a creative arts festival which builds on the achievements of my predecessors, and which this year has been extended to span a full month between 4 July and 4 August. ‘Distinct’ is represented by a stylised fingerprint - the mark that distinguishes one individual from another. Such is the work showcased during this festival; students from the same cohort having followed the same programme of studies and therefore having experienced a similar formation are showing that which distinguishes themselves from their peers. Moreover, through this festival one can also appreciate the various idiosyncratic outcomes reached through the diverse areas of studies within the creative arts – Fine Arts,
Photography, Game Art & Visual Design, Interactive Media, Graphic Design, Creative Media, Journalism, Spatial & Product Design, Fashion & Retail, Performing Arts, and Cultural Heritage. Our learners have gradually developed an identity, facilitated by the experiences afforded them along their journey within the Institute for the Creative Arts. We did not walk this journey alone. Supported by our mother institution MCAST, an institution that also has a distinct identity within the field of further and higher education, and in partnership with numerous stakeholders in the industry, such formation has taken shape in a unique way that rightly deserves to be celebrated.
The context of this year’s celebration is Spazju Kreattiv – Malta’s national centre for creativity - which provides a meaningful platform to further bridge the gap between student life and life within the community and industry. Within the heart of Valletta, last year’s European Capital of Culture, it acts as a fitting venue for ‘Distinct’. Sincere thanks go to ICA staff and students who have worked tirelessly to make this event possible, colleagues within MCAST for their support and contribution, and industry partners who have been key players along the way. I trust that the result of this collaborative effort will translate into a truly distinctive experience for each one of you.
Dr Martina Caruana
Body Image Acrylic on Paper
Nicole Ann Cachia Student Bio: Born in Malta in 1996, Nicole Anne Cachia is currently reading for a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Arts, at MCAST Institute of Creative Arts in Mosta. Nicole Cachia is a mixed media artist, holds a fascination by the human body and approaches this through the use of colour, textures, brush strokes and material. She also uses various forms of abstraction and collages as a means for expression. Cachia has worked as a painter with TOOM Malta, Film Industry. In 2017, she took part in an Exhibition in MCAST Institute of Creative Arts. Artist Statement: Cachia, a multimedia artist, is fascinated by the human body and the emotional and physical connection. The starting of this project is based on Body Image and its integral part in daily life reflected upon
through art practice. Her study aims to be a reflection on different issues related to Body Image, leading to the creation of an artwork which is relatable by it audience. It contributes and helps the artist to understand more about self body image and others. Analysing techniques and methods through an artistic practice, where the main process will be an artistic medium. The choice of Body Image is derived from self-experience. As a result, the whole process led to a better understanding on body image and self-seen through a creative expression.
FBRZ VLL Student Bio: FBRZ VLL is a Maltese Media ‘’Artist’’ with a focus on appropriation and the many iterations it can take. It does so by utilising discarded materials, repurposing them and even incorporating them with the relatively new concepts of the digital meme. Its works seek to break boundaries between artwork and viewer, by disregarding the conventional means of experiencing art and having its works act as a catalyst for interaction. Artist Statement: Always scavenging and having a keen eye Fbrz finds various objects, be it Physical or digital and discovers diverse ways to reuse them and giving them another life and purpose. Either by restoring them or completely
flipping things over presenting them with a new function. Obsolescence and uselessness fascinate it as the original use of the objects might no longer be needed but that doesn’t always mean that that’s the end for them. Since most of its work generally includes upcycled and appropriated elements, one could easily imprint them with an environmentally conscious theme. This however rarely is the focus as they are more centred around the aspects of interaction and reaction. The works stop being something that’s too precious to be touched and they revert into being relatively familiar objects. The intention being to ease up the spectator and inviting them to play rather than just observing them form a ‘’safe’’ distance.
L-Art Interactive Installation
Stefan Spiteri Student Bio:
Artist Statement:
Stefan Spiteri (b.1998) is currently reading for a BA in Fine Art at MCAST.
This body of work is an exploration of the relationship between nature and civilization and how this is manifested physically and symbolically in the garden. The paintings study the dualities present in the artist’s personal garden - civilization and nature, order and chaos, inside and outside. The series of paintings are a representation of the Researcher’s personal garden viewed and expressed through both sides of any given duality. To represent his garden the researcher is applying symbolic and aesthetic ways of viewing his garden appropriated from ancient and contemporary gardens from eastern and western civilizations.
His main focus is two dimensional work primarily drawing, painting and collage. His creative process revolves around the theme of space in which identity, memory and time are explored. In December 2018 he participated in a group exhibition entitled Shifting Contexts at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta. In March of that year he underwent a three week artist’s residency in Piedmont, Italy as one of the selected artists for the Amuse project. In 2016, he spent two months executing paintings on site for a private nursing home in Queensland, Australia. The intention being to ease up the spectator and inviting them to play rather than just observing them form a ‘’safe’’ distance.
Oil on Wood Panel
The Garden
FranCesca Pisani Student Bio: Francesca Pisani is from Sliema, Malta. She is currently in her final year for a Bachelors in Fine Arts at Mcast Institute of Creative Arts. A traditionalist in technique, and has a graphical approach. Making use of flat surfaces, but not limiting them to being only 2D. This is shown in her work through her use of origami, sculptures and installation pieces made using thin layers and artist books. Her work can be coined as delicate or dainty. The main themes she explores are portraiture, the self and nature. In 2017 as part of her Erasmus she was manning the Maltese Pavilion at Biennale D’Arte di Venezia. Artist Statement: For my dissertation I have chosen to work with the self-portrait in unconventional means. My own
identity is a topic I’ve worked with before but very simply. I believe a self-portrait speaks volumes about the artist, but what really enforces this is the way the work is created. I’ve always believed a pretty painting of myself would not do justice to who I am. When it comes to other artists that method of portrayal could work but I for me it wouldn’t make sense. In my practice I tend to favour more traditional mediums. For this project I am using methods that aren’t based in being traditional but the outcome looks that way. I am experimenting with photography, scanning, film and cyanotypes. These mediums have an element of uncertainty, as with namely film and cyanotypes the outcome is a surprise. I think this gives the images an authentic and raw aesthetic that can’t be replicated.
Cyanotype on Fabric
Self portrait
Concrete and Mixed Media Installation
Love as a Physical Form
Jeanette Dutton Student Bio:
Artist Statement:
Jeanette Dutton is a Malta based artist who works with a wide range of mediums. She has attended the Mcast Institute of the Creative Arts for several years and is currently reading for a B.A Honors in Fine Arts. In 2018, Dutton exhibited a series of paintings titled ‘Vesanus’ at a restaurant named ‘Coogi’s’ located in Mdina. She also exhibited some artworks in small café’s and has big plans after finishing her studies.
Jeanette Dutton enjoys working with tangible materials such as plaster, stone, clay, wood, resin and various other mediums. Her style tends to lean mostly towards surrealism although she shifts between styles. Dutton enjoys exploring the emotional through visual, giving the usually unseen a physical manifestation. Other commonly explored concepts include the human body as organs tend to be used a lot in her works. While the hearts, brains and eyeballs that she produces are unusual her work does not take a grotesque form.
Installation - Bricks and Projection
Triq ir-Rebha
Lorraine Galea Student Bio:
Artist Statement:
Lorraine Galea is currently reading for a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Institute of Creative Arts in Mosta. In 2015, Galea was the stage artist for the play ‘Butterflies are Free’ at the St. James Cavalier in Valletta produced by the FM Theatre Productions, under the observation of the Italian artist Romualdo Moretti. In June 2018, she took part in a workshop in Rome done by the artist Elly Smallwood.
What is it we’re communicating, how are we communicating, how do we actually realize our human potential? Interested in humanism and the freedom that comes with it, Galea explores the relationship between public artwork and audiences. Individual freedom is not questioned until it becomes oppressed. In this study, the different experiments were set in a specific location in Rabat, being a place, which engages various communities. Various media are used in the process of the work, being that public art is a shapeless category. The development in Galea’s work is necessarily documented, as with time, that is the only thing that remains.
Michela Grech Student Bio: Michela Grech was born in Malta in 1996. Being dedicated to the creative sectors of education, from a very early age, Michela focused on studying the visual arts. Currently she is finishing her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in fine arts at MCAST Art and Design. Her work revolves around human behaviour, her own and others’, both on an introspective, and on a social level. Michela works with various media however, focusing mainly on painting, drawing, and photography. Artist Statement: Michela Grech was born in Malta in 1996. Currently she is reading for a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fine Arts, at MCAST Art and Design. Michela’s main source of inspiration lies within a childhood of psychologically aware
environments which thought her about introspection, therapy and behaviour. This inclined Michela to be vigilant and intrigued by the human psyche. In fact, Michela’s work revolves around human behaviour, her’s and other’s, both from an introspective, and from a social perspective. For this reason, it is common to see other individuals’ work included in her process of creation. She works with painting, drawing, and photography. All her works are characteristically vibrant, textured and with a colourfully varied palette, typically in large scales. Michela’s work plays with the limitations between semi-abstract and abstract, always trying to comprehend the essence of an element away from its figuration.
Painting / Drawing
Subject
Ceramics - White Erthenware
Muntanji
Norma Cutajar Student Bio: I am a Maltese artist, who is currently reading a BA in Fine Arts at MCAST ICA. I was brought up in a family enjoying an artistic background particularly related to music. This background helped me to develop a natural passion for art, and even to opt for art as a profession. Although I am particularly attached to Ceramics I have always been interested within different disciplines of art. This helped me to have an interdisciplinary approach to art, and to open myself to different inspirations Artist Statement: Norma’s inspired by the medium’s flexibility and uniqueness which led her to evolve the hidden authentic layers of ceramics through the notion of Embodiment. As an artist
Norma chose this notion since there is the beauty of exploring contrasts along the change of understanding the artist himself. After Norma explored a range of perspectives of distinct art critics, its apparent that embodiment is a common factor which links different disciplines ranging from Philosophy to Psychology. Embodiment is considered as an approach in in-being and in-seeing as a psychological process, two subjective approaches which are linked to the unity of body, soul and spirit. This involves the insights of the artist who interprets the object, while in-being involves the artist’s integration of details of the objects of in-seeing within his own identity.
Venice Castrogiovanni Student Bio: Venice finds a deeper connection within the sensitive outlook of the figures, because she relates her own personality with the context of her work. She turns away from the idealized forms of the body, and in contrast she approach them from a minimalist and simplified point of view. This idea has emerged from a personal appreciation in Prehistorical arts, in particular the early figurines of the Venus. Artist Statement: Throughout the investigation the aim of the artist was to use a documentative approach, to be able to analyze and present different documentation of past experienced emotions, in comparison to nostalgia in the present. The artwork is considered as a realistic,
emotional, information rather than an aesthetical piece. The materials that Castrogiovanni has collected are basically personal belongings, and family photographs, that has assisted the project according to the idea. Castrogiovanni’s studies are an essential sector towards her art, as her general knowledge allows her to explore and develop innovative results. a social perspective. For this reason, it is common to see other individuals’ work included in her process of creation. She works with painting, drawing, and photography. All her works are characteristically vibrant, textured and with a colourfully varied palette, typically in large scales. Michela’s work plays with the limitations between semiabstract and abstract, always trying to comprehend the essence of an element away from its figuration.
Mixed media Installation
Nostalgia
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The Online Application periods for the upcoming academic year 2019/20 will be as follows:
Monday 22nd July till Sunday 04th August Monday 02nd September till Sunday 08th September Friday 27th September till Wednesday 02nd October 2019 Access to the online application portal will be through the MCAST website, as from Monday 22nd July. Those who will be submitting an Application and are in possession of a National ID Number need to have a valid E-ID in order for them to apply for an MCAST full-time courses. Prospective applicants who do not have a National ID, will also be able to apply online. Further information about the online application process will be available by the second week of July. The conditions for application are found in the MCAST prospectus – an online version of which can be accessed through: https://www.mcast.edu.mt/mcast-prospectus-2019-2020/