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Malta Oskura
Dark Malta Festival – Art Exhibition Malta Oskura, is the Art Exhibition linked to the Dark Malta Music Festival. This underground festival promotes Gothic, Industrial and Metal music. The festival is organised every year by local DJ Hades; aka Rene Farrugia. For the second year running, the festival was accompanied by a Visual Arts exhibition.…
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Painting in Prague
This week I was in Prague, Czech Republic, representing Malta as the selected artist to create a collaborative artwork for the project of the Wall of Freedom and Energy on the Lennon Wall in the Malá Strana. This event was organised to celebrate the Presidency of the Czech Republic of the European Council, curated by…
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Spring has sprung!
This spring has started on a somewhat rainy mood here in Malta, but that has not stopped me from launching my vibrant Bettija’rt creation for the Delicata Winery Exhibition and Competition! Over January and February I was working on the transformation of a decommissioned barrique given to me by Delicata winery, as one of the…
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Collaboration with Eco Marine Malta
The collaboration between Sara Pace Artist and Eco Marine Malta started out around a year and a half ago from a shared passion for the sea and a deep respect for nature in general. Having an environmental science background Sara used it to her advantage to work closely with marine biologist Patrizia Patti in creating…
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Alice and the Absolem
I have been intrigued by Alice in Wonderland ever since I was a young girl and happened to come across the Disney film being shown on Italian television. Being a Maltese kid in the 90s it was the norm for us to watch TV in Italian – learning the language in the process, and getting…
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Project with the Elderly in the Community
In April 2017 one of my Art Students at the school where I teach won a competition organised by the St Vincent De Paul Home for the Elderly in Luqa Malta. Due to winning this competition our school was tasked with creating a project with the elderly, in which our students and the elderly would…
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Artist’s Residency in Ireland 2017
This year I was awarded the Residency+ programme at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan co.Clare, Ireland. The award I won was funded by the Arts Council in Malta through the Cultural Export Fund for artists who wish to travel and explore their art further afield. I chose to revisit the Burren College of…
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SAMOC Workshop with Deep Shelter Project
I have been working with Pam Baldacchino, artist-in-residence and project leader of Deep Shelter, on a series of works for the Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre in Malta. We’ve been collaborating together through a series of outside and studio based workshops since August 2016. We started out by conducting an outside workshop which consisted of…
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Fiera Arte Forlì, Venezia – 17-19 March 2017
Hello! I’ve been radio silent for a long while, but as I promised you all at the beginning my blog will be infrequent, but will take place 😉 I have been working away both at my studio and at managing my work, and finally I have positive results to show for it! My work shall be exhibited at the Venice…
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Washed Ashore
I have just completed an assignment for a Nature Photography Course that I was taking at the Centre for Liberal Arts at the University of Malta. Along with this course I was also following two other courses about Marine Environment and Environmental Issues and Challenges. The sea has always been a center of inspiration for…