Publications, talks and research papers

Mercury Rising: art-washing through real estate (2024) Review. Malta Today.

Mercury in Retrograde: social mobility through real estate (2024) Review. Malta Today.

The Greatest Painting (2024) Talk. The Malta Postal Museum, Valletta.

Contemporary Ceramics Ancient Histories (2024) Curatorial note. CLAY / CRAFT / CONCEPT catalogue. Malta Society of Arts, Valletta.

Gabriel Buttigeg’s Narratives for Postmodern Love (2024) Exhibition review. Times of Malta.

A Brief Typology of Dust (2024) Catalogue essay. Unknown Prescription. Austin Camilleri, Maria Frendo. Il-Ħaġar Gems Series, Il-Ħaġar, Victoria.

The Third Way: Keit Bonnici’s Thirty-six Millimetre (2023) Review. Malta Artpaper Issue 24.

Alex Dalli’s Il-Ħabba tal-Għajn (2023) Curatorial note. Il-Ħabba tal-Għajn Catalogue. Malta Society of Arts, Valletta.

Soapbox Musings: on Norbert Francis Attard’s Being and Event (2023) Panel discussion with Maria Eileen Fsadni, Julien Vinet and Sam Vassallo. R Gallery, Sliema.

Sacred Fruit: on Ġulja Holland’s A New Gothic (2023) Panel discussion with Nikki Petroni, Charlie Cauchi, Maria Theuma and Andrew Borg Wirth. Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta.

THE END: the sanitisation of words hands and politics (2023) Prologue essay. Soap to Think With. Norbert Francis Attard. Norbert Attard Foundation. Valletta Contemporary Gallery.

What does it mean for Art to be Socially Engaged? (2023) Talk. Impact of the Arts: symposium on culture, participation and social engagement. AMASS: University of Malta.

The Cloud of Unknowing (Matthew’s Dream) (2024)

Tales of an Aimless Summer: Ryan Falzon’s Sajf (2023) Book review. Times of Malta.

GROUNDWATERS: outsider perspectives and visions of elsewhere (2022) Curatorial note. GROUNDWATERS Catalogue. Arts Council Malta and Valletta Contemporary Gallery.

An Alchemy of Disruption: outsider art in the white cube (2022) Article. Malta Artpaper Issue 20.

Floating World: an island where limestone pretends to grow (2022) Prologue essay. On an Island Where Limestone Pretends to Grow: a collection of limestone home objects. Floating World and Malta Society of Arts, Valletta.

Art Additives: Sea Sunset Moon (2022) Conversation with Kurt Borg and Giulia Privitelli. Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta.

Sea Sunset Moon: variations on solitude (2022) Curatorial note. Sea Sunset Moon Catalogue. Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta.

The Sound of You Dreaming (2022) Sound piece. Recorded by Adrian Camilleri and Ally Smith. Fondazzjoni Kreattivita.

Darkness at Noon (2021) Curatorial note. Darkness at Noon Catalogue. Arts Council Malta.

Two Places Two Truths: Anna Calleja’s HOMEBOUND at the Malta Society of Arts (2021) Exhibition review. Artpaper Online.

From Skyros to Paris: the dialectic between the individual and the collective in art influenced by the Graeco-Roman world (2021) Peer reviewed research essay. Melita Classica. J. Gatt ed. The Malta Classics Association: University of Malta.

The Mdina Cathedral Museum: a monumental edifice of baroque splendour (2020) Book review. The Journal of Baroque Studies. F. Ciappara ed. The Institute of Baroque Studies: University of Malta.

Aesthetics, Engagement, Resistance (2020) Peer reviewed research essay. The APS Mdina Contemporary Art Biennale. N. Petroni, G. Schembri-Bonaci eds. Horizons.

‘Of What Am I the Instrument?’ the foundations of the Neo-Baroque in science, faith and art (2020) Talk. Lockdown Mini-Talks lecture series. Malta University Historical Society: University of Malta.

Pawlu Grech: a surgeon of the real (2019) Programme note. Departures, Pawlu Grech, a Life in Perspective Catalogue. Arts Council Malta.

WG Sebald and the Poetics of Total Destruction (2019) Peer reviewed research essay. Antae Vol 6 No 1. A. Aquilina ed. Department of English: University of Malta.

The Baroque Consciousness as Uncertainty (2019) Talk. Presented as part of the MA In Baroque Studies lectures. Mdina Metropolitan Cathedral Archives.

In Conversation with Monika Beisner (2017) Interview. Threads Vol 5. L. Scicluna ed. Student’s Philosophy Society.

The Sublime in Abstract Art and Poetry (2017) Conference paper. Malta/Galway Graduate Philosophy Conference. National University of Ireland, Galway.

Japanese Aesthetics: Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi and the tea ceremony (2016) Peer reviewed research essay. Threads Vol 4. L. Scicluna ed. Student’s Philosophy Society.

The Art and Practice of Mandala (2015) Peer reviewed research essay. Threads Vol 3. L. Zammit ed. Student’s Philosophy Society.

Fragment from The Sound of You Dreaming (2022)

Clay Craft Concept (2024)